THE ECONOMIC AND FISCAL IMPACT OF THE DUPAGE AIRPORT AUTHORITY AND ASSOCIATED ACTIVITIES ON THE DUPAGE COUNTY ECONOMY A Report to THE DUPAGE AIRPORT AUTHORITY from GRUEN GRUEN + ASSOCIATES Urban Economists, Market Strategists & Land Use/Public Policy Analysts March 2012 C1330 Gruen Gruen + Associates
THE ECONOMIC AND FISCAL IMPACT OF THE DUPAGE AIRPORT AUTHORITY AND ASSOCIATED ACTIVITIES ON THE DUPAGE COUNTY ECONOMY A Report to THE DUPAGE AIRPORT AUTHORITY from GRUEN GRUEN + ASSOCIATES Urban Economists, Market Strategists & Land Use/Public Policy Analysts March 2012 C1330 2012 Gruen Gruen + Associates. Do not reproduce without written permission from Gruen Gruen + Associates.
Chapter TABLE OF CONTENTS Page I INTRODUCTION, FINDINGS, AND CONCLUSIONS... 1 INTRODUCTION... 1 CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT... 1 FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS... 2 Total Economic Impact on DuPage County... 2 Total Fiscal Impact on DuPage County Taxing Entities... 3 II METHODOLOGY AND DATA INPUTS FOR ECONOMIC IMPACT ANALYSIS... 5 METHODOLOGY... 5 DATA INPUTS FOR IMPACT ANALYSIS... 6 Direct Employment, Payroll, and Employee Expenditures... 6 Non-Payroll Operating Expenditures... 7 Capital Expenditures... 8 Visitor Expenditures... 9 III THE ECONOMIC AND FISCAL IMPACT OF THE DUPAGE AIRPORT AUTHORITY AND ASSOCIATED ACTIVITIES ON THE DUPAGE COUNTY ECONOMY...11 INTRODUCTION... 11 TOTAL ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE DUPAGE AIRPORT AND RELATED ACTIVITIES... 11 FISCAL IMPACT OF THE DUPAGE AIRPORT AND RELATED ACTIVITIES... 12 SOURCES OF REVENUE... 12 PROPERTY TAXES... 12 SALES TAXES... 14 HOTEL TAXES... 16 TELCOMMUNICATION AND UTILITY TAXES... 17 A ECONOMIC IMPACTS ON DUPAGE COUNTY BY COMPONENT OF AIRPORT-RELATED ACTIVITY: 2012... 20 i
Table LIST OF TABLES Page I-1 Total Economic Impact of the DuPage Airport Authority and Related Activities on the DuPage County Economy in 2012... 3 I-2 Estimated Total Annual Revenues Induced by the DuPage Airport Authority and Related Activities for DuPage County Taxing Entities... 4 II-1 Estimated Employment and Total Payroll for DuPage Airport, Flight Center, Prairie Landing Golf Course and DuPage Business Center: 2012... 6 II-2 Geographic Distribution of Employment and Payroll by County of Residence... 7 II-3 Non-Payroll Expenditures Made Within DuPage County: 2012... 8 II-4 2012 Budgeted Capital Improvements for the DuPage Airport and Prairie Landing Golf Course: DuPage County Expenditures... 8 II-5 2012 Visitor Expenditures Made Within DuPage County... 9 III-1 Total Economic Impact of the DuPage Airport Authority and Related Activities on the DuPage County Economy in 2012... 12 III-2 Estimate of 2012 Property Tax Revenues Directly Generated by Airport Activities... 13 III-3 Estimated Distribution of Airport-related Property Tax Revenues in 2012... 14 III-4 Estimate of Total Sales Tax Revenue Directly Generated by Airport Activities... 15 III-5 Estimated Allocation of Sales Tax Revenue Generated... 15 III-6 Estimate of Local Sales Tax Revenue Indirectly Generated by Airport Activities... 16 III-7 Estimate of Hotel Tax Revenue Generated by Airport Visitation... 17 III-8 Estimate of Telecommunication Tax Revenue Generated by Airport Activities... 18 III-9 Estimate of Utility Tax Revenue Generated by Airport Activities... 19 ii
INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION, FINDINGS, AND CONCLUSIONS The DuPage Airport Authority ( DAA ) engaged Gruen Gruen + Associates ( GG+A ) to estimate the economic impacts that DuPage Airport operations and associated activities on airport property generate for the DuPage County economy. This report also identifies the fiscal benefits generated by the DuPage Airport and its associated activities. The DuPage Airport generates economic impacts from four primary sources: Expenditures on operations, payroll, and capital improvements for the Airport, including the DuPage Flight Center and a variety of corporate flight departments, on-site airfield support businesses, maintenance and avionics and other aviation-related businesses as well as governmental entities; Expenditures on operations, payroll, and capital improvements for the Prairie Landing Golf Course; Expenditures on operations and payroll of the occupants of the DuPage Business Center; and Expenditures of Airport visitors. The DuPage Airport attracts dollars from outside DuPage County and spends many of these dollars locally on operations, capital improvements, and payroll. Visitor expenditures, in addition to expenditures on operations, increase the purchase of goods and services in DuPage County, and as the dollars spent locally circulate through the economy, local incomes expand. The direct expenditures of the Airport and associated activities - and to some degree, the demand that results from the secondary or induced effects of these initial dollars - ripple through the economy creating more activity, jobs, and income. CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT As illustrated below, the DuPage Airport contributes in many ways to economic development in DuPage County. GRUEN GRUEN + ASSOCIATES PAGE 1
