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From: Angelia Doerner
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2018 10:31 PM
To: Council
Subject: Agenda Item 6 - Annual Street Work
Please include in Council Desk Item for Item #6.
I think it would be interesting to see a schedule listing (and summing) the amounts identified as "Project
Delivery Costs" (i.e., primarily Staff Costs ?) noted in Project Cost Estimates/Approved Budgets for each
of the PPW CIP projects in the last and current Fiscal Years.
As an example, Item 6 on tonight's Agenda (Annual Street Work) shows $206,387 and Item 7 (Annual
Sidewalks) shows $10,316 for a total of $216,703 of "Project Delivery Costs". That is essentially
equivalent to the annual, fully-loaded salary cost for a Senior Civil Engineer ($210,000) as approved on
Feb 7 '17 for the "Measure B" position.
So, for illustrative purposes, the "Project Delivery Costs" for Agenda Items 6+7, absorbs more than the
fully-loaded annual salary cost of the Town's Measure B position. However, other than the time to
prepare the bid materials being considered tonight, and standard contract execution time, the vast
majority of staff efforts, or "Delivery Costs", is expected to be expended in approximately no more than
a four month period (June - Sept).
Does this make sense - for:
* Routine, recurring,
* Relatively the same scope as last year's,
* In two Town areas of close proximity
(limited travel time between sites)
???
Now consider the fiscal year's combined CIP "Project Delivery Costs" in relation to the annual PPW
operating budget. Just curious...
Angelia Doerner
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