The cost to the commission was $900, plus staff time.

Perhaps they don't care about spending staff time (paid for by the public) to screen it.

No more than 2,000 hours per week of staff time are supervised by a single health professional.

The process could take several weeks and often required a great deal of staff time.

The result is an extraordinary savings in staff time and has become a model for other intake systems.

"If you add up the cost of the original study and the staff time, I'm sure it's got to be in the $200,000 range."

But I was looking at doing more staff time.

Stock control systems save a lot of staff time.

These cost most because they take up staff time without generating revenue.

"When I first got here three and a half years ago, water company business probably took up 10 percent of our staff time," he said.