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Additional Work regarding Downtown STAR Bond District an DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES° guiding effective decisions in % -c real estate. community, and economic development September 6,2018 Mr. Mike Stage Interim City Manager 300 West Ash,Room 212 P.O. Box 736 Salina,Kansas 67402-0736 Re: Additional Work Regarding the Downtown STAR Bond Project Dear Mr.Schrage: The purpose of this letter is to summarize what will be required to assist the City of Salina in updating the base sales tax information for the Downtown STAR Bond District. This effort is in addition to the contracted feasibility study,which is also being updated. An update to the base sales tax collections for the district will allow the City to evaluate how well the district is performing,as the prior base was established in early 2016. It is our understanding that the City is working to obtain sales tax data from the Kansas Department of Revenue and will make an effort to refine it before providing it to Development Strategies. Development Strategies will further analyze the data to reasonably ensure that revenues specific to the district arc captured by analyzing the database and using GIS analysis. Once the datais satisfactorily refined,a memorandum summarizing our findings will be provided. The cost to complete this effort will depend on how long it takes to refine the data from the state. For this reason,we will bill based on time spent at our standard billable hourly rates. A good faith estimate is summarized below: DS Billable Rates: Salina STAR Bond Sales Tax Review __ Hrly.Rate Low Estimate High Estimate Larry Marks $200 1 $200 2 $400 Andy Pfister $130 4 $520 8 $1,040 Nathan Coursey $85 24 $2,040 40 $3,400 Nate Silverstein $80 16 $1280 24 $1,920 Total $4,040 $6,760 We also understand that time is of the essence once the data is obtained and will work as quickly as possible to complete this work. Please let us know if you have any questions and thank you for the opportunity to further assist your efforts. Respectfully submitted AIA � v' behalf of Development Strategies, JI .. ' lr/t�vvd Larry\ k MCP,AIA Andy Pfistcr,.�l' CP Principal Senior Associate 10 South Broadway,Suite 1500• St.Louis, MO 63107 •p 314.471.7800 I www.DEVELOPMENT-STRATEGIES.cOM I RE:Salina STAR Bond Sales Tax Study Acceptance Page 2 of 2 I hereby accept the terms of this proposal: "^ti Or-- Signa/urr Name Minted Namr 4 �naois Date 1