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2019-09-17 Special Meeting with Ada County CommissionersEIDIAN DAMD CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING AGENDA City Council Chambers 33 East Broadway Avenue Meridian, Idaho Tuesday, September 17, 2019 at 3:30 PM 1. Roll -Call Attendance A. Meridian City Council X Anne Little Roberts Joe Borton 4:03pmTy Palmer X Treg Bernt X Genesis Milam X Luke Cavener X Mayor Tammy de Weerd B. Ada County Commissioners X Diana Lachiondo 3:4opm Rick Visser X Kendra Kenyon 2. Discussion Topics A. City of Meridian: Meridian Comprehensive Plan Update B. Ada County: Best Practices and Emerging Trends - Managing Growth Through Comprehensive Plans, Area of City Impact Agreements and Title VIII and Title IX Agreements Meeting Adjourned at 4:32 PM. Meridian City Council - Ada County Joint September 17, 2019. A Meeting of the Meridian City Council was called to order at 3:32 p.m., Tuesday, September 17, 2019, by Mayor Tammy de Weerd. Members Present: Tammy de Weerd, Luke Cavener, Genesis Milam, Ty Palmer, Anne Little Roberts and Treg Bernt. Members Absent: Joe Borton. Item 1: Roll-call Attendance: Roll call. A. Meridian City Council X__ Anne Little Roberts _ _ Joe Borton X__ Ty Palmer X__ Treg Bernt __X___Genesis Milam __X___Lucas Cavener __X__ Mayor Tammy de Weerd B. Ada County Commissioners __X___ Diana Lachiondo __ X___Rick Visser __X____ Kendra Kenyon De Weerd: I would like to begin our meeting by welcoming everyone in attendance. Thank you for joining us. Sorry about that. Are you good now? Okay. Thank you for joining us. For the record it is Tuesday, September 17th. It's 3:32. We will start with roll call attendance, Mr. Clerk. Item : Adoption of Agenda De Weerd: Thank you. And I do want to start out the -- our agenda has the discussion topics. I will ask in a moment for approval of the agenda. It was not too long ago I met with Commissioner Kenyon about coordinating our growth plans. This is something that we did a number of years ago in working in collaboration with the county and our surrounding cities and she called a meeting that three cities were in attendance at. It's nice to see that someone with an agenda actually follows it. So, thank you for that. Kenyon: And kudos also to Commissioner Lachiondo for locking arms and right there with me every step of the way. De Weerd: That's awesome. We appreciate you being here and starting a dialogue with the Mayor and City Council. We greatly appreciate it. Greatly. Okay. Council, I do want to ask for a motion to approve the agenda. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 24, 2019 – Page 5 of 257 Meridian City Council -Ada County Commissioners Joint Meeting September 17, 2019 Page 2 of 19 Cavener: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Cavener. Cavener: I move we approve the agenda as presented. Milam: Second. De Weerd: I have a motion a second to approve the agenda is printed. All those in favor say aye. All ayes. MOTION CARRIED: FOUR AYES. TWO ABSENT. Item 2: Discussion Topics A. City of Meridian: Meridian Comprehensive Plan Update De Weerd: Okay. Our first item under discussion topics is an update on our Meridian Comprehensive Plan. I will turn this over to Caleb. As he makes his way up to the podium, we did have a dinner last night as a debrief with the committee -- the steering committee that has been working on this 14 month process. So, I want to first give my kudos to staff. This has been a very comprehensive community outreach and I did want our county commissioners that -- we submit this plan for your approval as well and -- and I think it's important you know the steps that have been taken to do community outreach, to involve our public members and -- and the steady work of our steering committee. They have met every week for the last 14 months. That's -- that's pretty incredible and we appreciate that the county had a representative as well on that steering committee. So, thank you for the representative you lent us for his participation and I will turn this over to Caleb. Hood: Thank you, Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, Commission Members. I should just let you keep going, Mayor. That was pretty good and you touched on some of the things Brian and I are going to -- De Weerd: I don't want to take away your thunder. Hood: So -- so -- so, we do want to provide you an update, as you well -- the Council knows and the commissioners may or may not know, you have had representation on this process -- throughout this process. Mitra started out and, then, handed the baton to David here in the last quarter or so and like the Mayor said, we have had 14 steering committee meetings, but we meet in between those, too, and talk technicalities outside of the steering committee meetings and -- and continue to coordinate some of the things we will talk about and -- and what shows up in the -- in the -- in the current draft of the Comprehensive Plan. So, in those discussions we thought it would be appropriate to bring everybody up to speed on where we are at in that process. So, I know there is only two items on your agenda, but they are pretty weighty items. We will try to do this as quickly as possible and still cover all the pertinent information. Please feel free to interrupt Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 24, 2019 – Page 6 of 257 Meridian City Council -Ada County Commissioners Joint Meeting September 17, 2019 Page 3 of 19 if need be. So, the current plan -- and this is mainly for folks in the audience. I think most everyone can understand what a comprehensive plan is, but maybe just a little bit of background. It is a visioning document for the city, how we intend to grow and develop over -- generally a 20 to 25 year time period. Meridian has grown quite rapidly since the current comp plan was adopted or at least most of the policies that were in the current plan was adopted. So, the City Council about 18 months ago directed staff to accelerate what we typically do every ten years or so, to move that up a couple of years and really go out to the community and understand who the people that are living and working here now, what their vision is for our community. So, that's what we have done, again, over the past 16, 18 months. The City of Meridian in our -- our current document -- and we envision this playing forward post adoption of a new plan, really has those forward looking vision statements into the body of the Comprehensive Plan and the things that talk about who we are as a community and what we call our existing conditions report. So, as our demographic information -- how many police stations we have or police officers and fire stations, parks, those types of things that are kind of backwards looking and, then, the meat of the plan is, again, the things that drive where we want to go as a -- as a community into the -- into the future. So, that process -- the city did hire a consultant to help us with this, Logan Simpson that's out of Fort Collins. They also had some subcommittee members. So, Leland and Associates and, then, Kittelson, who is -- who has some folks here in their Boise office to look at transportation corridor analysis. A lot of what they did -- what Logan Simpson helped us with was public involvement and a website that was developed and used throughout the process. Not only did they help track those comments and respond and draft the plan, but they also helped set up the steering committee agendas, came to maybe two-thirds of those and facilitated those discussions. We heard some comments last night in our dinner, kind of wrap up from the steering committee, how they really appreciated -- the members really appreciated having that point of contact and -- and keeping us on schedule and on track with those agendas. They -- the steering committee knew what they were to accomplish in the next month, what their goals were to keep -- keep us on this timeline that -- that had been established. So, they were great at facilitating and setting up those agendas. The steering committee -- again, as the Mayor has mentioned there is some points on the slide here with 22 members. I will also note we do have a handful -- or at least a few of them in the audience tonight, so thank you for your service and -- and -- and attending this afternoon. De Weerd: I'm sorry. First, for the record, Mr. Visser -- Commissioner Visser joined us and I would like anyone that was on the steering committee, if you would raise your hand. Okay. A great number of them. Thank you for being here with us tonight. Hood: And it really was the steering committee makeup while there was varied backgrounds and expertise and experiences and some folks that were newer members of the community and some that were lifelong residents, it was a great mix of professional experience and residents and realtors and just everybody. I mean I -- part of the conversation -- and we don't need to rehash everything we talked about last month or through that process, but just, again, a variety of perspectives and the passion, though, that everybody had for our community to want to move it forward into the next generations was just -- it was exciting. So, school district was also there and -- and -- and Ada County Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 24, 2019 – Page 7 of 257 Meridian City Council -Ada County Commissioners Joint Meeting September 17, 2019 Page 4 of 19 Highway District. I think those are two key critical pieces, along with -- with county and other stakeholders, but they were also there. I didn't know if -- I don't know if Carl raised his hand or not there, but he represented COMPASS in that -- in that process. We took some of those members, then, and broke out into some focus groups and this is where we got a little more technical in some of those elements that we were hearing from our community in some of the early phases that were most important. Community design, economic development, housing and transportation. So, again, they dug in a little bit deeper, had a series -- I think most of those groups met three, maybe one of them four times to really get into some more of those details. They had a packet and, again, some things that -- they were really charged with looking at policies for the city going forward. The draft plan that was submitted last week for the Planning and Zoning Commission's consideration really is the steering committee's recommended plan that is based on our community's input. So, that's what we will be going through, that -- that public hearing process here next month. Public outreach. We tried -- we really did and I think we are pretty successful. We tried to get the word out. We worked with our communications folks in the Mayor's Office to tweet about it, put it on Facebook and NextDoor and in newsletters and our website and everywhere we could. We went to -- I don't know, Brian, off top of your head -- I don't know how many events -- 20 events maybe and in parks all last summer, into this summer, try to go where the people were at, so we could engage with them, point them to the website if they couldn't make it out, but we really did try to understand from people what their values were, what their vision for the community is and, then, give them some choices and opportunities and really kind of understand that, again, as we translate that into some policies and a draft plan. I will just point out -- I mean the Council was great in the early phases saying, staff, you need to do this, go hire a consultant and go and we did have Treg -- Councilman Bernt and I saw him raise his hand. He has been an ex officio member on the steering committee this last quarter, but aside from that, the Council has largely been not involved in this. This is a community driven plan that isn't, you know, the Council Members and the Mayor saying, boy, this better be in the plan and I will even -- to Councilman Bernt's -- he hasn't really said that either in this, said, boy, that plan better include this. So, it really is our community members plan as best we can tell thus far. So, we tried to go out to the public quite a bit. Timeline. I don't know that I will spend a whole bunch of time on this slide. I will just point out, again, we did values first and, then, vision and that concluded with -- in November of 2018 a vision document. So, this document includes just kind of what we heard for the first couple of phases of planned development. It's -- you know, it's a little more -- it's not policy, it's a little -- a little more pie in the sky if you will. But it's things we heard from -- from folks. I think they are achievable. So, maybe it's not pie in the sky. But just some more clouds, maybe that's what I was thinking of -- of sky. But this document that really says, you know, what -- where do we want to go as a community and, then, we are coming up to the finish line here. October 17th is actually when the first public hearing before our Planning and Zoning Commission is scheduled. De Weerd: Caleb? Hood: Yeah. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 24, 2019 – Page 8 of 257 Meridian City Council -Ada County Commissioners Joint Meeting September 17, 2019 Page 5 of 19 De Weerd: The document you just showed, if you can e-mail that to the county we can get it to the commissioners, so you can see those. Hood: So, again, I didn't spend much time on the timeline, but since May of 2017 we have been -- we have been going and -- and our directive was to basically have it done by the end of this year, because that's my elected officials now and that will change beginning in January. So, we had that direction. My Meridian vision -- again, here is that document. That's a lot of what I will e-mail to you all are these five themes that were -- that were -- that came about through that and these -- all of those elements, then, that you see at the -- at the bottom of this slide are the state required elements that each comprehensive plan address. So, we have -- we have housed those and each one of these themes. All the elements are -- are considered that the state requires and they fit nicely into one of those themes, although some of them kind of cross over themes, like pathways can be in connected and it can also be in livable, because it's part of our park system, too. So, there is a little bit of that. But -- but for the most part we think it's organized well and pretty understandable for the public, but I guess time will tell and the public will tell us how we did with some of that. So, I'm going to let Brian, who just kudos to Brian, he's -- he's been our -- our de facto -- I shouldn't say de facto -- unofficial project manager. He's really kept this thing on track, along with Logan Simpson, making sure we stay on -- on task and moving this project forward. So, thank you, Brian. McClure: One minor note on the previous slide. The 17 elements that are required under the -- under the state guidance that aren't on that list are addressed in the ECR which Caleb previously mentioned, the existing conditions report. So, airports, for example, which we don't have and we don't want one and the ECR says that. So, one of the things we are doing in the new plan is a new format. We will, of course, have the required pdf, because we need to have that sort of record copy and some people just like to print it off. But the thing we are doing that's different and new and modernizing is a web based version of that plan. It's entirely live text, live images, live GIS. You can -- it works on a phone, it works on a tablet or a computer, any format you want to use it on. Feel like it's going to be pretty engaging. Policies are interactive. You can search by them, sort by them, look by chapter. You can really play with it that way if you're looking for something and we are, honestly, quite excited about it. So, that's the big thing with the -- with the new format. Another thing that we are doing with the new -- with the new plan and why we have our Board of County Commissioners here is some changes to the area of city impact. The notable one here you see on your screen relates to our southern boundary with Kuna. Since the '90s we have had some push and pull down there and we hope that this new plan that we will have to kind of put that to rest and move past it. So, you can expect a concurrent application with the city of Kuna to the county after we adopt the plan for you to adopt it as well. So, we really hope that will be -- that will be finished. I guess one other note there is we do have some smaller changes kind of around the other edges, with Boise most notably. We have worked with them to identify those and draw those, so -- Hood: So, one of the tools we asked the consultant team to develop for us -- and this won't be part of our Comprehensive Plan, but it will help us understand a little bit better Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 24, 2019 – Page 9 of 257 Meridian City Council -Ada County Commissioners Joint Meeting September 17, 2019 Page 6 of 19 maybe the timing and implementation of our Comprehensive Plan, is a -- what we call a service impact tool. So, it took a lot of the infrastructure, either planned or existing infrastructure and mapped it out, so you could see on a parcel by parcel basis in our area of city impact the readiness of any one parcel to develop. I'm not going to list all the things that this will basically tell you are available or adjacent to, but things like pathways, water, sewer, schools and roads. But, again, it's not comprehensive. So, it doesn't say, you know, power loads or -- or electricity, how close that is or your irrigation water or those types of things. But it does help the city at least understand where development maybe should happen or could happen, because those things that make that next development happen are either right there or are pretty close. So, you can kind of see in a heat map and, yeah, there is schools close by, the roads are improved and you got sewer and water in front of the property. Look for any undeveloped or un -- undeveloped or underdeveloped properties in this general vicinity to develop soon. It's -- and we should point this out, because this was a point at our steering committee meetings. It doesn't help the Council or elected officials, appointed officials, determine if a project is appropriate or not for our community. Again, it's meant just to share information and data about where those services are or if they are in, for example, ACHD's five your work plan, hey, that road is planned to be widened in the next two or three years. So, maybe it is okay to approve this project, because there is, you know, relief for that roadway coming or things like that. Or we have in our CIP as a city to build a new park there or those types of things. I do want to use the last two bullets here. It could help the city define where it may grow next and where those opportunities exist. One of the things we heard from the public going out, again, to parks and these other things was -- I don't know that too many people use the word chaos, but it -- but there is just a lot of development happening everywhere all the time it feels like in Meridian and to some degree that's true. So, we really took that to heart and thought, well, let's have a conversation, then, with our Council about strategically growing in areas where, again, our response times for fire and police are adequate, where we have parks, where we have school capacities, those types of things. We haven't taken it to that degree, but this tool, with some tweaks, could help you define an area, then, and say this is where we should grow next and grow that out to a certain percentage and, then, grow to this area next. So, those are some of the future conversations we are likely to have. Again, this tool doesn't get you there, but it can help inform some of those conversations and we are having some similar conversations countywide with others -- other cities in the county about how -- what -- we don't really like to use the term smart growth, but strategically growing. Again, let's -- let's do this, so we are not stretching all of our resources in different directions simultaneously. Let's try to maybe even develop incentives. I know it sounds a little crazy with how much we are growing now, but incentivize developing in these areas and maybe some disincentives in other areas that we aren't necessarily so excited for those areas to grow. So, more to come on that, but that's -- that's one of the things that, again, we heard from the community. And, then, in the similar vein coordinating those service needs with not only the county, but with ACHD and the schools. Hey, if we all get on the same page and say let's grow -- grow over here, can you build your next school there? Can you widen the roads over there? We are looking to grow and extend our services, sewer and water, et cetera., out there. So, again, that's not part of the plan necessarily, but that's some of the Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 24, 2019 – Page 10 of 257 Meridian City Council -Ada County Commissioners Joint Meeting September 17, 2019 Page 7 of 19 things that are -- there is some policy statements to say explore those types of opportunities. De Weerd: Commissioner. Lachiondo: Quick question. Thank you. Just sort of in stark relief here -- and I don't want to go too far down a rabbit hole, but could you give me a flavor of how many enclaves you have within Meridian city limits? Hood: Commissioner -- Mayor, Commissioner, I -- I didn't do a count. There are several though. Do you have an idea, Brian, what the number is? I mean there is -- there is whole subdivisions that are within -- that are enclaves surrounded by city limits in Meridian. De Weerd: Caleb, I think we did a presentation to the county commissioners a couple years ago that we could get you that PowerPoint presentation. It shows you a lot of that information and some of the challenges that we have had, too. Lachiondo: Thank you. De Weerd: Mr. Bernt. Bernt: I need to clarify for those who weren't part of the steering committee, this is -- this is a document -- or this is a tool that will be used internally only. This is not something that someone can log onto and see on the internet -- or it's available for developers or builders or customers. Hood: Correct. Madam Mayor, Councilman Bernt, yeah, we envision using this, essentially, for Council Members. The table that you see in your staff reports now would, essentially, have the same information, which is for a pretty picture up here, but, essentially, it will tell you how far your sewer line is away or how far your water is, what the nearest park is, what the nearest school capacity -- you know, schools are with their capacity and those types of things. So -- correct. It's an internal tool, although some of that information will be shared externally. So, yeah, it's available. Any other questions on this tool? De Weerd: Commissioner Kenyon? Kenyon: Madam Chair -- or Madam Mayor, thank you. Is there a fiscal component to this? Hood: So, good question, Madam Mayor, Commissioner. So, no, not directly anyways. We have worked with our Finance Department in looking at fiscal impact of approving certain types of development, looking at densities and, again, what would those services be in -- in the near term and in the long term. This does not tell you -- although we get Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 24, 2019 – Page 11 of 257 Meridian City Council -Ada County Commissioners Joint Meeting September 17, 2019 Page 8 of 19 from the county values of property, does not tell you what you can anticipate as far as revenue or expenditures, but you could build some of those things into this. De Weerd: And, Commissioner, I believe that the county is working on such a tool and we are excited to -- to see what that is and how we can play a part in it. I think it will be useful for all of us. Cavener: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Cavener. Cavener: Caleb, back to the surface impact tool. I'm curious. Is there a reason why we aren't making this available to the public? Is it a technological limitation or is there another reason why we -- I don't feel like that's our intent to keep the door shut -- Hood: No. Cavener: -- to the public and so I'm just trying to wrap my head around as to why they wouldn't be able to access it. McClure: Mayor, Councilman Cavener, so the big reason there is a lot of information in there can't be shown by state code. So, address information, property information, that's limited. The other thing is it runs on our servers using the full load of all that data and we just can't make it available. Cavener: Thank you. Hood: And I should clarify. I mean we can share this type of information, you just as a public can't log in and