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Cost Analysis Of Tables For Annual Booksale

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Cost Analysis of Tables for Annual Booksale
Summary
The Friends of the Metropolitan Library System can save approximately $4,400/year by owning and storing tables for the booksale instead of renting. If the Friends used the Old Sort Site warehouse, with a small external storage site, the savings could grow to approximately $5,600/year.
Wondering why the Friends did not supply their own tables, I asked several other vol- unteers about the subject while at the 2016 Booksale. The most common reason was a lack of storage facilities, coupled with the costs (manpower and financial) associated with transporting them. In this report I attempt to quantify the ongoing requirements associated with ownership.
Renting approximately 480 tables has a …show more content…

Storage Requirements:
One possible storage site for these tables is in the Friends’ Old Sort Site (1350 NE 3rd St.) When I volunteered at 2016’s Move Out, there was enough room left over to park a truck inside the building. If this space is not used through the rest of the year as New Sort Site overflow, then a space of easily 10 by 32 feet is available, capable of holding up to 360 tables placed on end against the long wall. Even more could be held if they were laid flat and stacked over 8’ high. Limiting the tables to a space 10’ wide, 32’ long, and 13’ high holds 423 tables.
The tables can also be stored in self storage units. Two locations close (about 4 miles) to the Oklahoma Expo Hall were Public Storage at 4105 S May and SecurCare Self Storage at 5110 NW 10th St.
Public Storage had two sizes of interest: 10x10, holding about 110, and 10x20, hold- ing 220 tables. Monthly rent is $68 and $108/month respectively.
SecurCare Self Storage had many more options:
5x15 (80 tables) $52 10x10 (110 tables) $69 10x15 (160 tables) $85 10x20 (220 tables) $87 10x22 (248 tables) $90 20x15 (320 tables) $140 20x20 (440 tables) $170
$.65/table $.63/table $.53/table $.40/table $.37/table $.44/table

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