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<br />Scope of the Project <br />The purpose oftrus project is to study the following factors: <br /> <br />1. The future service needs and budget for those needs over the next 20 years given <br />development and population projections. Service needs include public safety, <br />administration, recreation, and public works efforts to maintain or enhance service levels <br />for Elk River citizens. <br />2. Future capital needs including street maintenance and reconstruction, equipment, facilities, <br />and parks. <br />3. The future tax base for the City. <br />4. Mix of types and valuations of different development, particularly in the gravel mining area <br />and the commercial reserve. <br /> <br />The process will include participation from all of the City department heads and the city manager. <br />Department heads will forecast infrastructure costs and staffing needs for the future development. <br />Department heads will also be individually be encouraged to select two or three cities in a similar <br />development pattern or are more fully developed to give specific examples of development types and <br />resulting service impacts. For example, can staffing levels be a function of a per capita analysis, per <br />capita and number of s.f. of retail analysis, or is another model more viable? Are there efficiencies <br />that other larger cities are using at this time? Other cities can also offer insights into options to pay for <br />some of the infrastructure development that the City of Elk River may not be utilizing. <br /> <br />Ehlers will work with department heads to gather the data and organize it into a manageable <br />spreadsheet for comment by all parties involved. There is a danger in these types of studies that <br />participants begin to suffer from information overload due to the difficulties in "predicting the future". <br />We will avoid this information overload by narrowing the scope of future scenarios to a maximum of <br />three. For example, the scenarios could include: <br />1. Build-out in 15 years and Future Development Mix of 50% Higher Value Commerical/20% <br />Residential/30% Industrial. <br />2. Build-out in 20 years and Future Development Mix of 50% Residential/20% <br />Industrial/30% Higher Value Commercial <br />3. Build-out in 10 year and Future Development the Same Mix and Values as Current <br />Development Types <br />