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C. Present Capacity of Public Facilities and Adequacy of Public Services Existing public facilities and services are adequate for serving The needs of Ripon's population. The Ripon Consolidated Fire District has adequate staff and facilities to provide for existing populations. and is in the process of planning for new joint facilities 111th the Ripon Police Department to better serve growing populations. Ripon's police department also has adequate staff and facilities to provide for existing populations. and as mentioned above is in the process of planning for new joint facilities with the Ripon Consolidated Fire District. The City s crater supply. wastewater, storm drainage and refuge collection services are also adequate to meet the needs of the existing population. The determinations included in Chapter 3 of this MSR show that public facilities and services are adequate to meet the needs of the current population and are master planned and continuously being improved so as to meet the needs of future populations as well. D. Social and Economic Communities of Interest The residents of Ripon share social and economic interests with the adjacent rnrnnnrnities of Manteca and Modesto as well as a variety of more local communities of interest, such as numerous businesses, schook churches. public sector facilities and other Community Service programs that sm-e the residents of this community. The existing social fabric of the City will not change substantially by the proposed changes to the SOI. It is likely, however, that this chame will be positive, bringing in new families and economic buying power as well as possible revenues that could help the City's budget_ Expansion of industrial. commercial and retail areas could bring jobs and economic growth into the City. The City of Ripon shares a Sphere of Imfhrence and Area of Interest boundary with the City of Manteca. which is directly west. Ripon has worked with the City of Manteca in developing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). The ptupose of the MOU is to develop a cooperative understanding of where each city's ultimate boundary will be as each city expands towards the Other. The MOU outlines the areas that are currently within the Manteca General Plan and Ripon General Pian area that were exchanged between the two cities. The MOU, which was adopted by the City of Ripon on July 15. 2008 and the City of Manteca on July 21, 2008. identifies issues of joint concern, including community separators, and sets forth both parties understanding as to how those issues may be addressed. Figure 1.4 illustrates the area of exchange agreed upon by the MOLT between the two cities. The areas that were exchanged between Ripon and Manteca actually lie outside the City of Ripon's SOI. however the exchanged areas are part of Ripon's proposed Area of Interest.