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*MI '411110 November 16, 1992 Charles 0. Porter 132 East Broadway Eugene, OR 97401 SUBJECT: Morse Ranch Park Dear Mr. Porter: Debra Posen of the City Attorney's office forwarded your request for an ac- counting of City funds spent at the Morse Ranch park in 1992. The date stat- ed that you needed this material was prior to November 19, 1992. I regret that our record keeping procedures don't readily make this specific of infor- mation available. We do not track funds spent for maintenance by the various city crews at individual parks such as Morse Ranch separately. To provide this information we would need to research the various supervisor's diary to determine when personnel was at the park and then examine all Parks Mainte- nance materials invoices and employee timecards since January of this year. The types of on-going maintenance activities we would need to research would include; rough mowing the pasture and fine mowing of the developed areas; garbage pickup and disposal ; maintenance of the picnic tables; and mainte- nance on the structures just to name a few items. Some of the special items would include staff time on preparation and review of the master plan, coor- dination of volunteer activities, and response to public complaint. I would hazard a guess that if our office manager was available to research these issues the time needed to do so would exceed 40 hours and an approximate cost of $ 900.00. With the reductions to staff and resources we recently incurred I'm afraid a low priority would be established for such a research project. Debra said you asked about the cost of fencing and chips recently placed in the east pasture. Construction of the fence was done by a mix of city staff and contract. Staff costs was approximately $ 1,700 for materials and $ 2,400 for labor. The contract cost was for $ 5,912.70. The chips used on the trails are salvaged materials. These chips are obtained by "chipping-up" the limbs and branches removed from city trees in our tree maintenance pro- gram. The delivery of two loads of chips into the east pasture required the use of a dump truck and two people for approximately three hours. I would estimate this cost to be approximately $ 150.00. The placement and spreading of the chips was performed by volunteers. I hope the above has answered some of your questions. I regret that we can't provide more detailed information about specific park expenses. Sincerely;' • J. R. Medlin Maintenance Support Manager cc: Bob Hammitt, Dick Morgan, Debra Posen