Nuggets. Chapter 1. Parks.
I have a file full of budget stuff. Some of it is interesting and pertinent in some way to this year’s budget talks, but maybe the info didn’t fit into a story. Or will later. Meantime, I’m just going to post some of those tidbits up here periodically.
This one’s a neat chart that’s part of the Parks Department Budget. It’s called “workload indicators.” It’s quite general, and parks people say the numbers are estimates. Still, they’re pretty interesting.
Here’s a couple:
Number of lights maintained: 362
No. of athletic fields maintained: 27
No. of playgrounds maintained: 33
No. of developed park acres per employee: 24
No. of irrigation systems maintained: 100 (Wow!)
No. of trees pruned: 478
No. of trailheads maintained: 45
Miles of conservation trail maintained: 45
Acres of turf maintained: 530
That’s not all, and that’s what’s proposed for this current fiscal year, 2011. Most of the numbers are pretty similar if not identical to the actual numbers in 2010. See the entire list here, second-to-last page.
– Keila Szpaller
