Recreation Advisory Board Agenda and Packet 2023 02 27

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closer to APPA level 2 (High-level). Using this benchmark as guideposts, a strategic staffing plan and measurement and monitoring of outcomes can make future staffing adjustments to staffing levels more consistent, defensible, and directly linked to service level and stakeholder needs. Based on our discussions with staff, there are additional maintenance duties performed by Parks employees for the open space areas of the City, but the areas and amount of time associated with this effort is not included in the analysis. NRPA Agency Performance Review Benchmarks This high-level analysis provides an indication of where Parks metrics as compared to other agencies who report data to the NRPA agency performance review database. This analysis does not account for any overlapping community population or shared resources within Parks. Data associated with Open Space has not been included with any of the analysis. Cost of Parks grounds maintenance was calculated using the 2021 budget in select categories of maintenance and operations using the NPRA agency review performance indicators. Table 5 summarizes our analysis of NRPA Park Metrics Review based on the budgeted expenditure data provided by Parks and shows for one of the metrics that, on a per capita basis, the average annual spending on Parks maintenance function fell above NRPA all agency average and the reporting agencies with less than 20,000 residents. NRPA 2022 Population Population Colorado Less than 20,000 to All Agencies reported NRPA Benchmark City of Louisville 20,000 49,999 (median) (median) Residents Per Playground 1415 1986 3111 3750 2809 .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... FTE's per 10,000 residents 11 11.3 11.1 8.9 69 ..................................................................................................................................... Operating Capital Per Capita ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $134.00 --------------------------------------- ......... $117.00 ------------------------------------ ................................... $110.00 ----------------------------------- ----..................................................................... $93.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ $249.00 Acres of parkland per 1,000 residents 17 12.9 10.6 10.4 24.8 ..................................................................................................................................... Residents per park 574 ............... ............... 1233 .......................................................................... 1941 2323 .................................. 1798 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Revenue to Operating Expenditures ----------------------------------------- 46.23% ----------------------------------- 25.00% --------------------------------- 25.00% ---------------------------------------- 24.00% ---------------------------------- 26.90% ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Annual Operating Expenditures ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- $ 2,837,320 $ 1,200,000 ----------------------------------- $ 3,500,000 ---------------------------------------- $ 5,079,256 --------------------------------- Not Available Table 5. NRPA Benchmarks Review Using the NRPA benchmarking data, Parks is in line with their peers on staffing levels and has a higher operating budget per capita. However, the City maintains significantly more acreage of parkland than its peers that submitted to the NRPA database. Utilizing peer data for benchmarking is informative at a high level, but reporting peers could be understaffed, skewing the data. Using the APPA analysis, which includes a level of service, is a standard to compare versus looking at peer reporting. However, there is a large difference with the APPA analysis, showing the Department is significantly understaffed for the levels of service Parks is providing. If data can be provided to the consultant team on the FTE equivalent for contractors and ensure that we have accounted for all seasonal employees, we can provide a better comparison to APPA standards. Other notable items from the NRPA benchmarks, Parks provides more parkland per resident than its peers and has a smaller residents -per -park -and -playground ratio. The included Colorado benchmarks include two entities that reported information to NRPA. However, the size of those entities is not known. City of Louisville Parks Department January 16, 2023 Summary of Findings Page 18