look at this like in realtime the same information that we can look at and manipulate and -- and interpret. So, it's still available, but it's not -- not to the same degree staff has it available. Cavener: Madam Mayor. And, Caleb, I think that we were getting to the same place. I just wanted to make sure that we were clarifying it wasn't a case of, sorry, public, you're not allowed to see this, there are many extreme circumstances and the bulk of the information that's shared in this tool the public wouldn't have ready access and availability. Hood: Right. Cavener: Thank you. Hood: Okay. So, next steps. And I have already mentioned this, but our Planning and Zoning Commission hearing is scheduled for October 17. We envision that, then, moving on to city -- a City Council hearing shortly thereafter and, then, we get to work. I mean this has been work, it's been -- there has been some fun times in there, too. But it's -- we have been busy. But implementation is going to be -- I mean, right, you don't build a plan Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 24, 2019 – Page 12 of 257 Meridian City Council -Ada County Commissioners Joint Meeting September 17, 2019 Page 9 of 19 and, then, throw it up on the shelf, you got to work the plan and so we will be getting to work and working the plan over the next several years, so -- and that includes updating other plans Brian mentioned or renegotiating our Title 9 agreement with the county, some of the areas of city impact changes, but just that you recognize this plan as well and, then, as I said, the prioritization of those policies and looking at specific area plans, reviewing our code, maybe even some of the county code changes that help us get to where we would like to be as a -- as a community. So, I think -- anything else, Brian? McClure: No. Hood: So, that's -- that's what we had on our new Comprehensive Plan and we will stand for any questions. De Weerd: Okay. Commission or Council, any questions? Visser: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Yes, Commissioner Visser. Visser: Thank you, Mayor. Caleb, you stated in your presentation a little earlier that you're going to use incentives and disincentives. Could you go into that in a little bit of detail or possibly give us an illustration of that? Hood: Yeah. That was in the context of -- Madam Mayor, Commissioner Visser. Yeah, that -- that was in the context of potentially establishing areas where we would encourage growth or development to occur and where we aren't quite ready to see growth and development occur. Carrots and sticks -- incentives, disincentives. And we haven't developed them. I don't know what that even looks like. We have got a -- you know, there is some state code there we got to be careful with. Impact fees. We can't use those types of tools. And so it may be one or the other. It may just be incentives. Maybe it's something we do through our review process that says, hey, we can fast track you if you grow in this area, because we really want that in-fill to happen. I don't really know what disincentives look like. Just quite frankly we have talked about that even in our downtown. What can we do to get -- to incentivize growth where we want to see it happen and it's something we have struggled with developing a list of what is something that -- yeah. So, I don't know exactly where that goes, but I use that just to kind of show what -- what can we do. If we are going to draw these areas and say we want to grow there, well, that's all fine and good, but unless you can actually attract people there or detract developers there, it doesn't do any good to say, yeah, we would prefer it, but we don't bring anything to the table to partner with you. So, that's kind of TBD on -- on where that will go. TBD. B. Ada County: Best Practices and Emerging Trends - Managing Growth Through Comprehensive Plans, Area of City Impact Agreements and Title VIII and Title IX Agreements Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 24, 2019 – Page 13 of 257 Meridian City Council -Ada County Commissioners Joint Meeting September 17, 2019 Page 10 of 19 De Weerd: Any other questions? Okay. Thank you so much for your presentation. We appreciate your work. Okay. Item 2-B is through the county presentation on best practices, emerging trends, et cetera. Good evening. If you will, please, state your name. And you can pull those together or pick one or the other or whatever you would like. Mehta-Cooper: That way we get -- is my voice better. Especially with my Indian accent. Good afternoon, Madam Mayor, Members of the Meridian City Council. Madam Chair, Members of Ada County Board, yes, this presentation looks a little different than what you may have seen. And that is because we are trying to simplify the message a little bit for people that are viewing it online. So, please, pardon me for changing a little bit of the content here and there, but it is -- the content is exactly the same. It's -- the look is a little different. So, my name is Mitra Mehta-Cooper and I'm the strategic planning manager with Ada county and with me today is David Corcoran. He is the community and regional planner, as well as -- for Ada county, as well as Carl Miller, who is principal planner at COMPASS. And so you heard from Meridian city staff how wonderful they have done on the Comprehensive Plan that they are updating currently and some of the struggles that they went through in managing growth, in making sure that the growth is happening in a more strategic manner where services are available. So, what we want to do today is broaden that discussion a little bit to first Ada county and, then, in Carl's presentation -- that presentation will be brought into Treasure Valley a little bit. So, we want to talk about what we believe -- why we need to talk about growth, because we feel that growth is going to occur. I think some of your earlier steering committee meetings people talked about it that, you know, it's -- it's inevitable. We live in an open society and people are going to have kids and move in and things would happen -- those will happen. We need to be just prepared to manage it in a strategic manner. So, I'm going to go over that a little bit. After me David will talk about where are we now, where is Ada county now when it comes to all service challenges and our service portfolio and what should we do to get ahead of that, rather than stay behind and always be reactive in our approach to growth. Next Carl, as I mentioned, COMPASS staff, they have done an excellent job in educating the region about growth. He is going to talk about how they are doing -- what new things they are doing and -- as part of their Communities In Motion process in 2050 that's going to take it to the next level for our region. And, then, of course, if you so elect there will be public comments after that. So, why are we here? What -- why are people moving to Ada county or why -- why is there such a draw to Ada county. We believe that there is a quality of life in Ada county that is very unique and people are drawn here and one of the major components of that quality of life is actually our open spaces here. Half of Ada county is in federal and state open spaces that encompasses our foothills, our greenbelt, everything that we all cherish about this area and also more than 8,000 acres in Ada county are dedicated for active recreation. That's something. You know, that makes it an exciting place to live. That defines quality of life. The second thing that makes Ada -- Ada county so lucrative for people to live in is it's a safe environment to raise families in Ada county and I'm sure city plays a huge role in making sure that that safety and that safe feeling is insured through a series of employees that cities provide, as well as the county provides, and you can see our sheriff employs more than 700 people as of today. EMS similarly, 150 or so. This is -- all defines the quality of life and sometimes we fail to recognize the juvenile courts and services are important piece of all this and let's not Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 24, 2019 – Page 14 of 257 Meridian City Council -Ada County Commissioners Joint Meeting September 17, 2019 Page 11 of 19 forget the coroner, which is also part of -- very important part of all of our life cycles and safety. And the last piece that defines our quality of life in our mind is our housing options. You can live in a ten story condo in downtown Boise and you can live on a ranchette in Star or Kuna and everything is within half a mile -- half an hour distance from each other and that makes it such a wonderful region as -- from a planner's perspective this is what we look for and underlying all this are the roads. We will not be able to serve all our communities if our roads were clogged up. We will not be able to go from our home in Star to work in downtown Boise if our roads were clogged up. We will not be able to enjoy our open spaces as much as we do if our roads were clogged up and you can imagine how the residents of Ada county feels as they are experiencing the growth that we have experienced in the recent years, as roads, as I mentioned, are getting fairly busy and our open spaces are getting chopped up into subdivisions, interspersed with agriculture and open space users in between and that is really creating a unique challenge for Ada county and we all know by now that our state's legislation on area of impact and annexation are such that sometimes it is really challenging to decide where the growth is going to be. The location and timing of growth is really challenging for us as a region to define and that's where I think some of our service provision challenges that we will be discussing later comes into play. So, Mayor Tammy, you were absolutely right, COMPASS has issued an RFP for fiscal impact analysis at the request of Ada County Board and many of its member agencies. We would want to look at the overall service portfolio of the entire region. What is it today and what is it going to be in the future and how we can pay for it. Do we have a deficit as a region or do we have surplus to pay for these services. So, we are very happy that COMPASS is working with her partnering agencies in development of fiscal impact analysis. In addition to that, Ada county commissioners recognize what I think Caleb and Brian outline for your comp plan, fiscal impact analysis or the service impact tool is not be all end all, we need to take the growth discussion to the next level after that fiscal impact analysis is available and Ada county commission has committed significant resources in fiscal year '20 to further that goal, allowing us a couple of additional positions, so I can do my job in a more effective manner, as well as some budget to make sure that we can continue these growth conversations. We are meeting with every city in this region and making sure that we are having these one-on-one dialogues with them and understanding what challenges they are facing when it comes to growth and how we can facilitate that as part of this growth conversation and to take it to the next level on October 16th I'm sure some of you may have received the invitations and some of you may be receiving soon -- we are going to have a coordinated growth conversation where we have invited region leaders, business development community, elected officials, state legislators and so on and so forth to have a meaningful conversation and say let's look at what we are doing and let's see where we need to go going forward to manage this growth in a fiscally responsible manner. So, with that I'm going to hand it over to David, who is going to talk about, you know, our realities when it comes to fiscal realities of service provision and -- De Weerd: Thank you, David. And let the record note that Mr. Palmer has joined us. Corcoran: Good afternoon, Madam Mayor, Madam Chair, Commissioners, Council Members, David Corcoran, community and regional planner with Ada county here just to Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 24, 2019 – Page 15 of 257 Meridian City Council -Ada County Commissioners Joint Meeting September 17, 2019 Page 12 of 19 talk briefly about the county's facilities and how growth has kind of impacted that process. So, what you have got in front of you on the -- on the screen there is a map of county facilities, where they are located right now. You can see they tend to be mostly located more towards sort of where Ada county used to have most of its development and it was moving to the west at a pace. The one thing that's interesting to me is some of the services that the county actually provides everybody, including city residents -- so, you know, when you call 911 that actually goes to the county no matter where you are within Ada county, what city you're in. The county provides all the drivers licensing. We provide sheriff patrols, even in the incorporated cities with their own police departments. We run the ambulance. We do weed, pest, mosquito abatement. We are responsible for the entire court system, basically. We run spaces, crisis center. The county elections. As Mitra mentioned, the county coroner, as well as the clerk, assessor and even the landfill for the county is all provided by the county no matter which -- Kenyon: Don't forget the fair. You missed the fair. Corcoran: And the fair. Most importantly the county fair. De Weerd: And I just want to remind everyone in the room that city residents are county residents, so there is no difference. Kenyon: County residents or city residents. De Weerd: No, they're not. They just use city services. Corcoran: So, where are we at right now. So, I will walk you through this map, and it should also be on your screen here. What this shows is sort of how the county's grown over the last 20 years. The purple number represents the current 2019 estimated population of every city in Ada county. The orange shows when COMPASS did their CRM process, what they initially expected the population would look like in 2040. The black shows where we are actually right now, where we expect the population to be in 2040. You can see a big difference there. So, Meridian has, obviously, grown quite a bit faster than was expected. Kuna is already blown past where we expect them to be in 2040 and so -- so, their, you know, population projection was almost doubled in that time. But what's really interesting is the -- the green at the bottom, which is the comprehensive plan build out population. So, you know, every city in the county and the county have a comprehensive plan that allocate some land use of every single inch of dirt in the county right? And so if you were to fill all of that up with the estimated population of each of those zones or designations, what you would end up with is that our comprehensive plans are actually speculating a population of about a million and a half people. So, even though we have 700,000 right now, we are almost planning in a way that -- or from a land use perspective that will accommodate 1.4 million. And just to show that in a table form, you can see we are growing faster than we had initially expected. But what does that mean? Right? So, these six maps here COMPASS put together as part of the CIM process and the top row there is population. The bottom row is employment density. The maps on the left show back in 2010 this is what we expected the density situation to look like. In the Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 24, 2019 – Page 16 of 257 Meridian City Council -Ada County Commissioners Joint Meeting September 17, 2019 Page 13 of 19 middle shows when COMPASS initially did the CIM 2040 process that was kind of how they expected growth to occur between 2012 and 2040. The map on the right shows what would happen if we built out every comprehensive plan to its fullest extent. So, you can see some pretty significant differences between the middle and the right column in terms of where density is. You know, as the 2040 growth forecasts were developed they assumed, you know, a certain level of density and then -- and, then, the comprehensive plan build outs assume, you know, something a little bit different. COMPASS definitely takes into account the comprehensive plans, it's just the development that's actually occurred has looked a little bit different than maybe initially speculated. That impacts county services, though right? So, as Mr. Hood mentioned we have -- right now we have got about 1,800 employees. We estimate that in order to accommodate the sort of 