HomeMy WebLinkAbout4c - Performance MeasuresCITY OF NEWPORT BEACH
CITY COUNCIL STAFF REPORT
Agenda Item No. 4c
January 9, 2010
TO: HONORABLE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
FROM: City Manager's Office
Sharon Wood, Assistant City Manager
949 -644 -3222, swood @newportbeachca.gov
SUBJECT: First Quarterly Report on Performance Measures
1. Review report and provide feedback to staff on report format, usefulness of performance
measures, and performance data.
2. Provide direction to staff on any changes to performance measures.
3. Consider performance measure data in setting priorities for 2010, and in strategic and
budget planning for Fiscal Year 2010 -11.
Background:
The City Council approved the final report from ICMA on performance measures and
benchmarks on September 8, 2009. Staff began collecting data for the majority of the
measures (except those requiring internal or external survey data) at the start of Fiscal Year
2009 -10, and the City Manager and I provided a status report to the City Council on November
24, 2009. In that report, we expressed our intent to provide the first quarterly report on
performance measures at this priority setting session.
As a reminder, we differentiate performance measures from benchmarks this way:
A performance measurement is a way to measure ourselves internally, including by
comparing our actions against the same action over consecutive quarters or years, or our
costs to provide a service against our cost in a previous period.
Benchmarks are ways to measure ourselves externally against other jurisdictions that
provide similar services.
How Are We Doing?
Attached is the performance measurement report for the first quarter of 2009 -10. It includes all
of the performance measures approved by the Council in September, whether or not data is
available yet. As we noted in November, data is available for the majority of measures, with the
First Quarterly Report on Performance Measures
January 9, 2010
Page 2
notable exception of measures requiring a survey. For some measures that are reported
annually rather than quarterly, data is not yet available and will be reported later in the year. For
annual expenditure measures, we have provided information in the first quarter, based on the
2009 -10 adopted budget.
With only one quarter of data, it is not possible to see trends in performance yet. Nonetheless,
the following positive performance highlights are shown in the report:
• All reserve balances and annual contributions to replacement plans and long -term
liabilities met or exceeded Council policy.
The City's IT network and major subsystems were available for use 99.9% of the time.
100% of litigation matters were resolved in favor of the City or within Council approved
settlement range.
• Beach water quality warnings were posted for .73 beach mile day.
• 32% of development plans were approved over the counter.
• All development services departments met the first plan review goal of 30 days 95% of
the time.
• 95% of building inspections were provided on the day requested.
• 93% of non life safety fire hazard complaints were responded to within 2 business days.
• 100% of streets were swept on schedule.
• 75% of Employee Performance Evaluations were completed on time.
• Average Library Secret Shopper ratings were 91.38°% out of a possible 100 %.
• 79% of all CIP projects were completed within two months of the approved baseline
completion date. (Target: 85 %)
• After school program recovery rate was 35 %. (Target: 30 %)
• 99% of senior transportation clients were taken to their destinations within 5 minutes of
scheduled time.
• 85°% of streetlights were repaired within 7 days of notice.
In addition, the report shows some areas that bear watching our performance over time, to see
if there are ways we can improve.
The percent of development plans approved after first review ranged from 6°% to 39° %,
depending on department.
The average number of review cycles for development plans ranged from 2 to 4,
depending on type of project.
64% of CIP projects were completed within the original construction contract cost plus
10 %. (Target: 95° %)
Performance Measure Issues:
We have always known that the ease, clarity and usefulness of the performance measures
would become more (or less) clear as we started to collect and use data on the measures.
Staff's work to prepare the first quarterly report has started to show some issues, and we may
make changes to our reporting format, or return to the Council with recommendations to
change, replace or eliminate some measures. Some examples of issues are listed below:
First Quarterly Report on Performance Measures
January 9, 2010
Page 3
• Responsiveness by Office of the City Attorney to contract and ordinance review are not
quantitative measures, and can only be measured subjectively through surveys.
• Measures such as annual revenue from fees /charges (City Clerk) and application fees
(Development Services) are not meaningful and/or difficult to compare with other cities
to make them meaningful.
• Percent of total services transacted on line (City Manager — Public Information) is too
broad because so many departments offer online transactions.
• Frequency of postings /edits to website (City Manager — Public Information) is not well
defined and may not be useful.
• Monitor corridor travel times (travel time /volume) for percent change (Public Works —
Traffic and Transportation Management) needs further definition regarding over what
period of time change is to be measured.
During the Goal Setting Workshop's discussion of performance measurement and
benchmarking, Dave and I encourage the Council to ask questions of the department heads
about the measures and the usefulness of the measures as management tools.
Comments as to the best way to communicate this information with stakeholder groups and with
the general public are appreciated as well.
