11. City contract costs increased just 1 . 2 percent. 12. Usually state police contracts cost about $ 50, 000 a year, said Town Manager Peter Cole. 13. Boeing would be responsible for this amount, which exceeds the contract cost cap of $ 4.9 billion. 14. Without the strike and commodities contract costs , earnings would have been much closer to expectations, analysts said. 15. Many economists have since done empirical and theoretical work on how organizational governance can lower contract costs . 16. City contract costs increased just 1.2 percent. 17. The process to terminate Freshwater's contract cost the School Board a total $ 902, 765 over nearly three years. 18. However, a contrary argument could be made suggesting that the elimination-- or near elimination-- of kickbacks should actually lower contract costs . 19. It was built as a replacement of a former " Berry Bridge " in 1899 at contract cost of $ 4580. 20. But the contracts cost Aquila more than $ 100 million a year in a market that has a surplus of electricity.