Professional Services Agreement - Urban3 - Cost Study, Phase 3

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CITY OF SOUTH BEND COST STUDY - PHASE 3 URBAN 3 UTH BEND I D COST STUDY TY OF SO Phase 3 This analysis will assist policy makers, city staff and the community of South Bend in understanding the role development patterns play in the cost of infrastructure cost and its relationship to city finances. This project will present and compare an updated 2018 Revenue Model (Property Taxes and Fees) with a Cost Model (to include: Street Network, Stormwater, and Sewer). Phase 1 of this analysis included creating a Value Per Acre Model for South Bend, including an analysis of the pipe development overtime. This was accomplished in 2015. Phase 2 built upon Phase 1, as Urban3 staff worked collaboratively with South Bend staff to create the Cost Model. Phase 3 will encompass additional work looking at regional implications and recommendations, storyboarding all the graphics created, conducting final processing of the model, packaging the data for staff's future use, updating the Storymap with the final cost analysis, and final presentations of the analysis on site by Mr. Minicozzi. Details for this scope of work are listed below. Task 1: Service Development Charge Analysis Urban3 will augment the underlying data model from Phase 2 to include any service development charges. Urban3 will map all the data that can be located from existing records. With the cost portion of the analysis Urban3 will be able to compare this source of revenue to the geographic distribution of various costs. Task 1 Deliverables: None, Task 2: Assembling South Bend's Economic Story A. Graphics Once Urban3 arrives at the final cost calculations from the preceding stages, we will collaborate with the City of South Bend staff to create a set of graphics and visualizations to explain the findings to a general audience, including council and citizens. Urban3 will use these visualizations to synthesize the information into a set of conclusions.