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The City, located in the center of Ramsey County, is a second-ring suburb of Minneapolis-Saint Paul. The neighboring cities to Little Canada include Maplewood, Roseville, Shoreview, Vadnais Heights, White Bear Lake and Saint Paul. Little Canada consists of an area that encompasses 4.48 square miles, of which approximately 1.59 square miles is water. Little Canada, between 2016-2020, was comprised of approximately 65.1% white residents with approximately 31.6% being of color from primarily Black or African American at 12.5% and Asian or Pacific Islander at 13.5%. The City currently provides the City Newsletter in Spanish in response to the increase in bilingual households, and is looking at other language options. The City is comprised of 16 full time and 6 part time staff and various seasonal employees. The City consists of the following departments: Administration, Elections, Finance, Fire (25 paid on call firefighters), Parks & Recreation, Planning and Community Development, Public Safety, Public Works and Utility Billing. The City contracts out for some services including police services through Ramsey County, fire services through the Little Canada Fire Department, engineering services through Bolton & Menk, etc. The City is in a joint Power Agreement for internet services through Metro-INET which currently provides IT services to 43 other north metro local government entities and decisions on technology improvements are initiated and led by staff. The last Compensation Study for the City was conducted early in 2022. 5 of 63