This report does not delve much into benchmarking. Recall that our ICMA consultants
proposed several areas where the City's staff should search for or set up benchmarking groups
with other municipalities, in part because the data for the proposed benchmarks was not widely
gathered, or not gathered in the same format. The City staff has not spent much time or
resources on this group effort to date, in large part because of the time demands of our
restructuring efforts.
Submitted by:
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Sharon Wood
Assistant City Manager
Attachment: Performance Measurement Report, 1" Quarter 2009 -2010
1� Qtr
2 "d Qtr
3rd Qtr
4th Qtr
Comments
Jul -Sep
Oct -Dec
Jan -Mar
Apr -June
Administrative Services
Budgeting
Key Reserve balances meet or exceed target Council
Yes
reserve levels:
Yes
• General Fund Contingency Reserve .
Yes
• Equipment Replacement Fund
Yes
• Facility Replacement Plan
Yes
• General Liability Reserve Fund
• Workers' Compensation Fund
Yes
Compensated Absences
Annual Contributions toward replacement plans and
Yes
long -term liabilities meet or exceed the Council policy
Yes
requirement for each program:
Yes
• Equipment Replacement Fund
Yes
• Facility Replacement Plan
• General Liability Reserve Fund
Yes
• Workers' Compensation Fund
Yes
• Compensated Absences
Yes
• Retiree Insurance Liabilities
• Employee Pension Liabilities
• Retiree Insurance Liabilities
The City has received the GFOA Award for CAFR
Award announcement to be made in May
Excellence
2010
Administrative Services
Information and Technology Services
Percentage of time the City's network and major
99,9%
subsystems such as email, voicemail, Pentamation
Financial package, etc. are available for use
Cost of central network support per hour the network is
This will be in an annual report, but IT is
available (for each major sub - system)
still working on a tracking mechanism
Cost of network support per workstation
IT Operations and Maintenance (O &M) expenditures
as percentage of jurisdiction O &M
15` Qtr
2nd Qtr
3rd Qtr
4th Qtr
Comments
Jul -Sep
Oct -Dec
Jan -Mar
Apr -June
%timely resolution of IT issues:
• Priority 1 — A problem impacting a significant
None
group of users or any mission critical IT service
affecting a single user or group of users (30
minutes)
• Priority 2 — Non - critical, but significant issue, or
None
an issue that could escalate if not addressed
quickly (60 minutes)
• Priority 3 — Routine support requests that
89%
impact a single user or noncritical software or
hardware error 8 hours
Administrative Services
Purchase Requisition /Ordering
Percent of supplier bids awarded without delay due to
100%
re -bid or protest
Dollars saved on purchase orders compared to total
$47,685
cost submitted on requisitions
Purchasing administrative cost as percentage of total
Information will be provided at end of fiscal
purchase
year
Average number of calendar days from receipt of
requisition to Purchase Order Issuance for bid amounts
9.89
of $10,000 to $25,000
City Attorney
Contract Approval
Cost of representation by in -house OCA compared with
$17.46/
7 cities in comparison group of 12 have
benchmark cities and outside firms
capita
higher costs for in -house OCA
Responsiveness by OCA to form contract review and
3.3
July survey of management team; 3 =
approval as to form
Meets Expectations; 4 = Exceeds
Expectations
Responsiveness by OCA to complex contract and
Ordinance review and approval as to form
City Attorney
Litigation Matters
% of Cases resolved in favor of the City and /or within
100%
Council-Approved settlement range
% of Code Enforcement cases referred to OCA which
Reported to City Council in closed session
result in substantial compliance
2� Qtr
2'' Qtr
3rd Qtr
4th Qtr
Comments
Jul -Sep
Oct -Dec
Jan -Mar
Apr -June
Cost per case litigated
City Clerk
Records Management
Overall expenditures to manage records
Annual revenue from fees /charges
$50.00
Internal Customers: % of permanent documents
(ordinances, resolutions, minutes, agenda packets,
100%
etc.) entered into Alchemy record system within six
business days
All Customers: Provide requested paper or electronic
documents within time targets (TBD based on type,
100%
accessibility and complexity of request).
