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44 MOTOR VEmCLE DEPUTY REGISTRARSSome private deputies have income sources other than their salary. For example,some private deputy registrars own the building that contains the deputy registrarbusiness and include the rent paid by the deputy registrar corporation to the owneras a business expense. Similarly, some private deputy registrars lease a car to thecorporation and include the lease amount as an expense. We did not include anyincome (or losses) that deputies may make from renting space or leasing cars tothe deputy registrar corporation.To interpret deputy registrar incomes, it is important to consider the number ofowners who work for the deputy and whether they work full time. In the typicalprivate deputy registrar, there is one owner who works full time. Some privatedeputies are owned by two people who both work for the deputy, either full timeor part time. In other cases, there is one owner who works part time and relies onstaff to operate the business. The average number of full-time owners per deputyis about 1.0 for each size category in our sample.EXPENSES AND REVENUES OF PUBLICDEPUTY REGISTRARSMinnesota has 90 public deputy registrars, including four operated by HennepinCounty (downtown Minneapolis, Southdale, Ridgedale, and Brookdale), four operatedby Anoka County (Columbia Heights, Anoka, Blaine, and St. Francis), andthree operated by Washington County (Stillwater, Woodbury, and Forest Lake). In·our financial analysis, we treated the deputies operated by Hennepin, Anoka, andWashington counties as a separate multiple-office category.Expenses of Public Deputy RegistrarsTable 3.1 and Figure 3.1 show how the cost per transaction varies with size amongpublic deputy registrars. We found:• In 1992, the cost per transaction varied greatly among public deputies,ranging from S2.10 to $6.01.• Larger deputy registrars tended to have lower costs per transactionthan smaller deputy registrars, but there is considerable variationwithin size categories.Among single-office deputy registrars, large deputies had an average cost of $2.76per transaction, compared with $2.94 for medium-l~e deputies, $3.53 for medium-smalldeputies, and $4.15 for small deputies. 5Among deputies that process fewer than 24,000 transactions per year, 38 percent(8 out of 21 that we examined) had an average cost exceeding $4 per transaction.The only other deputies in our sample with a cost of more than $4 per transaction5 These differences are statistically significant at the a. = .01 level.
DEPUTY REGISTRAR FINANCES 45Table 3.1: Cost Per Transaction for Public Deputy Registrars, 1992Salary andAverage Number Number Transactions Benefits perAnnual of in Cost per per Full lime Full limeCategory Transactions De~uties Sam~le Transaction Em~lo~ee Em~lo~eeMultiple-Office DeputiesHennepin 115,000 per deputy 4 4 $4.84 8,500 $31,000Anoka 82,000 per deputy 4 4 3.19 11,100 27,300Washington 45,000 per deputy 3 2 3.42 10,600 25,500Single-Office DeputiesLarge more than 60,000 9 9 2.76 12,200 25,800Medium-Large 24,000-60,000 26 12 2.94 10,800 24,100Medium-Small 12,000-24,000 24 11 3.53 8,800 22,600Small less than 12,000 20 10 4.15 6,900 22,200Source: Office of the Legislative Auditor.Figure 3.1: Cost per Transaction by Size 6f PublicDeputy, 1992Dollars5~--------------------------------------~4321oSource: Office of the Legislative Auditor.Med Small Med LargeDeputy Sizewere Goodhue County and the four deputies operated by Hennepin County, whichspent about $4.84 per transaction at its four service centers. Goodhue Countyclosed its deputy registrar office in Red Wing at the end of October 1992 becauseit was losing money and many customers complained about the service. Subsequently,the county auditor appointed a private individual as deputy registrar.Hennepin County is the most notable exception to the generalization that largerdeputies tend to have lower costs. It operates 4 of the 15 largest deputy registrars
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