New revenue is the easy half. The hard half is what the growth costs to serve — the classrooms, the deputies, the lane miles, the water plant. LOCI® weighs both on your own tax digest, your own budgets, your own commuting patterns, and returns the one figure that decides the vote: net fiscal impact, year by year, for up to 35 years.
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Every incentive request arrives with a benefits number attached. It is almost always gross, almost always somebody else's, and it almost never counts what the growth costs to serve. A council that cannot check that number is negotiating blind. LOCI® was built to end that asymmetry.
Your community is entered once and refreshed about once a year. After that, every deal is a few minutes of input — and the answer comes back on your numbers, not a national average dropped onto your map.
Your property digest and millage, your local government budget line by line, your retail activity, your utility rates, your school enrolment and your commuting patterns. The fiscal fabric of the place — entered once, reused on every deal.
City · county · school districtJobs, payroll, real and personal property, inventory, construction, operating spend, visitors — year by year across the ramp. Then the part that matters: the abatement schedule and every dollar of public support on the table.
Paste from Excel · phase-in helperRevenue above the line, cost to serve below it, net in between — for each taxing body separately and for the deal as a whole. Benefit-cost ratio, net present value, payback year, and the assumptions panel that lets a skeptic check your work.
Workbook · one-pager · share linkSimple enough that a director without an economics degree can run the analysis alone. Deep enough that the answer survives the public comment period.
Property, sales, income, utility and lodging revenue set against the real cost of serving the households and students that arrive with the jobs.
One physical project touches the city, the county and the school district — each voting on its own abatement. See each ledger separately, and the combined total.
Census flow data splits the workforce between people who live in your jurisdiction and people who drive in. Only one of those groups fills your classrooms.
Abatements expire. Buildings depreciate. Costs compound. LOCI® runs the full life of the firm and reports it as a net present value — with the abatement window drawn in, so nobody mistakes a holiday for a loss.
Compare scenarios side by side, then export the full workbook, a designed one-page infographic, or a read-only link a commissioner can open on a phone without an account.
Local data you can point to, a method that has been published and defended for three decades, and a calculation you can walk a skeptic through line by line. If a number in the report is wrong, you can find out which input made it wrong.
Assessed values, millage rates and exemptions as your assessor actually reports them — because a $18M investment does very different things in two counties with different digests.
Cost to serve is derived from your own local government's spending on the functions that scale with growth — not a per-capita rule of thumb borrowed from somewhere else.
Census origin–destination data decides how many of the new jobs become households inside your boundary. Everything downstream — students, retail spending, service cost — follows from that split.
Abatement schedules, fee waivers, infrastructure commitments and cash support enter as real line items on a real year — so the package you sign is the package the model priced.
City, county and school district each carry their own revenue, their own cost, their own abatement and their own verdict — then roll up to a combined figure for the deal.
The engine was completely redesigned and rebuilt this year, then back-solved against the original model case by case, so thirty years of validated method carried forward intact.
“LOCI® results are presented in a way that companies understand, providing them with assurance that local governments can fulfill their commitments while continuing to be a high-quality place where employees want to live.”
LOCI® is licensed by economic development authorities, chambers, utilities and local governments across the country — and it is the model their opponents cite too. That is the point. A number both sides of the table accept is the only kind worth bringing to a vote.
LOCI® begins as a research project in local-government fiscal impact analysis — the first software of its kind aimed at the people who actually approve the deal.
Billions of dollars of proposed investment weighed before the decisions were made, in front of councils, boards, authorities and state legislatures.
LOCI® is owned and supported by the Economic Impact Group, led by Dr. Alfie Meek — the economist who has spent his career on this question.
A complete redesign: a modern web application, a faster and more robust engine, scenario comparison and multi-jurisdiction roll-up — parity-checked against thirty years of prior results.
One annual license per organization, priced by the population you serve. Every seat, every analysis, every export included — no per-user math, no per-report fees.
† Utility and university licenses are set up personally — email us and we’ll take it from there. All other tiers: request a license and you’ll be running analyses this week.
Set your community up once. Run every deal after that in minutes. Walk into the meeting with a number you can defend to the board, the press and the company across the table.
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