City Manager
Community Code Compliance
Rates of complaint resolution /compliance obtained
through:
• Phone call, meeting, letter
• Notice of Violation (NOV)
100%
No new code enforcement cases referred
• Administrative Citation
to the City Attorney's Office
Code Compliance expenditures per capita
$5.35
Average days from complaint to first non- inspection
response
35
City Manager
Water QualitylEnvironmental Protection
# of Beach Mile Days when beach water quality
warnings are posted during the summer (AB411)
33
period
Average Star Rating (5 Star maximum) of City Beaches
Data for this measure is reported annually
by the Natural Resources Defense Council Annual
in arrears
Beach Report (Newport Beach at Balboa Pier and
Newport Beach at Newport Pier
Costs for compliance with NPDES permit regulations
$5.8M
As reported in NPDES Annual Report for FY
1009 -10
City Manager
Public Information /Communication
Percentage of customers that were able to find the
Survey tool available through website in
information desired on the City Web site
January 2010
1$` Qtr
2nd Qtr
3rd Qtr
4th Qtr
Comments
Jul -Sep
Oct -Dec
Jan -Mar
Apr -June
City web site usage - % of total services transacted on
Measure is too broad; needs to be refined
liner
for meaningful data collection
Frequency of postings/edits to City Web site
Data will be available for 2 "d quarter
Development Services
Plan Check
• of projects approved over the counter
32%
Does not include permits issued over the
counter without plans
• of projects approved after first review, after being
taken in for review (by dept)
6.3%
• Building
27.8%
• EMP
39%
• Fire.
26.4%
• Planning
• Public Works
24 3°/
% of corrections required due to:
• Incomplete submittal
12.6%
• Staff error
0
• Lack of code compliance
87%
• Project changes
.43%
Average number of review cycles, by project type:
• Residential w/ valuation < $200,000
2
• Residential w/ valuation > $200,000
4
• New Commercial
4
• Commercial addition /alternationfTl
3
Application fees
Budget expenditures per $1,000 valuation of permits
$17.18
issued
Percentage of first plan reviews completed in 30 days,
by department:
• Building
98%
• EMP
95%
• Fire
974
• Planning
95%
• Public Works
95%
5
Sn Qtr
2nd Qtr
3rd Qtr
4th Qtr
Comments
Jul -Sep
Oct -Dec
Jan -Mar
Apr -June
Number of days with City/applicant, by project type:
Average number of days are cumulative,
• Residential w/ valuation < $200,000
23/32
not consecutive
• Residential w/ valuation > $200,000
109/117
• New Commercial
92/180
• Commercial addition /alternation/TI
50/37
Development Services
Building Inspections
Application fees
Budgeted expenditures per $1,000 valuation permits
$9.50
issued
• of inspections provided on the day requested
95%
• of construction related complaints investigated on
95%
the next business day after the complaint is received
Fire
Fire and Life Safety Hazard Complaint Resolution
Cost per complaint investigated.
$139
% of non -life safety complaints responded to within 2
93%
business days.
• of complaints resolved within 10 business days.
53%
• of complaints resolved within 10 -20 business days
60%
• of complaints unresolved
0
Fire
Emergency Response
Percentage of'structure fires confined to room /structure
8090
of origin
Fire & EMS operating expenditures per 1000
$318,399
Excludes all lifeguard costs
population
Fire & EMS Staffing — FTE's per 1000 population
1.58
Percentage of emergency calls in which the first unit
65%
arrives within 5 minutes of call entry b Fire Cis atch
I
—
% of structural fire calls in which the first Truck
87.59'0
—
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Company arrives within 8 minutes of call entry by Fire
Dispatch
5
M
V Qtr
2nd Qtr
3rd Qtr
4th Qtr
Comments
Jul -Sep
Oct -Dec
Jan -Mar
Apr -June
General Services
Beach and Pier Maintenance
# of service requests by type & area:
• Type:
• Infrastructure (restrooms, fire rings)
0
• Appearance (natural debris on sand,
16
foreign debris on sand)
• Area:
o Beach Areas 1 -6
13
o Little Corona
0
o Balboa Island
0
o Bayside /Misc.
1
Total annual maintenance cost:
• per beach -mile
N/A
• per acre
$1,544
Staff - hours /month
1,926
General Services
Park Maintenance
# of service requests by type & facility:
• Type:
• Infrastructure (restrooms, irrigation)
11
• Appearance (natural debris in
$
landscaping, foreign debris in
landscaping, natural debris on turf,
foreign debris on turf, foreign debris in
native /sensitive areas
• Maintenance cost/contract acre
$3,965
• Maintenance costlin -house acre
$4,705
• Maintenance cost/developed acre
$4,049,640
• Maintenance cost/undeveloped acre
$1,455,339
General Services
Refuse Collection
Recyclables as % of all tons of residential refuse
Delayed reporting. CIWMB changed the
collected
reporting methodology beginning with the
2007 report. Recommend changing the
measure to "In compliance with state -
mandated recycling rate - yes /no."