DuPage Airport Authority Related Activity Administration & Operations Flight Center Prairie Landing Golf Course On-Site Airport Tenants On-Site Business Center Tenants DUPAGE AIRPORT-RELATED ACTIVITY DIRECT EFFECTS Payroll (on-site jobs) Non-Payroll Expenditures Capital Expenditures Visitor Expenditures INDIRECT EFFECTS Induced Household Consumption Business-to- Business Linkages Production Increases Additional Jobs & Income Created TOTAL ECONOMIC IMPACT / BENEFIT Value of Accessibility Business Retention & Attraction Airports serve as the essential infrastructure for the attraction, retention, and growth of business that value accessibility to airports and high levels of air connections for passenger travel and cargo delivery. The DAA enhances the accessibility advantages which companies in DuPage County derive. The DAA serves corporate flight departments, including Menards, McDonald s, and Calamos Investments. Firms such as these use the DuPage Airport to transport employees and customers. The proximity of DuPage Airport to these companies corporate offices is a benefit to these companies. These companies bring in visitors to DuPage County who in turn stay in area hotels and eat and dine in DuPage County, increasing business activity and incomes in DuPage County. As described in this report, the direct operations of the Airport and related on-site activities serve to increase employment and income opportunities within DuPage County, both directly and indirectly. FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS Total Economic Impact on DuPage County Table I-1 summarizes the total annual economic impact of the DAA, including the DuPage Airport, Flight Center, and on-site businesses, Prairie Landing Golf Course, and DuPage Business Center on the DuPage County economy. GRUEN GRUEN + ASSOCIATES PAGE 2
TABLE I-1 Total Economic Impact of the DuPage Airport Authority and Related Activities on the DuPage County Economy in 2012 Output Income Employment # Jobs Direct 69,161,000 28,853,000 666 Indirect 48,296,000 16,605,000 297 Total 117,457,000 45,458,000 963 Multiplier 1.70 1.58 1.45 Sources: DuPage Airport Authority; Regional Economics Application Laboratory; MIG, Inc.; Gruen Gruen + Associates. The total direct and indirect employment impact of the Airport and related activities on the DuPage County economy is estimated at 963 jobs. The total direct and indirect income impact on the County is estimated at 45.5 million, or approximately 47,000 per job. The total output impact or the total volume of economic activity supported is estimated at 117 million. Expenditures made by the DAA, Prairie Landing Golf Course, on-site businesses, the tenant of the DuPage Business Center, and Airport visitors directly support 666 jobs within DuPage County. These expenditures directly generate 28.9 million of additional income within the County, or approximately 43,500 of income per job. Total direct output associated with the Airport and related activities is estimated at 69 million. Indirectly, Airport-related spending supports an additional 297 jobs within DuPage County and 16.6 million of income. The employment and income multipliers are 1.45 and 1.58 respectively, indicating that for every 10 directly-supported jobs, an additional 4.5 jobs are supported indirectly within the County; and for every 10 in direct income, an additional 5.80 is created indirectly. Total Fiscal Impact on DuPage County Taxing Entities The DAA, including the Airport, Flight Center, Prairie Landing Golf Course, DuPage Business Center, and on-site businesses, directly generates the following sources of local tax revenue: Property and Leasehold Property Taxes; Sales Taxes; Hotel Taxes; Utility Taxes; and Telecommunication Taxes. As summarized below in Table I-2, activity associated with the DuPage Airport is estimated to generate approximately 1.3 million of annual tax revenue for DuPage County taxing entities. GRUEN GRUEN + ASSOCIATES PAGE 3
TABLE I-2 Estimated Total Annual Revenues Induced by the DuPage Airport Authority and Related Activities for DuPage County Taxing Entities 1 2012 Property and Leasehold Property Tax 627,000 Sales Tax 459,000 Hotel Tax 149,000 Utility Tax 77,000 Telecommunication Tax 23,000 TOTAL 1,335,000 Source: Gruen Gruen + Associates Property taxes, including leasehold property taxes, generated by Airport-related activity comprise the largest source of local revenue at just under 630,000. Sales taxes generated by Airport-related activity, including visitor spending, are estimated to comprise the second largest source of local revenue at approximately 460,000. Local hotel tax revenues are estimated at approximately 150,000, and utility and telecommunication taxes are estimated to comprise an additional 100,000 of local revenue. GRUEN GRUEN + ASSOCIATES PAGE 4
