Centre For Local Research into Public Space (CELOS)
Dear Sue,
I've been working on a report about the cost of running Dufferin Grove Park, for the September newsletter. The report is based on the attached SAP reports I got through Freedom of Information. Here are my estimated summaries of the costs of recreation programming over the last four years at Dufferin Grove (repeated as an attached version, if you prefer that). Could you please give this summary document a quick read to point out any major errors and also give me an estimate of the cost of the "not included" section (in blue)?
Thank you.
2011: Part-time Rec Staff: $290,901 (including benefits) + wading pool: $13,830 (estimated, incl. benefits) + 1 full time CRP staff: $94,000 (estimated incl. benefits) = $398,731
SAP Materials/supplies costs for Dufferin Grove: $44,235
SAP Additional estimated wading pool costs per wading pool: $550
Total SAP Rec cost for Dufferin Grove: $443,516 minus $16,126 income = $427,390
2012: Part-time Rec Staff: $284,235 (including benefits) + wading pool: $13,157 (estimated, incl. benefits) + 1 full time CRP staff: $95,000 (estimated incl. benefits) = $392,392
SAP Materials/supplies costs for Dufferin Grove: $56,134
SAP Additional estimated wading pool costs per wading pool: $550
Total SAP Rec cost for Dufferin Grove: $449,076 minus $55,636 income = $393,440
2013: Part-time Rec Staff: $324,639 (including benefits) + wading pool: $14,111 (estimated, incl. benefits) + 1 full time CRP staff: $96,000 (estimated incl. benefits) = $434,750
SAP Materials/supplies costs for Dufferin Grove: $141,687
SAP Additional estimated wading pool costs per wading pool: $550
Total SAP Rec cost for Dufferin Grove: $576,987 minus $156,257 income = $420,730
2014: Part-time Rec Staff: $362,277 (including benefits) + wading pool: $13,822 (estimated, incl. benefits) + 1 full time CRP staff: $96,400 (estimated incl. benefits) = $472,499
SAP Materials/supplies costs for Dufferin Grove: $153,787
SAP Additional estimated wading pool costs per wading pool: $550
Total SAP Rec cost for Dufferin Grove: $626,836 minus $171,820 income = $455,016
Additional expenses possibly not included:
Corporate services such as materials-purchasing including central grocery contracts, payroll and revenue data entry, health and safety inspections, fire extinguisher checks, by-law inspections, public health inspections of wading pool and farmers’ market
“FRED” (facilities and real estate) repairs
Supervisory activities by management (i.e. by non-union positions)
Hello Lennox,
I've been working on a report about the cost of running Dufferin Grove Park, for the September newsletter. The report is partly based on the attached SAP report I got through Freedom of Information. Since there is no specific cost centre for Dufferin Grove applied to Parks work (nor to to the AIRs), here are my estimates of the cost of doing the outside work (also here as an attachment). Could you please give it a quick look to point out any major errors and also an estimate of the "not included" section (in blue)?
Thank you. Jutta
Parks:
Regularly scheduled weekly/monthly:
Garbage pickup:
daily July August 1 hour x 2 people x $47 an hour per person ($35 plus 33.5%) = $94 per pickup x 62 days = $5,828
3 times a week May, June, September, October: $94 x 17 weeks x 3 = $4,794
2 x a week (recycling, compost and garbage by rink house) x 52 weeks x 1 hour x 2 people ($94) = $4888
Park litter picking:
July August ($27 plus 33.5% = $36) 1 person daily 1 hour = $1674
3 x a week May, June, September, October: $36 x 17 weeks x 3 = $1868
Extra trash pickup (garden waste, ashes) : June. July, August, September: ($27 plus 33.5% = $36) 2 persons once a week x 1 hour x 18 weeks = $1296
Field house washrooms: open and close, clean, middle of May to Oct.31: 2 hours a day, ($27 plus 33.5% = $36) 2 people for 24 weeks: $3456
One extra W/C cleaning visit daily for July/August is 1 hour x 2 people x 62 days = $4464
Mower/leaf mulch every 2 weeks May to October: 1 person ($27 pus 33.5% = $36) 3 hours x 13 times = $1404
Garden cleanup 3 x a year, 3 people, one at $47 an hour, 2 at $36 an hour, 3 hours ($141 plus $216 = $357) x 3 occasions = $1071
Total for regularly scheduled weekly/monthly: $30,743
As needed or irregularly scheduled:
Bench and table repairs, wasp’s nests, playground inspection and repairs, washroom painting (including minor capital), graffiti removal, pot holes, path and stair maintenance, etc.): estimated $45,000
Tech Services repairs: park lights, plumbing problems including soccer irrigation system, gas lines: estimated $10,000
Natural gas, water, external hydro (not including rink hydro already included in rec budget): estimated $15,000
Forestry (tree limbs down, new trees, watering): estimated $8500
Onsite supervision of Dufferin Grove work: estimated $3000
Total Parks cost estimate for DG: $112,243
Not included: new benches, rebuilt stairs, Quonset garage with new utilities, reflexology path, new cob courtyard counter – i.e. larger minor capital and smaller major capital projects.
Not included: purchasing of materials, payroll, site meetings and management time.
Ice Rink:
– entire AIR cost S-Central 2014 was $1,986,345. South Central has 22 rinks of which 8 are double pads and 14 single pads. Take half the total assigned to the doubles = $993,172. Divide that by 8 doubles =
$124,146 estimate for Dufferin.
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