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PURPOSE <br /> The goal of this analysis is to examine and accurately document all the costs, <br /> except for contractor's charges, incurred by the City's Vegetation Management <br /> Program in the abatement of vegetation nuisances on developed, undeveloped, <br /> and City owned properties. Using the program's statistics and expenditures <br /> for calendar year 1989 as data,' this analysis shall attempt to logically <br /> structure and examine such data so that the costs for the various program <br /> components and categories can be accurately separated. These documented <br /> operations and administrative expenses will be employed in the calculation of <br /> a typical cost for City performed abatements in all 3 management categories as <br /> well as calculating the City's cost incurred in the resolution of those <br /> nuisances that are abated by property owners themselves. Ultimately these <br /> calculated costs can be employed in the development and justification of a new <br /> property owner billing schedule for those abatements performed by the City . <br /> OVERVIEW <br /> The Vegetation Management Program is currently comprised of 3 fairly distinct <br /> categories of responsibility: enforcement of developed property nuisances; <br /> enforcement of undeveloped property nuisances; and maintenance of City owned <br /> property. Due to the different time requirements involved in the management <br /> and code enforcement for these categories, program costs must be examined and <br /> accurately divided before we can clearly determine what per abatement costs <br /> are for each management category. To this end, this exercise will examine the <br /> average operations time required for each enforcement function by the use of <br /> an enforcement activity time matrix. The average function times provided <br /> through the use of this matrix will enable us to not only calculate the total <br /> annual operations time devoted per management category, but to analyze the <br /> exact operations costs incurred in a typical abatement within each category. <br /> In addition to the day to day operations costs involved in the resolution of <br /> vegetation complaints, there are some general overall administrative costs <br /> associated with the management of this program. In order to fully document <br /> the difference between the program's daily operation expenses and the overall <br /> administrative expenses, each will be addressed separately in this analysis. <br /> As such, part of this analysis shall examine and document those City incurred <br /> time and material costs involved in the day to day resolution of vegetation <br /> complaints within the 3 management categories. From this data an average <br /> operating cost per complaint can be calculated in each management category for <br /> both those complaints that must be abated by the City and those that are <br /> 1 A comparison of the Vegetation Management Program's 1987, 1988, and <br /> 1989 enforcement operations statistics can be found in Exhibit B at the rear <br /> of this document. <br /> Vegetation Program <br /> Cost Analysis 1 <br />