CHAPTER II METHODOLOGY AND DATA INPUTS FOR ECONOMIC IMPACT ANALYSIS METHODOLOGY The economic impacts presented in this report are presented in terms of: 1. Employment (both full-time and part-time jobs); 2. Income (wages and salaries and proprietors income); and 3. Output (value of all goods and services produced). These economic impacts (attributable to operating and capital expenditures of the DAA, its flight center, golf course, on-site businesses, and visitors) are estimated using IMPLAN, an input-output model. An input-output (I-O) model such as IMPLAN takes into account inter-industry relationships (or linkages) among industry sectors within a given geographic area of study; in this case, DuPage County. When one sector of the economy increases its production because of increased demand for its goods or services, firms and institutions in related industries will also experience increased demand for their products. This is referred to as the multiplier effect and is represented by a multiplier coefficient. The magnitude of the multiplier depends upon the extent to which firms purchase their inputs from other firms located in the same region, as contrasted with the purchase of inputs from those located outside the region. Multipliers vary among industries and among regions. For example, larger and more diverse regions will tend on average to have larger industry multiplier effects because of a greater likelihood of tighter linkages within the region, or in other words, that an industry s inputs will be provided by other businesses within the region. Because some sectors are missing in the local economy, the multiplier effect is smaller than those for larger economic areas such as the Chicago metropolitan area. IMPLAN organizes the local economy into 432 separate industries based on the North American Industry Classification System ( NAICS ) and is an accounting system of transactions that occur through forward and backward linkage in the economy. IMPLAN contains three primary components: the flow-table, direct coefficients, and direct, indirect, and induced coefficients. The input-output accounting trades the flow of dollars between businesses and between businesses and final consumers. The following explains the three coefficient effects: 1. Direct effects are those that result from the expenditures made by DAA and related activities directly for its operations and maintenance activities and capital improvements and from the spending of visitors; 2. Indirect effects are the new economic activities that occur due to the direct expenditures of the DAA and its associated activities. These effects are primarily due to the spin-offs in industry sector-to-industry sector demands that follow from the initial direct spending; and GRUEN GRUEN + ASSOCIATES PAGE 5
3. Induced effects are the results of spending on wages and salaries for employees, capital outlays, visitor spending, and other non-payroll expenditures that generate new household income and associated proportionate re-spending and employment. These are industry sector-household spending effects. The multiplier is the coefficient that relates the magnitude of a direct economic impact to a total economic impact that includes both direct and indirect (including induced) impacts. An employment multiplier of 1.3, for example, indicates that for every ten (10) jobs directly supported by an activity or event; an additional three (3) jobs are created elsewhere in the local economy due to industry-to-industry purchases and the re-circulation of wages and salaries paid to employees. We present our findings of the economic impacts of DuPage Airport in 2012; the figures presented in this report are in 2012 dollars. DATA INPUTS FOR IMPACT ANALYSIS This section summarizes the direct inputs or sources of economic or fiscal impact, including direct construction costs estimated to be associated with DAA capital facility improvements. Direct Employment, Payroll, and Employee Expenditures Table II-1 below summarizes the number of the employees and associated payroll at the DuPage Airport including on-site tenants and the DuPage Flight Center, Prairie Landing Golf Course, and DuPage Business Center. TABLE II-1 Estimated Employment and Total Payroll for DuPage Airport, Flight Center, Prairie Landing Golf Course and DuPage Business Center: 2012 2012 Employment # Full-time Equivalent 2012 Payroll On-Site Tenants 1 308 12,782,000 DAA Administration & Operations 32 2,044,567 Flight Center 21 869,443 Airport Subtotal 361 15,696,010 Prairie Landing Golf Course 48 1,163,539 DuPage Business Center 2 100 2,999,469 TOTAL 509 19,859,018 1 Payroll estimated based on interviews with a sample of on-site tenants which indicated an average payroll of 41,500 per full-time employee. 2 Payroll estimated using Chicago Regional Economic Impact Model. Sources: On-Site Tenant Interviews; DuPage Airport Authority; Regional Economics Application Laboratory; Gruen Gruen + Associates. In 2012, an estimated 509 workers are employed at the DuPage Airport Authority, DuPage Flight center, on-site businesses at the DuPage Airport, Prairie Landing Golf Course, and DuPage Business Center. Annual payroll in 2012 is estimated at nearly 20 million. Payroll expenditures made by the DuPage Airport Authority and other on-site businesses stimulate the local economy as a portion of GRUEN GRUEN + ASSOCIATES PAGE 6
