| 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 |