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Yardstick is a suite of benchmarking tools that delivers need to know information for your business to inform your decision making and improve your service delivery. The information in this report comes from the 2019 Yardstick Parks Benchmarking project, and is compiled from data from the Canada speci c section of the report. The 2020 project is currently underway and results should be ready for reporting by mid 2020. Relocatable washrooms The number of seasonal District of Squamish (BC) 10.76 City of Kelowna (BC) 5.1 and relocatable Town of Tillsonburg (ON) 4.41 Town of Cochrane (AB) 4.18 washrooms provided for Resort Municipality of Whistl… 3.37 both seasonal and year City of Thunder Bay (ON) 2.87 City of Kamloops (BC) 1.66 round use varies City of Port Coquitlam (BC) 1.02 Town of Aurora (ON) 0.95 signi cantly between City of Red Deer (AB) 0.9 Canadian organisations City of Burlington (ON) 0.82 City of Waterloo (ON) 0.73 with the highest rate of City of Coquitlam (BC) 0.65 District of West Vancouver (BC) 0.47 provision being in City of Richmond (BC) 0.37 Squamish. Median City of Surrey (BC) 0.34 City of St Albert (AB) 0.3 expenditure per facility City of Calgary (AB) 0.06 in 2019 was $2,677. City of Lethbridge (AB) 0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 per 10,000 residents Community Gardens City of Red Deer (AB) 239 Median provision of City of Kamloops (BC) 177 City of St Albert (AB) 151 community gardens is City of Lethbridge (AB) 100 around 66 m2 per 1,000 Town of Cochrane (AB) 95 City of Thunder Bay (ON) 93 residents. Most (63%) of City of Victoria (BC) 87 City of Kelowna (BC) 79 community gardens are City of Richmond (BC) 69 managed by community Town of Tillsonburg (ON) 63 City of Edmonton (AB) 60 organisations, with a further City of Coquitlam (BC) 59 27% managed by local City of Burlington (ON) 55 City of Port Coquitlam (BC) 51 residents and 10% managed City of Surrey (BC) 29 City of Calgary (AB) 24 by municipalities. Just over District of West Vancouv… 21 half of organisations have an City of Waterloo (ON) 15 0 40 80 120 160 200 240 adopted policy on m2 per 1,000 residents community gardens.
Town of Tillsonburg District of City of West Lethbridge (ON) Cemeteries Vancouver (AB) 8.76 3.8 Annual interments (BC) 3.98 (casket burials and ash interments) per 1,000 residents ranged from 0.5 to 8.8 with a median City of City of Kamloops City of Port Town of Coquitlam Cochrane of 1.9. (BC) (AB) Waterloo 2.6 (BC) 1.37 In general, the number of 1.88 (ON) ash interments was 3.36 City of Thunder City of higher than casket Bay (ON) Coquitlam City of 2.55 (BC) burials with an average 1.28 of 60% of burials being Kelowna City of Red Deer City of ash interments. (BC) Calgary (AB) (AB) 1.18 3.13 1.91 Snow Removal Level of Service The most frequent 0.00% 27.27% level of service (36%) for removal of snow 36.36% 4.55% from hard surfaces in
0.00% high priority areas is 22.73% 4.55% 48 hours from the 4.55% end of the snow fall event. 24 hours and Hours from end of snow event 8 hours have the next highest incidence at 27% and 23%
8 hours 12 hours 24 hours 36 hours 48 hours respectively.
60 hours 72 hours more than 72 hours
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