these dollars get recirculated in the form of personal consumption. The extent to which this income gets recirculated, producing induced economic impacts, largely depends on: (1) the proportion of wage and salary payments that become income to local households (i.e., households who reside in DuPage County), as opposed to non-local households; and (2) the magnitude of leakage, or purchases of goods and services made outside of the local area, in this case DuPage County. Table II-2 shows the geographic distribution of employment and payroll by county of residence for the 509 employees who work at the DAA and other businesses on DAA property. TABLE II-2 Geographic Distribution of Employment and Payroll by County of Residence DuPage County Outside DuPage County 2012 Employment # FTE 2012 Payroll 2012 Employment # FTE 2012 Payroll On-Site Tenants 1 92 3,835,000 216 8,947,000 DAA, Flight Center, & Prairie Landing Golf Course 44 2,450,000 57 1,628,000 DuPage Business Center 1 30 899,800 70 2,099,600 TOTAL 166 7,184,800 343 12,674,600 1 30 percent of employees are assumed to reside in DuPage County, based on data from the Census Bureau s Center for Economic Studies and interviews with on-site businesses. Source: DuPage Airport Authority; Regional Economics Application Laboratory; Gruen Gruen + Associates. Based on our interviews with a sample of on-site tenants, review of household-employer dynamics data from the Census Bureau s Center for Economics Studies, and estimates from the DuPage Airport Authority, we estimate 166 employees of the total 509 employees and associated annual payroll of 7.2 million will accrue to local DuPage County households. Non-Payroll Operating Expenditures Table II-3 summarizes estimates of non-payroll operating expenditures for the DuPage Airport, flight center, Prairie Landing Golf Center, on-site tenants, and DuPage Business Center in 2012. Non-payroll operating expenditures for various goods and services - such as supplies, utilities and telecommunications, materials, advertising and public relations, travel, office-related expenses, professional services, insurance, and maintenance operations - increase final demand of the affected industries or businesses for those goods and services produced within DuPage County. Purchases by the DAA and other activities operating on DAA property induce multiplier effects when suppliers of goods and services purchase additional inputs from upstream suppliers; and when all affected suppliers hire employees, who in turn make consumer purchases. GRUEN GRUEN + ASSOCIATES PAGE 7
TABLE II-3 Non-Payroll Expenditures Made Within DuPage County: 2012 Total Non-Fuel Expenditures Local DuPage County Non-Fuel Expenditures DAA Admin. & Operations 4,263,585 2,131,793 Flight Center 1,114,814 557,407 Prairie Landing Golf Course 1,472,773 736,387 On-site Tenants 13,421,100 6,710,550 DuPage Business Center 1 6,298,885 3,149,443 TOTAL 26,571,157 13,285,579 1 Total expenditure estimate based on payroll estimate from Chicago Regional Economic Impact Model. Sources: DuPage Airport Authority; Regional Economics Application Laboratory; Gruen Gruen + Associates. Our interviews with a sample of on-site businesses and the DAA indicate that fuel comprises the largest non-payroll expenditure item. On-site tenants purchase fuel directly from the DuPage Airport Flight Center, which in turn purchases fuel outside of DuPage County. Therefore, only total non-fuel expenditures of nearly 27 million are shown on the above table. The only non-fuel expenditures for the DAA administration and operations, flight center, and Prairie Landing Golf Course were estimated based on a review of the DuPage Airport Authority s budget. Estimates of non-fuel operating expenditures for on-site tenants were based on interviews which indicated a ratio of non-payroll to payroll expenses of approximately 2.1-to-1 and that approximately 50 percent of non-payroll expenses were for fuel purchases. Based on information provided by the DAA, we estimate that 50 percent of total non-payroll operating expenditures (excluding fuel), or approximately 13.3 million, are made within DuPage County. Capital Expenditures Table II-4 presents the estimated capital expenditures for 2012 provided by the DuPage Airport Authority. TABLE II-4 2012 Budgeted Capital Improvements for the DuPage Airport and Prairie Landing Golf Course: DuPage County Expenditures Local DuPage County Capital Total Capital Expenditures Expenditures Airport Equipment 602,500 301,250 Airport Field 10,232,690 5,116,345 Airport Building 3,005,000 1,502,500 Airport Flight Center 2,894,000 1,447,000 Prairie Landing Golf Course 1,049,500 524,750 TOTAL 17,783,690 8,891,845 Sources: DuPage Airport Authority; Gruen Gruen + Associates. GRUEN GRUEN + ASSOCIATES PAGE 8
