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M <br />M <br />-.. <br />Level Network <br />Work Plan FJ.,' <br />A Level 3 Network Community includes 10 hours per month of professional planning assistance. <br />These are hours dedicated to provide planning assistance to the City of Pequot Lakes. <br />How Community Growth Institute will provide services. <br />The Network Community Program provides the foundation of the service we provide. As a Level 3 <br />Network Community, Pequot Lakes officials would enjoy all of the benefits of an entire planning <br />department, including: <br />• Unlimited priority access to professional planners with expertise in all aspects of planning, <br />including transportation, recreation, environmental systems, economic and community <br />development, housing; land use and mapping. <br />• Timely planning information available on a community information website, (www.pequot <br />planning.info), including all staff reports (typically one week prior to the meeting), meeting <br />minutes, maps, and applications. An email distribution list that keeps residents, and any <br />interested party, informed. <br />• Ordinances, regulations, and procedures that are kept current with changes in state law, <br />interpretations of the courts, and accepted planning practice. <br />• A planning newsletter that specifically addresses the issues and challenges impacting fast - growing <br />small towns. <br />• Discounted planning time from the Institute's Planning Team. <br />The Level 3 Network Community includes 10 hours a month of professional planning time, which is an <br />effective rate of $70 /hour. Any time over 10 hours per month is discounted 15% off of our standard <br />rate of $92 /hour. Support from our Administrative Staff is at $45 /hour. <br />We envision utilizing the monthly planning hours to: <br />■ Prepare a Parks and Recreation Plan to conform to changes in state law regarding park <br />dedication fees, <br />• Ordinance amendments, as requested by the City Council and Planning Commission <br />• Violation assistance, as requested by Staff, <br />• Meet with property owners, public officials, and developers as requested; <br />• Perform specialty mapping work as requested; <br />• Perform any other planning functions, as requested. <br />We will provide detailed invoices for all work performed in the Network Communities program, leaving <br />no question on how a service was performed. We have a history of working with communities to meet <br />budgets and effectively balance costs with service, sacrificing neither. <br />0 <br />