The City of Vancouver, never an organization known to rush information out to the public that pays its bills, has finally gotten around to releasing an updated cost for the Occupy Vancouver camp-out.

Drum roll please, as we cue the big telethon-like scoreboard:

$981,102

That apparently includes costs incurred by the Vancouver police department ($590,000), Engineering department ($345,878), Office of emergency management ($28,494), and Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services ($16,730), as outlined by the Vancouver Sun. The report goes on:

The preliminary data released Wednesday did not include “the extensive time spent by many exempt managers from across all departments and boards as well as members of our corporate-management team,” the memo noted.

Well, those senior managers are really cheap labour, so no need to count them, right?

So a million tax dollars went out the door in a City already grappling with a $52 million budget deficit next year.

Amazing. And this probably isn’t the end of it. It’s unclear if all clean-up costs are included to get the Art Gallery back to good condition. There doesn’t seem to be any legal costs in this memo—did the City lawyers work for free, spending days in court obtaining that injunction? And then there is future potential litigation—do the businesses who were hurt by Occupy Vancouver have a case against the City after their glacially slow response to the camp-out? They might.

A million tax dollars (a tab which will likely grow by at least 25% once legal and manager wages are included) for a camp-out that accomplished nothing, all propped up by the leadership of several public sector unions. All while the Blac Bloc usurped any semblance of a purpose for Occupy. Merry Christmas, Vancouver City taxpayers.