At 11:27 PM -0600 11/14/02, Michael Rewey wrote: >One thing that continues to trouble me is Ken LePine's statement about >much the maintenance cost is. $27,000 comes out to $3,000 per mile. >That is way out of line for a paved trail. Typically paved trails are >less than $1,000 per mile per year (without plowing). Ken needs to be >made accountable for the stated maintenance cost. > > What year is being reported? > Itemize the costs - what is being spent on what? > What isn't necessary and could be eliminated or reduced? > What is the up-to-date cost for calendar 2002?
At the meeting, LePine gave us a spreadsheet printout of costs; the items were listed with code numbers. Robbie asked for an explanation of the codes, which LePine offered to give us. The spreadsheet covers the dates 12/13/01 -- 10/20/02. At the meeting, LePine referred to activities such as removing leaves and acorns. This is a consequence of having the trail go through wooded parkland. One could argue that this is a safety issue. Robbie asked further whether the activities included things like plantings to stabilize the soil; this would presumabably be a one-time activity. I don't think LePine answered this directly. The printout contains references to items like 'chipper' and 'bobcat'. I suspect that at least some of the activities are 'park maintenance' and not trail maintenance per se. Here I'm making a distinction between things that would be done in any park, vs. things that need to be done to make the trail useful. At the meeting, I asked how much of this activity could be taken up by volunteers. LePine responded that only 10% or 20% could be done by others than staff (the rest involved using chippers, etc). -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Darin Burleigh |><|\/|/\|-o [EMAIL PROTECTED] |<>|/\|\/|-o _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