The DAA estimates capital project expenditures for 2012 will total 17.8 million for both the DuPage Airport and the Prairie Landing Golf Course. The DAA estimates that approximately 50 percent of the total capital expenditures will be made to vendors and contractors within DuPage County, or approximately 8.9 million direct capital expenditures may be made within the County in 2012. Visitor Expenditures Visitors will generate economic and fiscal impacts through their expenditures made on lodging, retail goods, and dining. Table II-5 presents estimates of visitor hotel expenditures likely to be made within DuPage County in 2012. TABLE II-5 2012 Visitor Expenditures Made Within DuPage County 2012 Total # DuPage County % DuPage County Airport Visitors 80,000 Total Visitor-Days 1 100,000 Room Night Generation 1 60,000 Retail and Dining Expenditures 2 5,000,000 55.0 2,750,000 Hotel Expenditures 3 5,400,000 55.0 2,970,000 1 Assumes 50 percent of visitors stay overnight for an average of 1.5 nights. 2 Daily retail and food expenditures of 50. 3 Average daily room rate of 90 and 260 annual work days. Sources: DuPage Airport Authority; Gruen Gruen + Associates. The DAA estimates visitation in 2012 of approximately 80,000 visitors. This estimate is in part based on expected flight take-offs and landings for 2012. Based on our interviews and input from the DAA, we assume that one-half visitors will stay overnight for an average stay of 1.5 nights resulting in total visitor-days of 100,000. This includes more than 1,600 visitor-days related to flight take-offs and landings from federal government operations. Other major corporate users of the Airport, such as Menard s, also result in significant visitation. Menard s, which usually taxi s four flights a day for more than 360 days of the year, reportedly generates in excess of 20,000 visitors per year. Much of the overnight visitation related to the Airport is related to pilots and flight crew who travel through the Airport. Total room night demand (i.e. overnight stays) is estimated at 60,000. We assume an average daily rate of 90. Interviews with local area hotels in DuPage County near the Airport confirm the reasonableness of this assumption. Retail and dining expenditures made within DuPage County are assumed to total 50 per day. 1 Accordingly, annual visitor-related expenditures are estimated at 10.4 million. Based in estimates previously furnished by the DAA regarding visitor travel patterns, as described in the 2007 study prepared by Gruen Gruen + Associates, The Economic and Fiscal 1 According to the Illinois Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity, domestic visitors to Illinois spent 9.66 billion on food and dining, retail goods, and entertainment and recreation in Illinois in 2010; or the equivalent of 115 per visitor. GRUEN GRUEN + ASSOCIATES PAGE 9
Impact of the DuPage Airport Authority and Associated Activities on Chicago, DuPage County, and Kane County, we assume that 55 percent of visitor expenditures will occur within DuPage County. GRUEN GRUEN + ASSOCIATES PAGE 10
INTRODUCTION CHAPTER III THE ECONOMIC AND FISCAL IMPACT OF THE DUPAGE AIRPORT AUTHORITY AND ASSOCIATED ACTIVITIES ON THE DUPAGE COUNTY ECONOMY As described above, the operation of the DuPage Airport and associated activities directly and indirectly support jobs, income, and economic activity within the County. Based on the current operational characteristics of the DAA, Prairie Landing Golf Course, and on-site businesses, this chapter presents an estimate of the economic impact of Airport-related activities on the DuPage County economy. The DAA and on-site tenants also generate a broad variety of taxes and fees that accrue to local taxing entities. In this chapter, we focus specifically on the increased sources of tax revenue that, due to Airport-related activities, benefit the County of DuPage and local districts and municipalities within DuPage County. Because of the inherent difficulty in estimating indirect sources of fiscal benefit such as property value enhancement to nearby industrial and commercial uses or taxes paid by off-site businesses located in the County who utilize the Airport we primarily focus on the direct tax revenues resulting from Airport-related operations. Estimates of indirect sales tax revenue, however, are also presented based on the results of the IMPLAN input-output model. Such estimates quantify the entire chain of Airport-related economic activity that generates sources of local sales tax revenue. 2 2012 CONSTANT DOLLARS All income, output, and tax revenue estimates in this Chapter are expressed in constant 2012 dollars. That is, the possible effects of inflation or deflation are not considered. TOTAL ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE DUPAGE AIRPORT AND RELATED ACTIVITIES Table III-1 summarizes the total direct and indirect economic impacts on the DuPage County economy of all entities at the DAA including the DuPage Airport, DuPage Flight Center, on-site businesses, Prairie Landing Golf Course, and the DuPage Business Center. The total economic impacts encompass those related to payroll, non-payroll, capital, and visitor spending. Appendix A presents the impacts in more detail. 2 For example, the DuPage Airport Flight Center and Prairie Landing Golf Course generate direct sources of sales tax revenue through the sale of taxable goods such as food and beverage, fuel, and pro shop merchandise. They also support indirect sales tax revenues as a portion of the wages and salaries paid to on-site employees is spent within the County in the form of personal consumption; some of which then becomes income to the employees of the business providing those goods and services, who in turn also spend some of their income on personal consumption in the local economy, and so forth. This cycle is commonly referred to as re-circulation. GRUEN GRUEN + ASSOCIATES PAGE 11
TABLE III-1 Total Economic Impact of the DuPage Airport Authority and Related Activities on the DuPage County Economy in 2012 Output Income Employment # Jobs Direct 69,161,000 28,853,000 666 Indirect 48,296,000 16,605,000 297 Total 117,457,000 45,458,000 963 Multiplier 1.70 1.58 1.45 Sources: DuPage Airport Authority; Regional Economics Application Laboratory; MIG, Inc.; Gruen Gruen + Associates. The total direct and indirect employment impact of the Airport and related activities on the DuPage County economy is estimated at 963 jobs. The total direct and indirect income impact on the County is estimated at 45.5 million, or approximately 47,000 per job. The total output impact or the total volume of economic activity supported is estimated at 117 million. Expenditures made by the DAA, Prairie Landing Golf Course, on-site businesses, the tenant of the DuPage Business Center, and Airport visitors directly support 666 jobs within DuPage County. These expenditures directly generate 28.9 million of additional income within the County, or approximately 43,500 of income per job. Total direct output associated with the Airport and related activities is estimated at 69 million. Indirectly, Airport-related spending supports an additional 297 jobs within DuPage County and 16.6 million of income. The employment and income multipliers are 1.45 and 1.58 respectively, indicating that for every 10 directly-supported jobs, an additional 4.5 jobs are supported indirectly within the County; and for every 10 in direct income, an additional 5.80 is created indirectly. FISCAL IMPACT OF THE DUPAGE AIRPORT AND RELATED ACTIVITIES SOURCES OF REVENUE The Airport, including the Flight Center, Prairie Landing Golf Course, DuPage Business Center, and on-site businesses, directly generate the following sources of local tax revenue: Property and Leasehold Property Taxes; Sales Taxes; Hotel Taxes; Utility Taxes; and Telecommunication Taxes. PROPERTY TAXES Sources of property tax revenue include non-exempt DAA-owned property (such as farmland and the Flight Center, used for non-aviation purposes), the leasing of hangar space to commercial tenants, the Prairie Landing Golf Course, and development within the DuPage Business Center. GRUEN GRUEN + ASSOCIATES PAGE 12
Below in Table III-2 we present an estimate of 2012 property tax revenues generated by these sources. TABLE III-2 Estimate of 2012 Property Tax Revenues Directly Generated by Airport Activities 2012 Property Tax Revenues Source DAA - Flight Center 87,872 DAA - Administration 1 91,336 Prairie Landing Golf Course 250,000 On-Site Tenants (Leasehold Property Tax) 2 58,725 DuPage Business Center (Pella Windows) 139,349 Total 627,282 1 Includes property taxes on non-exempt farmland and vacant land in the DuPage Business Center. 2 The assessed value for leasehold properties is approximately 816,000 for the 2011 tax year (payable in 2012). Estimate based on 2011 tax rate in Winfield Township of approximately 7.20 per 100 of Equalized Assessed Value. Source: DuPage Airport Authority, 2012 Budget and Appropriations; DuPage County Supervisor of Assessments; Gruen Gruen + Associates. The DuPage Airport Authority expects to generate property tax revenues associated with the Flight Center and other non-exempt property of approximately 179,000 in 2012. Property taxes associated with the Prairie Landing Golf Course are projected to total 250,000 in 2012. The assessed value of leasehold properties 3 at the Airport for the current 2011 tax year totals approximately 816,000. This equates to approximately 59,000 in property tax revenues generated in 2012. Commercial property located in the DuPage Business Center (Pella Windows) has a current assessed value of approximately 1.69 million, which is estimated to generate approximately 139,000 in property tax revenue this year. In total, Airport-related property tax revenues are estimated at approximately 627,000 for 2012. As summarized below in Table III-3, the vast majority of Airport-related property tax revenues accrue to the local school districts. 3 A leasehold estate is created when the DAA leases property to a private entity for commercial use. Leasehold estates, although situated on otherwise tax exempt property, are subject to property taxes. GRUEN GRUEN + ASSOCIATES PAGE 13
TABLE III-3 Estimated Distribution of Airport-related Property Tax Revenues in 2012 1 2012 2012 % Local School Districts 445,400 71.0 Local Parks and Library Districts 57,800 9.2 West Chicago Fire District 56,900 9.1 City of West Chicago 37,600 6.0 County of DuPage 13,300 2.1 Wayne and Winfield Townships 14,700 2.3 Other 1,600 0.3 TOTAL 627,300 100.0 1 Figures are rounded. Based on the distribution of the 2010 tax year property tax rates for Wayne and Winfield Townships. Source: DuPage County Supervisor of Assessments; Gruen Gruen + Associates. Local school districts (including Grade School District 33, Unit School District 303, High School District 94, and Community College Districts 502 and 509) will receive more than 70 percent or 445,000 of 2012 property tax revenues generated. Local park and library districts will receive approximately 