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with iPADs reducing the time to enter in hand written inspection forms and automatically archiving
<br />records in a manner compliant with data practices.
<br />Parks and Recreation leases Community Center space that was once underutilized to the Ramsey County
<br />Library. While this arrangement provides little to no revenue, the County paid for all of the
<br />improvements, staff, maintenance, and utilities associated with this service so that residents get the
<br />benefit of having a library in town. This relationship also fosters great sense of place principles,
<br />ensuring steady community traffic thru the NBCC.
<br />OVERVIEW
<br />The City Manager’s recommended General Fund Budget for 2017 is $15,106,600. As a balanced budget, this
<br />represents a 6.31% increase, over 2016. Additional details on the budget drivers (both revenues and expenses)
<br />are described in the following paragraphs. The City Manager’s budget does ask for increased spending in a few
<br />areas of City operations. Staff has worked very hard to mitigate potential tax impacts. When comparing even
<br />the 2017 proposed tax levy for New Brighton to our comparable cities and other cities that have been added, it
<br />is easy to see that New Brighton is still operating efficiently. The recommended 2017 tax levy is $7,900,000, as
<br />opposed to the 2016 tax levy of $7,192,000. Should this budget and tax levy be adopted by the Council, the
<br />median valued home in New Brighton would pay $67 a month in property taxes. By comparison, in 2016 the
<br />median valued home owner paid $60 a month in property taxes.
<br />The first table below shows a comparison of neighboring communities and New Brighton’s comparable
<br />communities that have been historically used for benchmarking of all kinds. What is most noteworthy about the
<br />information in this table is New Brighton’s data is for 2017. All other comparable cities data is from 2016. Once
<br />all of the 2017 proposed figures are known, the table will be updated. But, one can assume that as other cities
<br />implement increases to their levies, no matter how modest, New Brighton will remain among the lowest in this
<br />comparison.
<br />City Population 2016 Levy LGA Cable & Xcel
<br />Franchise
<br />Fees
<br />Total Per
<br />Capita
<br />Golden Valley 20,683 $19,813,300 $254,400 $1,050,000 $21,117,700 $1,021
<br />St. Anthony 8,226 7,722,500 523,000 107,100 8,352,600 1,015
<br />Richfield 36,041 18,820,600 2,084,100 2,221,000 23,125,700 642
<br />Columbia Heights 19,758 10,658,200 1,517,600 0 12,175,800 616
<br />New Hope 20,904 10,663,000 616,200 438,500 11,717,700 561
<br />Roseville 34,476 18,179,720 0 475,000 18,654,720 541
<br />Maplewood 38,950 19,435,200 659,000 950,000 21,044,200 540
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