The city's final costs for the 2007 Halloween street party show the $75,800 gross cost is almost $11,000 less than last year.
City workers were paid at total of almost $68,000 for Halloween weekend, according to the 2007 summary report provided by Ray Hazlett, service-safety director.
Preliminary numbers reported yesterday indicated the labor costs were $61,871, which contributed to $69,513 gross cost estimate.
Nine different city departments accumulated about 1,441 hours of overtime, according to the cost report.
Total police staffing costs, which includes outside help from law enforcement officers, composed about half of the total labor costs. Athens Police Department officers were paid almost $16,700 of the total labor costs for the weekend, according to the report.
Outside mounted officer assistance to Athens police cost $5,343 for wages, food and travel. Out-of-town patrol officers were paid $4,425 in wages, according to the report.
Booking costs by the courthouse totaled $4,282, including approximately an $1,230 fee for the 27 individuals who spent a day in jail Saturday night and $1,920 for the staff of the Athens County Sheriff's Office on Friday and Saturday nights.
The city spent an additional $7,902 on materials such as food, generators and portable toilets, according to the cost report.
Revenue totals of $9,285 were still short of the almost $12,500 brought in last year, according to the cost reports. The $66,515 net loss to the city is nearly $8,000 less than last year.
No final numbers for the departments were particularly striking, Hazlett said, adding that one of his goals for this year's festival was to utilize city employees more effectively.
It's pretty similar to what it was last year at this point
he said.
Citations for parking, trash and other code violations are not viewed as contributions to the city and are not totaled in these numbers, Hazlett said.
Their objective isn't to generate revenue it's supposed to be a deterrent he said.
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