TASKS STANDARD FREQUENCY FREQ. IN THE DDA DISTRICT ANNUAL CITY COSTS IN DDA CITY: COST RECOVERY FROM DDA Add’l information about City cost recovery in the downtown
Street Tree Trimming 7-9 year cycle 2-year cycle $12,480 0
Street tree replacement As needed Immediately $8,320 $50,000 DDA does nearly all replacements plus gave the City $100,000 in grants for downtown ash tree removals
Flower planting/ maintenance Planting 1X yr, maint. 1X/wk Daily $12,480 0 $7,500 DDA annually pays for flowers; merchants pay for watering
Street light amenities Regulation spacing Double density $34,621 0 $670,000 grant for LEDs reduced City energy & maintenance costs
GFCI outlet maintenance NA All $2,439 0 DDA pays for all GFCIs
Historic marker cleaning NA Monthly $3,494 0
Liberty & Sculpture Plaza maintenance 14-16 day cycle Daily $7,280 0 $400,000 from DDA to repair both plazas – saved Parks Millage $
Street Refuse Can Pickup Weekly Daily $195,631 0
Graffiti removal As needed As needed $11,660 0
Pothole repairsSnow removal Street sweeping 48 hr response24 hr response 4-5X year SameSame 3-5X week $670,000 $670,000 Is now closer to $800,000 due to inflationary increases
Signage maintenance Regulation spacing Double density $24,489 0 DDA has paid for dozens of signs
IT operations As needed As needed $6,000 0 DDA has its own IT – doesn’t use City
Finance On going On going $51,000 0 DDA has own- doesn’t use the City
YMCA resident housing-management Beginning April 05 On going $50,000 0 $300,000 so far for purchase, $1,500,000 to demo Y building
Historic preservation – 33% of city total Ongoing Ongoing $12,400 0
Master planning – 5% of city total Ongoing Ongoing $2,800 0 $175,000 grant for Calthorpe, $20,000 grant for NonMotorized Plan
Special Events–45% of total Ongoing Ongoing $25,200 0 City reimbursed by event organizers?
Fire – 10.87% of total Annually Annually $1,357,681 0 Includes responses to Campus & near neighborhoods outside DDA
Police – 16.86% of total Annually Annually $3,761,099 0 Adam District incl service to U/M & neighborhoods outside DDA
10 beat officers assigned to downtown Annually Annually $613,651 0 There were never 10. Currently only 6 assigned to downtown
Special event police overtime Annually Annually $23,876 0 City reimbursed by event organizers?
What the City showed as its total in (2005) $6,886,701 $720,000
What was omitted from the list: City taxes from DDA District $3,629,000 In 2008 city taxes were almost $3.9 million
Parking fines $2,000,000 80% of total $2.5 million collected
Permits, fees, special events, etc. $ 500,000 estimate
Estimate for downtown city rev’s $6,886,701 $6,849,000