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Details of annual rent control expenditures -- 2011 According to city documents, approximately $170,000 was shown as expended on total 2011 rent control related activities. Of that ONLY $77,796 was on "permanent employees" and another $23,700 on employee related costs, for a total of approximately $100,000 in 2011. Of the remaining $70,000 only $10,000 was spent on "General Administration Allocations."* This would be the amount determined for the General Funds' activities on behalf of rent control and brings the total recorded amount of staff related expenditures to $110,000 in 2011. *This "allocation" should include everything from the City Manager and treasures time, to the Housing Director, City Attorney, code enforcement inspectors, etc. Clearly, $10;000 does not cover all these staffing costs. The remaining funds were allocated as follows: • Management info services (IT) $9,564 • Building rent $7,008 (rent was reduced from $20,900 in 1999, as high as $38,000 in 2002, and gradually dropping to $17,160 in 2010. There does NOT appear to be any consistent formula for rent charged over the years. (Meaning the city either significantly reduced its rental fees or significantly reduced its rent control related space occupancy.) • Building debt service $10,428 (2011 is the first year this expenditure was shown as a separate line item.) • PERS (retirement costs) $1,225 • Risk Management expenditure of $24,984 was charged in 2011. $90,741 in 2010, and $81,181 in 2009. The rent control fund was NEVER charged by risk management in previous years. Absent in 2011 charges to the rent control fund is: • Community Service mobile home park Inspection costs. In 2009 $18,000 was charged to the rent control fund, which was consistent with the previous ten years of annual inspection costs. Why hasn't that been billed since then and are the costs now being covered by the General Fund? • Redevelopment billed rent control fund approximately $15,000 a year through 2006 and then stopped. How were these costs covered the Following five years? • Consultants* was last billed at $84,333 in 2009. *This is where city paid much of its outside legal bills from rent control since 1999.