Agenda - Public Works Committee - 01/21/2003

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I I neighborhood adopt-a-stream programs to assist in . I compliance and build public support Pollution Prevention/Good Housekeeping for Municipal Operations 1. Review all current municipal 1. Conduct an outside review of all applicable procedures .procedures an(~ document ways and criteria and make recommendations for change, to reduce pollution mplement changes 2, Make changes and document 2. Obtain available information and conduct sensitivity 3. Obtain and distribute materials and familiarization training for all applicable city on ways to reduce pollution as employees available and appropriate. 3. Seek to control floatables partially ~hrough adopt-a- stream program (see public participation) 4. Review existing flood control projects to insure advantage is taken of pollution reduction opportunities in design and operati0.n Table 2, Which is attached as an Appendix, gives basic cost-estimate information for the two programs. The costs are approximate .and would vary depending on how all costs are accounted for, availability of staff, etc. The intent is to give ba. llpark estimates and not to quibble over details. In these estimates all personnel time is costed at $50/hr regardless of the source of the labor (in-house or contracted). This corresponds to a fully burdened salary rate plus allocated overhead costs.for a mid-level technical person. Hours are given in most cases. Italicized numbers are one-time costs that are experienced some time in the first permit period, assumed to fill the year in which they initiate. For ongoing programs, the program initiates beginning in the next year. The annual costs are the anticipated costs thereafter. I have assumed that all programs initiate in year one for the total five-year cost estimate. Obviously if a program initiates in a later year there will be savings in annual costs not incurred until the program initiates. The five-year total is four times the annual cost plus the initial cost -- making a total of five years. Some programs are five-year programs only, ending' after the first cycle. A schedule of tasks and of manpower requirements is not developed in this paper. The costs are given-as initial costs and as ongoing costs (clear from the context of the table). Because not all program elements will be developed and in-place for the whole permit term, there will be a ramp-up process. Aisc, most of the program elements will continue to change and evolve over time, and program costs will also change (up or down) in subsequent permit periods. Extraordinary Volunteer efforts have not been assumed (e.g. writing: news articles, manning a hotline, etc.). It is important to realize that some per capita costs go down for large cities because they have a large fixed component. For example, it may cost the same to develop a one-page brochure whether the city .has 20,000 or 200,000 people in it. Expenses are based on medium levels of effort wherever appropriate. Detailed expenses (e.g. long distance phone costs) have not been estimated. 37