2040 build out projection we would need about 320 million dollars in county facility investment to get to that 2040 population projection on the 2040 growth. If we end up with the comprehensive plans all the way built out and we have a million and a half people in Ada county, to get from here to there and provide the same level of service we estimate it would cost around 690 million dollars. Well, some of these services are growth right? You know, no matter where growth happens in the county you're going to need roughly the same number of coroners right? It has no impact on where exactly within the county the development happens. But for the sheriff and the EMS especially, there is kind of some impact here right? So, the more the development is less dense and it happens in a way that is sort of scattered, that's potentially more sheriff resources, more ambulance resources that would need to come out and have a potential impact for driver's license facilities needs to go, how many patrols need to go out and various things of that nature. So, what should we do about all this? This is our current regional planning process and so you can see what we have got right now is the city and county land use plans, they are developed, and that informs COMPASS as they go through the hard work of putting together these growth projections and, then, they also calculate up the land use projections if, you know, the comprehensive plans were built out. These are happening at a slightly different pace. But, functionally, what's happening is that the county makes its facilities planning decisions and ACHD actually determines its capital improvements plan based on what is expected to happen in 2040, since that's the best we have in terms of immediate growth right? The land use plans may speculate, you know, they are planning for a potential of one and a half million people, something that's, you know, far later than -- than 2040. And I just want to turn over to Gallatin county, Montana, real quick which is where Bozeman is. They a few years ago experienced similar growth pressures to what we are seeing now. They are a -- they are a much smaller county, but -- but similar idea and they went through and they looked at a few different land use scenarios right? So, they said, okay, we can keep doing what we are doing, which is, basically, you know, allowing almost anything to happen or we can start to look at some different options for development and what they found, actually, was that they could cut their road and sheriff budgets in more than half if they, you know, with a slightly different development scenario. So, you know, Bozeman is -- is not Ada county right? Ada county is urbanizing at a much faster rate, but the same idea applies right? If we start to look at what the cost of actual development are and move forward from there, maybe we can, you know, come up with some ideas that could potentially, you know, still allow for that wonderful mix of housing and residences that everybody wants, but in a way that is, you know, a little bit Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 24, 2019 – Page 17 of 257 Meridian City Council -Ada County Commissioners Joint Meeting September 17, 2019 Page 14 of 19 more cost effective. And so with that I will turn it over for discussion. But, then, pass it on to -- we have got Carl here and he can talk a little bit more about the fiscal impact analysis process and how COMPASS is working on that. With that I can stand for any questions or pass it over. Thank you. De Weerd: Thank you, David. Council, any questions or Commissioners? Cavener: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Cavener. Cavener: Appreciate it. A couple questions for you. Do we know on average how many households or what that population is that's moving to Ada county from outside the county? What does -- what does that number look like? I mean quick math when I was -- with the charts it looks like from 2010 to 2017 the most recent is about 187,000 new people, assuming that everybody who moved Ada stayed in Ada county, just curious if you guys have metrics on households or numbers of people that are moving from outside our county into our county. Corcoran: Yeah. Madam Mayor, Councilman Cavener, I don't know that I know that number off the top of my head. I feel like that number has been produced, so we can look into getting that for you. Cavener: Yeah. I have be interested in seeing that. And, then, Madam Mayor, an additional question. The projections are startling I think probably for all of us. One that I kind of keyed in on was the growth in the sheriff's department. Obviously, as Meridian has grown we have built a pretty stellar police department and don't have to rely on the sheriff's department for police services like we did in the '80s. One would assume as other municipalities grow that reliance on the sheriff's department would also lesson. So, that number goes up is that related to the jail? Is that related to just growing the sheriff's department as -- along with growth? Help me understand that. Corcoran: Yes. Absolutely. So, Madam Mayor, Councilman Cavener, so what that would look at is primarily things like driver's licensing, 911 dispatch, the jail, those are all still operated for the county. In terms of patrols, you know, it would depend on -- this is sort of the net cost assuming the current situation right? But if more cities went to police departments, they could potentially take some burden off the county, but it would put that burden back on those cities right? So -- Cavener: Madam Mayor. Sorry. Can we -- can we go back? Can you just pull up that slide, if you don't mind? I think that would be helpful. Thanks. Madam Mayor. The projection is, then, that -- that 2,000 -- I guess that a thousand additional employees for the sheriff's department. In your mind, the majority of that is DMV, non-sworn officer staff. That's what we are -- Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 24, 2019 – Page 18 of 257 Meridian City Council -Ada County Commissioners Joint Meeting September 17, 2019 Page 15 of 19 Mehta-Cooper: So, when we did the Ada county master facilities plan a couple of years ago what we did is we broke down all the operational pieces of each office and department and kind of started understanding how much of per thousand population need is generated for -- for example, the driver's license or for jail or for -- you know. And at the end of the day, as Idaho State Code is written, police departments are not -- we are still at the end of the day sheriff still has to provide the services throughout the Ada county incorporated and unincorporated territory is my understanding. So, all the projections are based on our existing trend, how we were trending between 2009 and 2017 in terms of per thousand population, what -- what we need for each operation of the sheriff and so these numbers were derived directly out of that and so the assumption is that some of the cities will continue to build their own police forces, but it will be at the same level as it is today. So, level of service, in other words, is similar. Palmer: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Palmer. Palmer: I hope that if at full build out we are still having driver's license services at a building, that there is no hope for the country as it is. So, hopefully, we are able to figure out new technologies and whatnot to avoid having to have all these people in a DMV at full build out. Mehta-Cooper: Councilman Palmer that is an awesome question. I think we struggle -- grappled with that as we work in the master facilities plan and our -- we have, you know, worked with 19 members all elected officials, as well as department heads, in grappling with technology and some of the new things that will change things and so our growth projections per thousand population actually starts showing some shifts after 2025 and so you are -- we have called for that, in other words. So, yes, you're absolutely right and we grappled with that as we were looking for technological advancements and other things that would impact the service provision portfolio. Palmer: It warms my heart to hear that that's being anticipated. Thank you. Lachiondo: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Commissioner