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ACTIVITY COSTS PER FULL TERM ABATEMENT <br />The following 3 tables will document the operations activity time and material <br />costs for a typical full term abatement in each of the program's 3 management <br />categories. These costs do not include the contractor's charges billed to the <br />City, nor any overhead or administrative costs, and should not be considered <br />as a final owner billed amount. The costs derived from these tables are for <br />the various abatement activities (taken directly from the activity time matrix <br />of Table I) and any vehicle and equipment usage based on an hourly rate. The <br />time spent on answering property owner's billing protests, the time spent in <br />retrieving property descriptions for filing nonpayment liens, and the time <br />spent in sending courtesy notifications to undeveloped property owners (where <br />the City ended up abating such property anyway) all generate costs that must <br />be considered as part of the full term abatement process. As such, the time <br />(documentable from Table II) and resultant costs of such activities in each <br />category will be divided by the number of abatements per category and included <br />as part of the typical abatement cost. <br />TABLE A <br />COST PER TYPICAL DEVELOPED PROPERTY ABATEMENT <br />Minutes Rate Cost <br />FIELD TIME <br />Initial investigation 35 <br />2nd inspection 15 <br />Property posting 15 <br />3rd inspection 15 <br />Post abatement inspection 15 <br />Total 95 = 1.58 hrs x $17.29 / hr = $27.37 <br />OFFICE TIME <br />Enter complaint data <br />12 <br />Research property owner <br />8 <br />Issue notification letter <br />11 <br />Mail posting notice <br />8 <br />Draft work order <br />35 <br />Process billing invoice <br />22 <br />Total 96 = 1.60 hrs x $17.29 / hr = $27.66 <br />VEHICLE USAGE TIME <br />Sedan with radio 95 = 1.58 hrs x $5.00 / hr = $ 7.90 <br />MATERIALS & SERVICES <br />Stationary, printing, & copying $ 2.11 <br />Posters, stakes $ .30 <br />$ 4.85 <br />Postage <br />Documented Activity Cost Per Abatement = $70.19 <br />Vegetation Program <br />Cost Analysis 12 <br />