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To be effective in making your case to legislators, you will need to develop a Case Statement. We recommend that you incorporate the following items should be outlined in a Case Statement: • A brief statement defining the need (purpose) for a facility in your area. • A description of the public customers or users who need the facility. Are there alternative uses? • A description of the opportunity to do this now instead of later. • Listing of the supporters or partners of the project, with the understanding that this list may expand as you do outreach. • A description of where the facilities are to be located and why. • A description of the estimated cost to construct this facility. • Description of who will own, operate and maintain the facility. • Description of how you will be able to manage the operations (who will continue to pay for it, and how it will be paid for, such as revenue from users.) • Description of the regional benefit, making it clear that more than one community will use the new facility, perhaps with a description of how far anyone would have to travel to find a similar facility. • Description of who may not support the building of the facility, and a brief description of your reasoning that refutes their claims. • Basics of a facility by the numbers: how big, how much it would cost, how many key parts are involved (such as how many basketball courts), how many users it could handle. • A discussion of local economic development opportunities such as bringing in more visitors to the community. The case statement should serve as the base document to garner support from other potential local partners and the legislature. As we work on this issue, there will be other elements as well. A case statement often goes through several drafts, but this is a start. We will be happy to work with you on refining this statement to make it as effective as possible. SCOPE OF WORK We are proposing a two phase approach to helping you secure a capital (bonding) grant from the State of Minnesota. As such, we propose to provide the following services for each phase. Local activities and interactions • Provide assistance in putting together your Case Statement. • Meet with appropriate staff and consultants who are engaged in this project including: City Administrators and city councils, public relations professionals, and an owner's representative (construction manager and architect). We would like to reaffirm the scope of the project and the cost. These meetings would be used to make sure all players are on the same page. A collective team approach will dramatically ensure the chances of 4