9.2 percent of total revenue or an estimated 58,000 in 2012 property taxes. A similar amount of revenue will accrue to the West Chicago Fire District. The City of West Chicago receives approximately six percent of Airport-related property tax revenue, estimated at just under 38,000 for 2012. An additional 13,000 in property tax revenue is expected to be generated for the County of DuPage. SALES TAXES Sales Tax Revenues Directly Generated Sources of sales tax revenue attributable to the DAA include Flight Center fuel sales, the Kitty Hawk Restaurant, and Prairie Landing Golf Course food and beverage and pro shop sales. In addition, visitors generate sales tax revenue from their expenditures on food, rental cars, gasoline and other goods. Table III-4 summarizes the estimated sales tax revenues generated by these activities associated with the operations of the Airport. Note that some on-site businesses do generate sales taxes, but that an estimate is not included below due to data limitations. GRUEN GRUEN + ASSOCIATES PAGE 14
TABLE III-4 Estimate of Total Sales Tax Revenue Directly Generated by Airport Activities Total Direct Sales Tax 2012 Sources Flight Center Fuel Sales 911,832 Kitty Hawk Restaurant 4,345 Prairie Landing Golf Course 82,257 On-Site Rental Car Facility 1 4,500 Subtotal 1,002,933 Airport Visitation 2 199,375 TOTAL 1,202,308 1 Occupancy tax revenues associated with on-site automobile rentals. 2 Includes only visitation-related expenditures estimated to be made within DuPage County. Sources: Illinois Department of Revenue; DuPage Airport Authority; Budget Rent A Car; Gruen Gruen + Associates. Total sales tax revenues directly generated by Airport activity are estimated at more than 1.2 million for 2012. The majority of sales tax revenues are comprised by Flight Center fuel sales, which approximate 912,000. Visitors to the Airport are estimated to generate approximately 200,000 of total sales tax revenues within DuPage County. Food, beverage, and merchandise sales at the Prairie Landing Golf Course represent the third largest source of sales tax revenue at just over 82,000. Table III-5 below summarizes the estimated distribution of the sales tax revenue generated. TABLE III-5 Estimated Allocation of Sales Tax Revenues Generated Total Direct Sales Tax 2012 Entity State of Illinois 785,401 City of West Chicago 226,203 DuPage County 78,165 Regional Transportation Authority 78,165 Other Local Municipalities Within DuPage County 1 27,500 DuPage Water Commission 6,875 TOTAL 1,202,308 1 Assuming a one percent municipal sales tax rate, not reflecting the possibility of Home Rule sales tax rates in other DuPage County municipalities. Sources: Illinois Department of Revenue; DuPage Airport Authority; Budget Rent A Car; Gruen Gruen + Associates. The majority, or 785,000, of 2012 sales tax revenues will accrue to the State of Illinois. The City of West Chicago collects the second largest amount of Airport-generated sales taxes estimated at GRUEN GRUEN + ASSOCIATES PAGE 15
226,000 for 2012. DuPage County and the Regional Transportation Authority are each estimated to receive 2012 sales tax revenues of approximately 78,000. Sales Tax Revenues Indirectly Generated Based on the results of the IMPLAN model, Table III-6 below summarizes an estimate of the sales tax revenues supported indirectly by Airport-related activity. TABLE III-6 Estimate of Local Sales Tax Revenue Indirectly Generated by Airport Activities Accommodation & Sector: Retail Trade Food Services Total Indirect Output 2,000,000 2,250,000 4,250,000 Indirect Sales /Revenue 1 5,700,000 2,250,000 7,950,000 Taxable 100% 50% Indirect Local Sales Tax 2 100,000 20,000 3 120,000 1 A gross margin of 35 percent is applied to retail output to derive an estimate of sales indirectly supported (because output in the retail trade sector is calculated in producer prices and not purchaser prices). 2 Assuming effective local sales tax rate of 1.75 percent (1.0 percent for cities, 0.5 percent for County, and 0.25 for the DuPage Water Commission). Does not reflect potential home rule tax rates. 3 Assuming 50 percent of indirect output in the Accommodation and food service sector relates to taxable services and goods (i.e. restaurants). Sources: MIG, Inc.; Gruen Gruen + Associates. Indirect output in the retail trade and accommodation and food service industries is estimated at approximately 4.25 million. This equates to approximately 8 million in gross sales or revenue. Assuming an effective local sales tax rate of 1.75 percent, and that one-half of sales in the accommodation and food services sector are taxable, total indirect sales tax revenue is estimated at 120,000 for local taxing entities. HOTEL TAXES Given the estimates of Airport-related visitation and visitor expenditures previously summarized in Chapter II, Table III-7 below summarizes an estimate of hotel tax revenues generated by Airport visitation. GRUEN GRUEN + ASSOCIATES PAGE 16
