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Actual Staff Costs of Rent Control Much Higher <br />While the city appears to obscure the full internal staff costs of rent control, these are the two <br />primary departments which are involved in rent control activities: <br />• Housing & Neighborhood Services <br />• Legal (city attorney) <br />The Neighborhood Services Director, the Housing Program Manager and the Assistant City <br />Attorney spend significant amount of their time on mobile home related activities. In addition <br />these activities would require administrative support and additional overhead costs. <br />The current annual costs of these three significant management positions who work on rent <br />control issues is $550,000. See Chart below: <br />Total Salary <br />Total Modifiers <br />Sala + Modifiers <br />Margery Pierce <br />Neighborhood Services. Director <br />$ 155,731 <br />$ 53,589 <br />$ 209,320 <br />Angie Hanifin <br />Housing Program Mana er <br />$ 95,444 <br />$ 33,510 <br />$ 128,954 <br />Barbara Hamilton <br />_ <br />Assistant City Attorney <br />$ 162,201 <br />$ 51,731 <br />$ 213,932 <br />Note: "modifiers" include health benefits, retirement, etc. <br />Source: City of Oceanside <br />$1.9 million estimated additional costs 1999-2011. <br />For the purpose of this study, we are assuming that these positions spend only 45% of their <br />time on rent control related activities, or $250,000. It is very likely these actual costs plus other <br />unreported staffing costs are significantly higher. In order to estimate the costs to date (1999- <br />2011) of just these three positions, we calculated an estimated annual cost of $150,000 a year <br />over 13 years. So the additional cost to the city since 1999 is estimated at $1.9 million. <br />Ongoing annual staff costs are estimated at over $360,000 per year (2012 dollars). This includes <br />an "unreported" amount of approximately $250,000 and a "reported" amount of $110,000 per <br />year. <br />