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Does anyone know what sharp shooters charge per deer in the city. Any one here from Iowa City know how they do it? Thanks
 
I looked at the Iowa City Deer Management website and didn't see any per deer costs, but I'm guessing around $1,000 for each deer. I arrive at that value because they shoot about a hundred a year and charge about $110K (from memory).
 
This is a spreadsheet I put together from the Iowa City Annual Deer Report from 2007-2007. Killed is number deer killed in that season. Total Cost is what Iowa City published as their total costs for the season. W. Buff is what they paid to White Buffalo and WB Exp Is another expense item they listed from 99-02 so I added that and is represented in Tot WB. Proc/deer is what they paid Ruzikas to process each deer, including gutting so T proc is the cost of processing all the deer for that year. F+H is the Tot WB+ T Proc which should be equal to Total Cost, but it is off by some. Don’t know where the discrepencies are, but it doesn’t add up. I’d think F+H should be the same as Total Cost. So Cost/deer is the number of deer killed times the cost/deer. Then the bottom row is totals for the columns. So Cost/deer has averaged $355.62 over the 7 years they have been shooting deer in Iowa City. It should also be noted that there aren’t any entries in 02-03 as Iowa City didn’t kill any deer that year.





Year Killed Total cost W. Buff WB Exp. Tot WB Proc/deer T Proc. F+H Cost/deer
99-00 360 72,000 69,300 2,500 71800 45 16200 88000 244.44
00-01 340 109,400 95,400 13,000 108400 50 17000 125400 368.82
01-02 250 100,000 75,000 10,000 85000 55 13750 98750 395.00
02-03 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
03-04 200 94,000 75,000 75000 65 13000 88000 440.00
04-05 154 60,000 45,400 45400 65 10010 55,410 359.81
05-06 150 61,300 48,700 48700 75 11250 59950 399.67
06-07 199 72,000 57,400 57400 75 14925 72325 363.44
Sum/Totals 1653 568700 466200 25500 491700 53.75 96135 587835 355.62

OK, so the copy and paste of the spreadsheet didn't work so well. Suffice it to say Iowa City spends a lot of money to kill deer. If any body is interested PM me and I'mm email you the spreadsheet.

The 'Bonker
 
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Cost/deer has averaged $355.62 over the 7 years they have been shooting deer in Iowa City. </div></div>

Looks like you guys in IC get your tax dollars spent well. /forum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
 
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: River Bttm Boy</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Cost/deer has averaged $355.62 over the 7 years they have been shooting deer in Iowa City. </div></div>

Looks like you guys in IC get your tax dollars spent well. /forum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif </div></div>

Yeah, they claim they can't add a fire station on the east side since it would cost too much. /forum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/crazy.gif Then the city gave $100K to save the local non-profit theater. Don't get me started! /forum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/mad.gif Oops, too late....
 
I think I read a week or two ago that the Iowa City tax rate is about $850 or so per 100,000 assesed value. I'm not that up on taxes other than I pay mine, but I think there are other levies on property as well. Iowa City is a very expensive place to live.

The 'Bonker
 
I don't know why Iowa City doesn't change over to what Coralville is doing. I hunt in Coralville. We pay to shoot the deer for them and we kill more than what the sharp shooters do. The sharp shooters shoot anything also. We are concentrated on antlerless with the exception of buck tag awards (20).
They would get more deer harvested in Coralville if they turned into what Cedar Rapids is doing. Shoot 5 antlerless deer this year, shoot 1 antlerless next and have a buck tag. The way it's done now once the first ten tags are gone the harvesting slows down. Not everyone can take a few days off when it first starts to get their 5 tags filled.
It will be interesting to see how long Iowa City can go with the tax money they have lost with the floods and poor economy.
 
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Pat Cady</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I don't know why Iowa City doesn't change over to what Coralville is doing. </div></div>

Because it is a such a bleeding heart PETAesque liberal town!


The IC council did decide last week that they will move forward with the east side fire station. To fund it, they are going to raise taxes, their usual knee jerk reaction to all their financial challenges. /forum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/crazy.gif
 
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