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TABLE VI COST PER TYPICAL CITY OWNED PROPERTY ABATEMENT Minutes Rate Cost FIELD TIME Initial investigation 25 Post abatement inspection 15 Total 40 = .67 hrs x $17.29 / hr = $11.58 OFFICE TIME Draft work order 35 Process billing invoice 10 Total 45 = .75 hrs x $17.29 / hr = $12.97 VEHICLE USAGE TIME Sedan with radio 40 = .67 hrs x $5.00 / hr = $ 3.35 MATERIALS & SERVICES Stationary, printing, & copying $ .52 City Property Activity Cost Per Abatement = $28.42 When we multiply the activity cost for a typical City owned property abatement by the previously mentioned Maintenance Division overhead rate of 32.8 %, we get a calculated overhead cost of $9.32. Added to the calculated typical activity cost for such an abatement of $28.42, we get a total of $37.74 incurred by the City in the abatement of City owned property vegetation nuisances. However, in order to utilize the contractor's time efficiently, many of these work orders included as many as 15 individual taxlots being cut simultaneously. The 85 abatements (work orders) of City property during the 1989 field season actually involved 614 parcels of City land. This equates to 7.2 parcels of City property dealt with per abatement and a resultant cost of only $5.24 per parcel. II. OPERATIONS COSTS PER MANAGEMENT CATEGORY The table on the following page (Table VII) illustrates the breakdown of the Vegetation Management Program's 1989 operational expenditures between the 3 management categories. The percent of each line item as well as the resultant dollar figures are itemized under each categorical heading. As previously mentioned, expenditures inherent to all 3 management categories will either be divided equally between categories, allocated by the percentage of the program's operation time per category, or allocated according to percentages based on calculated or documented costs per category. Vegetation Program Cost Analysis 12