2024 NRPA Agency Performance Review | 25 offerings, but also to continue growing and improving to better serve their communities. The typical agency designates 88 percent of its capital budget to improvements, 7 percent to acquisition and the remaining 5 percent to other endeavors. Capital expenditures designated to improvements typically fall under renovations and/or new development. Two-thirds of the improvement expenditures are designated to renovation (67 percent) while a third is new development (33 percent). Further, the average percentage of improvement dollars split between buildings and parks is 30 percent (buildings) and 70 percent (parks). Jurisdiction population size influences the value of deferred maintenance projects per agency. The typical agency has nearly $700,000 in deferred maintenance projects. This overall figure drops for smaller agencies serving fewer than 20,000 people and increases to a median more than $17 million for agencies in jurisdictions of more than 250,000 people. Deferred maintenance balances rise at agencies that: • Serve larger populations • Have a higher operating budget • Have more full-time equivalent employees • Maintain more acres of parkland • Have more parks FIGURE 25: IMPROVEMENT DOLLARS SPLIT BETWEEN RENOVATION AND NEW DEVELOPMENT (AVERAGE PERCENTAGE DISTRIBUTION OF IMPROVEMENT DOLLARS) Renovation New development 67% 33% FIGURE 26: IMPROVEMENT DOLLARS SPLIT BETWEEN BUILDINGS AND PARKS (AVERAGE PERCENTAGE OF IMPROVEMENT DOLLARS) Parks Buildings 70% 30% $20,000,000 $18,000,000 $16,000,000 $14,000,000 $12,000,000 $10,000,000 $8,000,000 $6,000,000 $4,000,000 $2,000,000 $0 VALUE OF DEFERRED MAINTENANCE PROJECTS PER AGENCY FIGURE 27: VALUE OF DEFERRED MAINTENANCE PROJECTS PER AGENCY (BY JURISDICTION POPULATION) All Agencies Less Than 20,000 20,000 to 49,999 50,000 to 99,999 100,000 to 250,000 More Than 250,000 Median $698,000 $80,000 $500,000 $813,561 $3,688,462 $17,337,000 Lower Quartile $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 Upper Quartile $10,000,000 $1,000,000 $5,000,000 $8,448,908 $14,301,710 $70,414,250 All Agencies Less Than 20,000 20,000 to 49,999 50,000 to 99,999 100,000 to 250,000 More Than 250,000
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