Comparison Program

The Comparison Program enables registered government authorities to upload information for organisational, regional and national comparison.The Comparison Program provides a range of tools and services including:

• Online forums to aid regional data collection and program review
• Online input sheets and definitions
• Immediate posting of non-financial data
• Auditing of financial data (prior to posting)
• Embedded calculations for creation of performance indicators e.g.
  • % asset value to replacement value
• Data condfidentiality:
  
  • Organisations are able to see their own data and compare it to average, median, highest and lowest results
• Access to online tables and reports
• Data filtering of comparative variables
  e.g. region, geophysical, degree of urbanisation

The information is categorised under the following headings:

• Public Open Space
• Planning - e.g. % Natural Areas with an Active Biodiversity Plan
• Land - e.g. Ha Irrigated Sportfield
• Trees - e.g. # Recently Planted (<2 yrs) Street Trees
• Facilities - e.g. # Regional Skate Parks
• Water Usage - e.g. Kilolitres per annum applied to Level 1 - Town Water Irrigated Sportsfields
• Maintenance Frequencies - e.g. Cuts per annum for Level 1 Passive Park Mowing
• Inspection Frequencies - e.g. Annual frequency of structural inspection of Regional Playgrounds
• Community
• Population - e.g. # Residents in Planning Areas
• Park Usage - e.g. # Park Users - parks with counters
• Sports Participation - e.g. # Registered Seniors in planning area - Soccer
• Public Risk - e.g. # Public Liability Claims - Street Tree - trip, roots
• Service Requests - e.g. # Service Requests Street Trees
• Human Resources
• Organisational Hierarchy - e.g. Annual Salary - Level 1 Parks Manager
• Workload - e.g. # Annual Hours Natural Area Restoration
• Contractor/Employee Ratio- e.g. % Outsourced Sportsfield Mowing (area)
• Finance
• Income - e.g. Sport Area Hire, Tenancy, Leasing Income
• Expenditure - e.g. Annual Natural Area Recurrent
• Asset Value - e.g. Picnic Seats & Tables Current Value