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additional 130 minutes of program time. Added together, these abatement <br /> related activities required 5,670 minutes, or 94.50 hours of the Vegetation <br /> Manager's time. When multiplied by the Vegetation Manager's wage and benefit <br /> rate of $17.29 per hour this equates to $1,633.90 worth of personal services <br /> spent on these activities. Divided by the 139 full term undeveloped property <br /> abatements performed by the City in 1989 we get an additional $11.75 to be <br /> added to the documented activity cost per undeveloped property abatement. <br /> Added to the $56.10 from the above table gives a total activity cost of $67.85 <br /> for each undeveloped property abatement. <br /> TABLE VIII <br /> COST PER TYPICAL CITY OWNED PROPERTY ABATEMENT <br /> Minutes Rate Cost <br /> FIELD TIME <br /> Initial investigation 25 <br /> Post abatement inspection 15 <br /> Total 40 = .67 hrs x $17.29 / hr = $11.58 <br /> OFFICE TIME <br /> Draft work order 35 <br /> Process billing invoice 10 <br /> Total 45 = .75 hrs x $17.29 / hr = $12.97 <br /> VEHICLE USAGE TIME <br /> Sedan with radio 40 = .67 hrs x $5.00 / hr = $ 3.35 <br /> MATERIALS & SERVICES <br /> Stationary, printing, & copying $ .52 <br /> City Property Activity Cost Per Abatement = $28.42 <br /> Since there are no property owner protests to reply to, no nonpayment lien <br /> property descriptions to retrieve, and no notifications given for City owned <br /> property, the activity cost of $28.42 derived from the above table is all that <br /> is documentable for each abatement on City property. However, in order to <br /> utilize the contractor's time efficiently, many of these abatements included <br /> as many as 15 individual taxlots being cut on the same work order. The 85 <br /> abatements (work orders) of City property during the 1989 field season <br /> actually involved 614 parcels of City land. This equates to 7.2 parcels of <br /> City property dealt with per abatement and a resultant cost of only $3.95 in <br /> operations activity costs per parcel. <br /> Vegetation Program <br /> Cost Analysis 14 <br />