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Using Data to Drive Optimal Decision Making You have many questions about how to best lead your parks and recreation agency. The questions may be about budget size, optimal staffing or revenues generated from agency activities. Perhaps you are looking towards the future and seeking opportunities where your agency can better serve its community while also outperforming its peers elsewhere in the U.S. In your hands is one resource that can assist you with answering these many questions. The customized Parks and Recreation Agency Performance Report shows you how your community’s parks and recreation services compare to those of its peers throughout the U.S. The data in this report comes from what your agency and other agencies entered in NRPA’s Park Metrics website and compares specific measures of parks and recreation efficiency and effectiveness against thousands of other parks and recreation agencies across the country. Use this report to make informed decisions about your parks and recreation agency. Capitalize on your strengths and address your weaknesses – and increase the positive impact of your parks and recreation offerings on those in the community you serve. Of course, data itself does not provide complete answers to your many questions. But combined with the collective knowledge of yourself, your team, your external partners and other resources, the insights contained within this report are an important step to lead your agency into the future. About this Report Earlier this year, your agency submitted operational information into the National Recreation and Park Association’s (NRPA) Park Metrics website by completing your Agency Performance Survey. Thanks to the participation of park and recreation agencies throughout the U.S., NRPA is providing the field with key data on the management and operation of park and recreation agencies. The Agency Performance Review is a customized look at your agency in comparison to all agencies that responded to the survey and a subset of agencies that serve a similar population density (the online NRPA Park Metrics system allows you to create much more detailed data aggregations to compare your agency to agencies that meet specific criteria of your choice). The results contained in this report offer broad “yardsticks” on your agency’s management and operations, allowing you to gauge your agency’s strengths, weaknesses and improvement opportunities. The aggregated data contained in this report was derived from 2019 – 2021 data in the NRPA Park Metrics database as of February 2022. As the NRPA Park Metrics system is available 24/7/365, the data can and will change throughout the year. NRPA Park Metrics allows you to run reports on-demand, based on real- time data, so the reports you create will always be based on the most current data available. To run additional reports, simply login to your account and go to the “Reports” tab to use Agency Performance Reports or Agency Performance Dashboards to drill-down into the full data set to compare your agency alongside agencies that meet your search criteria in areas such as Jurisdiction Population, Budget Size, State, Population Density, etc. Introduction 41 of 63