Lachiondo. Lachiondo: So, if you don't mind -- and, then, we will -- we will keep going, but I wanted to give you just a little bit of flavor in terms of how we got to this place. So, we are a newly constituted board as of January and one of the very first pieces that we had the opportunity to get educated on was the really two year process that the county undertook to create a master facilities plan that encompassed all of the elected officials, department heads, et cetera, and as you know county government is a little bit different in that we have an additional six elected officials who we work with who run their own offices and we were handed these very large black binders that contained all of this myriad of really stark needs that we have for the county, but alongside that was not necessarily a Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 24, 2019 – Page 19 of 257 Meridian City Council -Ada County Commissioners Joint Meeting September 17, 2019 Page 16 of 19 corresponding financial plan for how to pay for it. So, this board is now in the process of how do we grapple with that and when I look at what we are facing in terms of our three top priorities right now being a new jail pod, new coroner's office and a courthouse expansion, all very necessary issues, we are struggling with how we are going to pay for that in and of itself. So, for us really kick starting this conversation is about understanding what are the current costs of our growth projections and if we are fine with those costs, both as a county, as well as our partner cities, then, we will all be along our merry ways, but I think at least at the county level we know we are going to have to work really hard to meet those and so we want to engage the conversation around is there a fiscally different way to grow. Perhaps a more fiscally responsible way to grow that would allow us all to save money for our taxpayers. So, that's really where we started from, just looking at our own budget, but quickly realized that, obviously, ACHD is in the mix, the school district, et cetera, et cetera, and we needed to bring everybody to the table to have that conversation. De Weerd: Thank you. And I know your accounting team has been visiting our Finance Department and learning more about our comprehensive financial plan and our capital improvement plan. So, we love the collaboration and working together. So, thank you. David, I have one more question for you. You talked about an area in Montana. Montana has different land use laws that dictate -- I'm not sure our land use laws and our current code to maybe achieve the same thing. Have you done some comparisons in -- in how theirs stands and how they have been able to -- to change the course? Corcoran: Absolutely. So, Madam Mayor, the goal of the Gallatin county sort of example is not necessarily to look at the policy changes they have made. Obviously, at some point down the line that's going to have to be researched -- De Weerd: That's a big piece. Corcoran: Yes. Yes. Right now the goal is to focus on -- or at least our focus was on the way in which they quantified the cost of their development as it stands. De Weerd: Okay. Corcoran: And the way in which they used that money to look at different scenarios. De Weerd: I appreciate that. Mehta-Cooper: And, Madam Mayor, if I may add, so for October 16th growth conversation, we have invited a couple of national experts that will help us understand some toolbox that are available in front of us and that we can think about as a region and say, yeah, this is something we should think about as a region to achieve the fiscally responsible goal -- our growth goal for all of us. So, we have invited a couple of national experts that will help us kind of understand what other people that are in similar situation, including some in Idaho, have done or have envisioned doing. Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 24, 2019 – Page 20 of 257 Meridian City Council -Ada County Commissioners Joint Meeting September 17, 2019 Page 17 of 19 De Weerd: So, part of that toolbox will it be -- have some policy suggestions to it? I know we have gone to the legislature with some policy suggestions and they haven't even been heard. So, will those be part of -- of that discussion in October? Mehta-Cooper: It will be a collaborative conversation release and Commissioner -- Lachiondo: And we are just getting started. So, I think the opportunity right now is to first start with the fiscal impact piece and if, as the region, as the county and all of our entities, we decide we want to continue to pursue that, then, it would be the opportunity to link arms and if need be go to the legislature. I hear you. I know how difficult that is. But I think we have to get on the same page as a community first. De Weerd: So, you can tell the fiscal impact story first. That's great. Well, I appreciate your -- your help with that. Carl. Miller: Good afternoon. De Weerd: Good afternoon. Miller: My name is Carl Miller. Madam Mayor, Meridian City Council, Ada County Commission, thank you for inviting me to participate in this conversation. I'm with the Community Planning Association of Southwest Idaho or COMPASS and we are the metropolitan planning organization for Ada and Canyon county. Before I talk about fiscal impact I did want to point out, Commissioner Cavener, that we do track a lot of the growth and development trends, as well as migration. I will share that information with your staff and they can share that with you if that's all right. So, fiscal impact. A little bit about what it is and, then, how we are going to be using it. It's really an analysis of the financial bottom line of land use in the county. All the revenues that come in through development fees and impact fees and taxes and property taxes and, then, what we commit to when we approve development as far as the different public expenditures that we have through public transportation, public education, municipal services, county services, public works and so forth and it really helps to identify and quantify the value and to tell a story about does growth pay for itself. Looking at how much revenue comes in with different types of development patterns, how much revenue is expected based on those development patterns and types of uses, as well as what's the relationship between revenues and costs based on where it is in the county, where it is located in the city. A lot of the work that your city staff has done about the relationship between where services already exist and the amount of cost that it would take to -- to serve those things and, then, be able to answer that question should development be incentivized or disincentivized based, again, on location, what type of development it is and so forth. Again, fiscal impact is more of an informational tool, but it really needs to lead to that implementation tool to be an effective policy. And, then, it can also answer those things like how will demographic shifts change the expected revenue and cost for a community as -- as people change over time they will expect different housing types and land use patterns. Does that change the amount of money coming in and out of a community. It really all comes down to the bottom line of does growth pay for itself. COMPASS has recently worked with your Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 24, 2019 – Page 21 of 257 Meridian City Council -Ada County Commissioners Joint Meeting September 17, 2019 Page 18 of 19 staff, both at the county and the city, as well as stakeholders across the region and we are working to hire a consultant to do that fiscal impact analysis for us as we -- as the metropolitan planning organization work on the long range transportation plan, Communities In Motion, this one will be called Communities In Motion 25. As we look out over the next three decades about what are the transportation infrastructure needs and services that we have in the valley we will also want to tell the story about what those different land use patterns and preferred growth scenarios -- what will that mean to our financial bottom line as -- as communities, as cities and counties and -- and to the people that we serve. So, as we look at that preferred growth scenario this fiscal impact will