Incremental Operating Costs means the incremental expenses incurred by the Recipient’s implementing agencies on account of Project implementation, management, and monitoring, including office space rental, utilities, and supplies, bank charges, communications, advertising, vehicle operation, maintenance, and insurance, building and equipment maintenance costs, travel and supervision costs, and salaries of supporting staff, but excluding salaries of officials of the Recipient’s civil service.
Operating Costs means the reasonable incremental expenses incurred by the Recipient on account of Project implementation, including costs related to audits, office equipment and supplies, vehicle operation and maintenance, shipping costs, office rentals, communication and insurance costs, office administration costs, bank charges, utilities, transport costs, travel, per diem and supervision costs, and salaries of contracted employees, but excluding salaries of officials of the Recipient’s civil service.
Operating Expenses herein shall include, but not be limited to, all payments by Landlord for maintenance, operation, repair, replacement and care of all heating, lighting, fire protection and plumbing fixtures in or serving the Parking Areas and other common areas of the Building and of all equipment, systems, exterior glass, landscaped areas, signs, Building exteriors (non-structural) and parking lots (including seal coating); all payments by Landlord for electricity, water, sewer and other utilities not separately metered or sub metered and specially billed to and payable by an individual tenant, snow removal, refuse removal, insurance premiums and deductibles, commercially reasonable management fees, wages and fringe benefits or personnel employed for the aforesaid work and proportionate costs of equipment purchased and used for such purposes; and the amortization of capital expenditures or investments that are made to reduce operating costs, or that are necessary due to governmental requirements first enacted after the date of this Lease, all as determined on a commercially reasonable basis by Landlord. The term “Operating Expenses” shall not be deemed to include any of the following: (i) leasing costs and commissions, costs of tenant disputes, leasehold improvements and other costs of preparing space for tenants, other tenant incentives, and expenses incurred in negotiating or enforcing leases; (ii) interest, principal or any other payments made to the mortgagee under any mortgage or rental or any other payments made to the ground lessor under any ground lease, (iii) the cost of any items of a capital nature, except as expressly provided above, (iv) charges charged to Tenant under any other sections of this Lease, paid by other tenants, or covered by insurance or condemnation proceeds; (v) costs and expenses attributable to any personnel except to the extent the time and energies of such personnel are devoted exclusively to the Building; (vi) costs related to the ownership or operation of the entity that is the Landlord, (vii) items not typically included as operating and maintenance costs in similar projects in the region; (viii) advertising and promotional expenses; and (ix) insurance costs to the extent that any insurance coverage, deductibles and/or premiums are not consistent with standard, prudent industry practice for similar projects in the region. Any capital expenditures permitted to be included in Operating Expenses shall be amortized over the useful life of the improvement at an annual interest rate of eight percent (8%) and only the annual portion thereof that occurs during the Term shall be included in Operating Expenses.
Service Costs has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 3.01.
Project Costs means all allowable costs, as set forth in the applicable Federal cost principles, incurred by a recipient and the value of the contribu- tions made by third parties in accom- plishing the objectives of the award during the project period.
Operation and Maintenance Expenses or ‘O&M expenses' means the expenditure incurred on operation and maintenance of the project, or part thereof, and includes the expenditure on manpower, repairs, spares, consumables, insurance and overheads;
Operation and Maintenance Costs means the costs of: