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additional 130 minutes of program time. Added together, these abatement related activities required 5,670 minutes, or 94.50 hours of the Vegetation Manager's time. When multiplied by the Vegetation Manager's wage and benefit rate of $17.29 per hour this equates to $1,633.90 worth of personal services spent on these activities. Divided by the 139 full term undeveloped property abatements performed by the City in 1989 we get an additional $11.75 to be added to the documented activity cost per undeveloped property abatement. Added to the $56.10 from the above table gives a total activity cost of $67.85 for each undeveloped property abatement. TABLE VIII 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 Since there are no property owner protests to reply to, no nonpayment lien property descriptions to retrieve, and no notifications given for City owned property, the activity cost of $28.42 derived from the above table is all that is documentable for each abatement on City property. However, in order to utilize the contractor's time efficiently, many of these abatements included as many as 15 individual taxlots being cut on the same work order. 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 $3.95 in operations activity costs per parcel. Vegetation Program Cost Analysis 14