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Benchmarks Every year, the City calculates specific functional costs and specific revenues on a per capita basis. This allows the City to compare with 25 other Twin City metro communities with populations over 24,000. The source of the comparative data is from the 1999 annual report compiled and distributed by the Office of the State Auditor of Minnesota. Despite the limitations of such comparisons, such benchmarks continual to track generally costs for our citizens as compared to other similar communities. The dark area represents the City of Roseville's measurements in each of the following graphs. The City of Roseville ranks in the lower one half of the 25 cities in revenue per capita with respect to property taxes and state aids. 500 400 300 200 100 Property Taxes and State Aids Per Capita Taxes and Aids Based on 1999 State Auditor's Report While operations and local needs vary from one community to another and a per capita measure is somewhat limiting, this bench marking technique does provide the City Council with an overall comparison measure. For specific departmental operations, more precise benchmarks or measures of performance appear and are discussed within the Department Summaries Section of this document. Other methods for evaluating effectiveness of city services include periodic community surveys conducted by a professional survey firm. On the following pages are charts that provide a comparative benchmark for each of the seven functional areas of the City's operations. These areas are: Fire Services, Street Maintenance, Police Services, General Government, Parks and Recreation, Community Development and All Operations. These seven areas comprise the majority of areas for which general governmental services are provided to the community and for which property taxes comprise a substantial portion of revenue support. IV- 1 -A