TABLE III-7 Estimate of Hotel Tax Revenue Generated by Airport Visitation 2012 Room Nights Generated in DuPage County 33,000 Average Daily Rate 90 Total DuPage County Hotel Revenue 2,970,000 Hotel Tax Revenues: State 1 Local 2 167,500 148,500 1 The State of Illinois imposes a six percent Hotel Operator occupation tax based on 94 percent of gross receipts. 2 Assumes an average municipal hotel tax rate within DuPage County of five percent. Source: Gruen Gruen + Associates Based on an average daily rate of 90 (which our interviews with a local hotel manager suggest is reasonable), Airport visitation is estimated to support nearly 3 million in DuPage County hotel revenue. The State of Illinois imposes a six percent Hotel Operator Occupation tax. This tax applies to 94 percent of gross room revenues. Municipal hotel tax rates in DuPage County generally range from three to six percent; we assume an average hotel tax rate of five percent of gross receipts. 4 We estimate that local DuPage County hotel tax revenue generated by visitors in 2012 will approximate 149,000. State hotel tax revenues are estimated at 166,000. TELCOMMUNICATION AND UTILITY TAXES Taxes on the consumption of telecommunications services are imposed at the rate of six percent of the cost of such services by the City of West Chicago and at a rate of seven percent by the State of Illinois. Thus, the combined telecommunications tax rate in West Chicago is 13 percent. According to the 2012 DAA Budget, telecommunication expenses associated with the operations of the Airport, Flight Center, and Prairie Landing Golf Course are expected to total approximately 75,000. This equates to approximately 740 per employee. Accordingly, total telecommunication expenditures related to all Airport activity (including on-site businesses) are estimated to total approximately 375,000. Table III-8 presents an estimate of telecommunication tax revenue generated by Airport activities. 4 The hotel tax rate imposed by the City of West Chicago, for example, is five percent of gross receipts. GRUEN GRUEN + ASSOCIATES PAGE 17
TABLE III-8 Estimate of Telecommunication Tax Revenue Generated by Airport Activities 2012 Total On-Site Employment at Airport 509 Telecommunication Expenses per Employee 743 Total Telecommunication Expenditures 377,970 Telecommunication Tax Revenues: State Local Source: Gruen Gruen + Associates 26,500 22,700 Total State and local telecommunication tax revenues are estimated at 49,000 for 2012. The City of West Chicago collects taxes on the consumption of electricity by the DAA and on-site businesses at the following rates: Monthly Consumption Tax Rate per Kilowatt-Hour 0-2,000 kilowatt-hours 0.555 cents (0.0055) 2,001-50,000 kilowatt-hours 0.384 cents 50,001-100,000 kilowatt-hours 0.383 cents 100,001-500,000 kilowatt-hours 0.323 cents (source: City of West Chicago, Code of Ordinances, Sec. 16-40.c) The City also imposes a utility tax on natural gas consumption at the rate of 2.5 cents (0.025) per therm. The State of Illinois imposes utility taxes at the rate of 0.32 cents per kilowatt hour and 2.4 cents per therm. Thus, utility taxes are consumption based. The 2012 DAA Budget indicates 2012 electric and gas expenditures are expected to total approximately 550,000. Based on current average energy prices in the Chicago Area, this is the equivalent of 2,415,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity and 231,000 therms of gas consumed. On the premise that other on-site businesses consume similar amounts of electricity and gas as does the DAA, Table III-9 below presents an estimate of utility tax revenues generated by all Airport-related activity. GRUEN GRUEN + ASSOCIATES PAGE 18
TABLE III-9 Estimate of Utility Tax Revenue Generated by Airport Activities 2012 Total On-Site Employment at Airport 509 Electricity Consumption per Employee 23,911 kwh Total Electric Consumption 12,170,500 kwh Gas Consumption per Employee 2,289 therms Total Gas Consumption 1,164,900 terms Utility Tax Revenues: State 1 66,900 Local 2 76,600 1 Based on rates of 0.0032 per kilowatt-hour and 0.024 per therm. 2 Based on rates of 0.0039 per kilowatt-hour and 0.025 per therm. Source: Gruen Gruen + Associates Based on the assumptions described above, in 2012 the DAA and related activities will generated approximately 67,000 of State utility tax revenue and 77,000 in local utility tax revenue for the City of West Chicago. GRUEN GRUEN + ASSOCIATES PAGE 19
APPENDIX A ECONOMIC IMPACTS ON DUPAGE COUNTY BY COMPONENT OF AIRPORT-RELATED ACTIVITY: 2012 Output Income Employment # Jobs Payroll: Direct 19,859,000 19,859,000 509 Indirect 28,802,000 9,886,000 176 Total 48,661,000 29,745,000 685 Multiplier 2.45 1.50 1.35 Non-Payroll: Direct 26,571,000 4,768,000 67 Indirect 9,973,000 3,465,000 63 Total 36,544,000 8,233,000 130 Multiplier 1.38 1.73 1.94 Capital Expenditures: Direct 17,784,000 2,486,000 38 Indirect 5,635,000 1,897,000 33 Total 23,419,000 4,383,000 71 Multiplier 1.32 1.76 1.87 Visitor Expenditures: Direct 4,947,000 1,740,000 52 Indirect 3,886,000 1,357,000 25 Total 8,833,000 3,097,000 77 Multiplier 1.79 1.78 1.48 TOTAL: Direct 69,161,000 28,853,000 666 Indirect 48,296,000 16,605,000 297 Total 117,457,000 45,458,000 963 Multiplier 1.70 1.58 1.45 Sources: DuPage Airport Authority; Regional Economics Application Laboratory; MIG, Inc.; Gruen Gruen + Associates. GRUEN GRUEN + ASSOCIATES PAGE 20
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