FIAM USER GUIDE COVER II - Fiscal Impact Analysis Model - OKI
FIAM USER GUIDE COVER II - Fiscal Impact Analysis Model - OKI
FIAM USER GUIDE COVER II - Fiscal Impact Analysis Model - OKI
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<strong>Fiscal</strong> <strong>Impact</strong> <strong>Analysis</strong> <strong>Model</strong><br />
User Guide<br />
structured, the same type of expenditure may appear under one service area in one<br />
community and in a different category for another. For example, a community that<br />
maintains its parks using public works personnel and equipment will generally allocate<br />
funding for that service to the public works department and, as a result, that expense<br />
will be accounted for in the “Infrastructure” public service area. In contrast, another<br />
community may fund park maintenance specifically through its parks and recreation<br />
department and thus that funding is accounted for in the <strong>Model</strong> under the “Parks and<br />
Recreation” public service area. In cases where these categories are combined within a<br />
jurisdiction’s budget, they are not generally separated for purposes of this <strong>Model</strong>,<br />
although it may be possible to make that separation based on specific information if<br />
necessary.<br />
To fully understand what a public service area includes for any specific community, the<br />
user should review a recent audit report (KY), financial statement (IN) or CAFR (OH)<br />
and identify how funding categories are organized in that document.<br />
The public service areas used in the <strong>Model</strong> are:<br />
• Public Safety. This category includes police or sheriff services, fire safety and<br />
suppression, emergency medical services, hazardous materials management<br />
and other such services. Services received by a community but not provided by<br />
the local government are not included in this category, such as fire services<br />
whose funding does not appear in the jurisdiction’s budget. Services provided by<br />
a separate agency but whose funding appears in the jurisdiction’s budget, such<br />
as contracted additional sheriff services, are accounted for in the <strong>Model</strong>.<br />
• Infrastructure. This category includes public works, sanitation, and<br />
transportation services such as road repair and maintenance, snow removal,<br />
parking, maintenance of public landscapes, and other such services funded<br />
through routine local government funds. Infrastructure services funded through<br />
enterprise agencies are not accounted for in the <strong>Model</strong>.<br />
• Public Health and Welfare. This category includes public health programs,<br />
workforce development, health inspections, social assistance programs, senior<br />
services and mental health programs, and other human services funded through<br />
the jurisdiction’s budget. Services available to a jurisdiction’s residents but not<br />
funded by that jurisdiction are not accounted for in the <strong>Model</strong>.<br />
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