help tell the story of what is the cost, what are the revenues generated with those different lands these patterns. That will be the first step upon that, if successful, we will move into what will that cost be as to communities and even at different sites, specific land use proposals. But really looking at first what does that mean to a regional preferred -- preferred land use scenario. So, again, this is work that we have just started on. We will be hiring a consultant later -- actually next month. Working with your -- your staff and other stakeholders to really help identify those costs and moving forward so we can tell a more compelling story about what is the financial impacts of land use patterns. That's all I have for you. Any questions for me? De Weerd: Thanks, Carl. I think you're -- you're launching a mammoth program or project and we appreciate your leadership on this. Council and Commission, any questions? Thank you. Miller: Thank you. De Weerd: Okay. Well, the -- mentioned at the very end of that was Title 8 and 9 agreements and -- and just want to make sure -- or want to make sure that we have that on your radar, that we would like to have a discussion and it will follow a lot of the discussion that we had with the Ada County Commissioners a couple of years ago with the PowerPoint that we will send you and so we will work with your team to set up a follow- up meeting to discuss it that as you talk about fiscal impacts and cost to growth, the growth in our areas of impact and what -- what design criteria they have with impact fees and those kind of things. That -- and in-fill. Those are areas that we would like to have further discussions on. Kenyon: Thank you so much. And thank you so much for having us here and participating in the -- not only discussion, but I think, you know, we all are committed at least at this board sitting up here moving forward and working together and having these conversations is really critical. Having us look at what is the common vision. If we can begin with the end in mind -- I think we had a high number at -- at COMPASS based on our current comprehensive plans that build out -- what was it 1.4 or 2.4 million? So, is that really where we want to be? And so I think for me having all of us sitting at the table and talking about what's that common vision at the end of build out and, then, working backwards towards that and, then, also agreeing on the core values and I think that we all share those core values and they just maybe haven't been articulated as well as they Meridian City Council Meeting Agenda September 24, 2019 – Page 22 of 257 Meridian City Council -Ada County Commissioners Joint Meeting September 17, 2019 Page 19 of 19 could have been in the past and I really appreciate the community engagement that you have had with your community here. You really set the standard and set the bar high. De Weerd: Well, thank you for picking this up and -- and running with it. We appreciate that leadership. And if there isn't any further business in front of these two bodies, I would entertain a motion to adjourn our special meeting. Cavener: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Cavener. Cavener: I move we adjourn our special meeting. Milam: Second. De Weerd: I have a motion a second to adjourn. All those in favor. MOTION CARRIED: FOUR AYES. ONE ABSENT. MEETING ADJOURNED AT 4:32 P.M. 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C Q0 0 W C o• S 1^0 .�. n I -4 o m G Q O i September 17, 2019 Ada County –City of Meridian Joint Workshop Ada County –City of Meridian Joint workshop of Board of County Commissioners and City Council Mitra Mehta-Cooper, Ada County Strategic Planning Manager David Corcoran, Ada County Community and Regional Planner Carl Miller, COMPASS Principal Planner September 17, 2019 Ada County –City of Meridian Joint Workshop Why are we here? –Mitra Mehta-Cooper, Ada County Where are we now? What should we do? –David Corcoran, Ada County Discussion by Board of County Commissioners and Meridian City Council Fiscal Impact Analysis –Carl Miller, COMPASS Discussion by Board of County Commissioners and Meridian City Council Public Comments Ada County –Meridian Joint Workshop Outline September 17, 2019 Ada County –City of Meridian Joint Workshop https://parksandrecreation.idaho.gov/parks/eagle-island https://rootsrated.com/stories/a-doggone-good-adventure-the-best-dog-friendly-trails-in-boise Total Ada County (~acres) – 678,400 Federal lands: 320,869 State lands: 41,357 Recreational Areas: 8,139 Why are we here? September 17, 2019 Ada County –City of Meridian Joint Workshop 32 Locations 1850 Employees Sheriff: 675 EMS: 150 Courts: 120 Juvenile: 80 Coroner: 28 Why are we here? September 17, 2019 Ada County –City of Meridian Joint Workshop https://www.forrent.com/id/meridian/the-regency-at-river-valley/yl49ctv Why are we here? September 17, 2019 Ada County –City of Meridian Joint Workshop “We find that a majority of respondents (72%) feel that the Treasure Valley is growing too fast.” Third Annual Treasure Valley Survey Boise State University Idaho Policy Institute https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/post/our-changing-idaho-how-growth-boise-and-beyond-impacts-you#stream/0 Why are we here? September 17, 2019 Ada County –City of Meridian Joint Workshop September 17, 2019 Ada County –City of Meridian Joint Workshop County Services that are provided to City Residents: -911 Dispatch -Drivers Licensing -Sheriff Patrols (3) -Emergency Medical Services -Weed, Pest, and Mosquito Abatement -County Prosecutor and Defender -Trial Court and Services -Juvenile Court and Services -FACES -Elections -Coroner -Clerk/Assessor -Landfill -Others Where are we now? September 17, 2019 Ada County –City of Meridian Joint Workshop Where are we now? September 17, 2019 Ada County –City of Meridian Joint Workshop ADA COUNTY POPULATION PROJECTIONS 2010 2017 2025 2040 R5 2040 LU Buildout 383,470 446,219 539,730 668,932 679,199 1,449,662 Increase:16%41%74%77%278%compared to 2010 21%50%52%225%compared to 2017 2%117%compared to 2040 Where are we now? September 17, 2019 Ada County –City of Meridian Joint Workshop $320M Capital Cost 2600 Employees Sheriff: 950 EMS: 220 Courts: 180 Juvenile: 110 Coroner: 40 $690M Capital Cost 5600 Employees Sheriff: 2050 EMS: 480 Courts: 390 Juvenile: 245 Coroner: 81 Where are we now? 32 Locations 1850 Employees Sheriff: 675 EMS: 150 Courts: 120 Juvenile: 80 Coroner: 28 September 17, 2019 Ada County –City of Meridian Joint Workshop What should we do? September 17, 2019 Ada County –City of Meridian Joint Workshop Fiscal Impact Analysis of Gallatin County, Montana What should we do? September 17, 2019 Ada County –City of Meridian Joint Workshop What should we do? September 17, 2019 Ada County –City of Meridian Joint Workshop Discussion Fiscal Impact Analyses for CIM 2050 What is Fiscal Impact? Analysis of cash flow to the public sector Capital costs and operating expenses Public infrastructure and services: •Public education •Public safety and emergency services •Open space and parks •Public works How is it used? What is the relationship between land use and infrastructure costs? What is the relationship between land use and municipal revenues? What is the locational relationship between of costs and revenues? Should development be incentivized? How will demographic shifts change costs and revenues? Is growth paying for itself? Communities in Motion 2050 Working with stakeholders and public on preferred growth scenario What are the values and preferences of the community? What will it cost to serve? September 17, 2019 Ada County –City of Meridian Joint Workshop Ada County’s Commitment COMPASS has issued an RFP for the Fiscal Impact Analysis and a RTAC Subcommittee will be assisting their staff in reviewing the proposals and the Consultant’s work Ada County Board of County Commissioners has allocated funds in FY20 to further guide these growth conversations with regional partners including ACHD, partner cities, and COMPASS Ada County is in the process of meeting with each city and other partnering agencies October 16, 2019 –Coordinated Growth Conversation #1 September 17, 2019 Ada County –City of Meridian Joint Workshop Discussion September 17, 2019 Ada County –City of Meridian Joint Workshop Thank You