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0 COST / BENEFIT ANALYSIS DRAFT COPY <br />Economic impacts are further increased through re -spending of the direct spending. The total impact is estimated by applying an <br />economic multiplier to initial direct spending to account for the total economic impact. The total output multiplier is used to <br />estimate the aggregate total spending that takes place beginning with direct spending and continuing through each successive <br />round of re -spending. Successive rounds of re -spending are generally discussed in terms of their indirect and induced effects on <br />the area economy. Each is discussed in more detail below. <br />INDIRECT EFFECTS consist of the re -spending of the initial or direct expenditures. These indirect impacts extend further as the <br />dollars constituting the direct expenditures continue to change hands. This process, in principle, could continue indefinitely. <br />However, recipients of these expenditures may spend all or part of it on goods and services outside the market area, put part of <br />these earnings into savings or pay taxes. This spending halts the process of subsequent expenditure flows and does not <br />generate additional spending or impact within the community after a period of time. This progression is termed leakage and <br />reduces the overall economic impact. <br />Indirect impacts occur in a number of areas including the following: <br />• Wholesale industry as purchases of food and merchandise products are made. <br />• Transportation industry as the products are shipped from purchaser to buyer. <br />• Manufacturing industry as products used to service the Youth and Amateur Sports Complex and site, vendors and others are <br />produced. <br />• Utility industry as the power to produce goods and services is consumed. <br />• Other such industries. <br />INDUCED EFFECTS consist of the positive changes in spending, employment, earnings and tax collections generated by personal <br />income associated with the operations of the Youth and Amateur Sports Complex and other related facilities. Specifically, as the <br />economic impact process continues, wages and salaries are earned, increased employment and population are generated, and <br />spending occurs in virtually all business, household and governmental sectors. This represents the induced spending impacts <br />generated by direct expenditures. <br />Indirect and induced effects are calculated by applying the appropriate multipliers to the net new direct spending estimates. The <br />appropriate multipliers to be used are dependent upon certain regional characteristics and also the nature of the expenditure. <br />Generally, an area which is capable of producing a wide range of goods and services within its borders will have high multipliers, <br />a positive correlation existing between the self-sufficiency of an area's economy and the higher probability of re -spending <br />occurring within the region. If a high proportion of the expenditures must be imported from another geographical region, lower <br />multipliers will result. <br />The multiplier estimates used in this analysis are based on the IMPLAN system. IMPLAN, which stands for Impact Analyses and <br />Planning, is a computer software package that consists of procedures for estimating local input-output models and associated <br />databases. Input-output models are a technique for quantifying interactions between firms, industries and social institutions <br />within a local economy. IMPLAN was originally developed by the U.S. Forest Service in cooperation with the Federal Emergency <br />Management Agency and the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management to assist in land and resource <br />management planning. Since 1993, the IMPLAN system has been developed under exclusive rights by the Minnesota Implan <br />Group, Inc., which licenses and distributes the software to users. Currently, there are thousands of licensed users in the United <br />States including universities, government agencies and private companies. <br />The economic data for IMPLAN comes from the system of national accounts for the United States based on data collected by <br />the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and other federal and state government agencies. Data <br />are collected for 440 distinct producing industry sectors of the national economy corresponding to the Standard Industrial <br />Categories (SICs). Industry sectors are classified on the basis of the primary commodity or service produced. Corresponding <br />data sets are also produced for each county and zip code in the United States, allowing analyses at both the city and county level <br />and for geographic aggregations such as clusters of contiguous cities, counties, individual states or groups of states. <br />Data provided for each industry sector include outputs and inputs from other sectors; value added, employment, wages and <br />business taxes paid; imports and exports; final demand by households and government; capital investment; business inventories; <br />marketing margins and inflation factors (deflators). These data are provided both for the 440 producing sectors at the national <br />level and for the corresponding sectors at the local level. Data on the technological mix of inputs and levels of transactions <br />between producing sectors are taken from detailed input-output tables of the national economy. National and local level data are <br />the basis for IMPLAN calculations of input-output tables and multipliers for geographic areas. The IMPLAN software package <br />allows the estimation of the multiplier effects of changes in final demand for one industry on all other industries within a local <br />economic area. <br />C1 <br />.,,iS Feasibility Study of a Potential new Youth and Amateur Sports Complex in Mounds View, Minnesota 9 Page 56 <br />