M
V Qtr
2nd Qtr
3rd Qtr
4th Qtr
Comments
Jul -Sep
Oct -Dec
Jan -Mar
Apr -June
Number of non - routine issues /requests for service
104
Operating and maintenance expenditures for refuse
$55.70
collection per refuse collection account
Comparison of costs /expenditures to annual HF &F
Study not yet available
study, selected cities in region
% of non - routine issues /requests for service resolved
65%
by the next business day (city operated routes only)
General Services
Street Sweeping
Percent of streets swept on schedule
100%
Operating and maintenance expenditures per linear
$16.82
mile swept
Time between sweepings
1 week
Human Resources
Employee Relations
Average Length of Employment
11.7 yrs
% of Grievances resolved before passing from
100%
management control
• of timely responses to grievances filed
100%
• of Employee Performance Evaluations completed on
75%
time
Human Resources
Employment Services
Citywide Turnover Rate
1.4%
Citywide Vacancy Rate
4.8%
% of Employees passing probation
76%
Cost of central HR per City FTE
$1,103
Cost per Hire for:
Executive costs include City Manager
• Executive Recruitments
$16,030
recruitment
• Police/Fire
$3,735
• Non -Police /Fire
$376
% of time Hiring Timeline Goals are met:
77.8%
• Outside Recruitments
• Internal Promotions
Average days to hire:
Excludes executive recruitments conducted
• Outside Recruitments
49
by consultant
• Internal Promotions
21
1" Qtr
2 "d Qtr
3rd Qtr
4th Qtr
Comments
Jul -Sep
Oct -Dec
Jan -Mar
Apr -June
Library
Customer Service
Number of reference transactions per FTE
791
High ratings from Secret Shoppers indicating that
91.38%
Average of all rating categories; highest
accurate answers were received quickly
possible rating is 100%
Costs per checkout item in relation to the operating
3.97
CDM Branch was closed for 3 weeks in July
budget for public services
Materials expenditures per capita
$7.42
Cost per Reference question in relation to the
$7.83
reference staffing costs
Amount of time it takes for a new item to go from initial
receipt to the shelf
Police
Crime Prevention
Percentage of residents who participate in some form
.52%
of neighborhood watch as sponsored by the Police
Department
Crime prevention expenditures per 1,000 population
$107.37
Police
Emergency Response
Average response time to top priority calls (from receipt
2.3 min.
of call to arrival on scene
% of emergency calls (present and imminent threat to
life or property) answered by dispatchers within 5
89%
seconds
% of emergency calls (police response with lights and
94%
sirens ) responded to by field officers within 5 minutes
Police
Investigations
FBI UCR Part I Crime rates
318.44
% of reported UCR Part I crimes (including Police-
25%
initiated cases ) that received criminal investigations
% of investigated UCR Part I crimes cleared (including
43%
crimes cleared by Patrol Officers
Percentage of UCR part I crimes cleared
30%
Expenditures per UCR Part I crime cleared
$5,925.96
Percentage of crimes investigated within time targets
96%
30 days)
V Qtr
2nd Qtr
3rd Qtr
4th Qtr
Comments
Jul -Sep
Oct -Dec
Jan -Mar
Apr -June
Public Works
Capital Improvement Plan Delivery
Maintain a citywide minimum average Pavement
To be reported annually in 4th Quarter
Condition Index of 80 and minimum individual street
ratings of 60
Slurry Seal all local and residential streets as well as
To be reported annually in 4th Quarter
city parking lots at a minimum of every 8 years
Deliver 95 percent of CIP projects (by category)
scheduled for completion within a Fiscal Year within
the original construction contract cost plus 1 O
50%
100%
• Facilities
50%
• Parks, Harbors, Beaches
• Streets and Drainage
609"
• Traffic
100%
• Water
100%
Substantially complete 85% of all CIP projects (by
category) scheduled for completion within a Fiscal Year
within two months of the approved baseline completion
date:
75%
100%
• Facilities
• Parks, Harbors, Beaches
100%
• Streets and Drainage
80%
• Traffic
50%
• Water
100%
Public Works
Traffic and Transportation Management
Monitor corridor travel times (travel time /volume) for
Data collection to begin February 2010
percent change
Pavement Condition Index compared to Orange
Based on OCTA data provided every 2 years
County cities
Respond to and correct non -emergency signal
maintenance requests within 5 days 90% of the time
Recreation
After School Programming
% of total capacity filled with registered participants
N/A
62%
School year and program began 2 "d quarter
Program cost recovery rate
1 35%
Council policy is 30% cost recovery
10
1"` Qtr
2nd Qtr
3rd Qtr
4th Qtr
Comments
Jul -Sep
Oct -Dec
Jan -Mar
Apr -June
Recreation
Senior Transportation
Cost per client trip
$29.18
% of Transportation requests scheduled within one
98%
business day
% of Trips client gets to destination /appointment within
99%
5 minutes of schedule time
Utilities
Drinking Water Supply
Number of leakstbreaks per 100 miles piping (AWWA)
1
Percentage of days in full compliance with regulations
100%
AW WA
Number of unplanned disruptions affecting more than
0
1,000 customers
Operation and Maintenance Cost Ratios:
• O &M cost per account
$106
• O &M cost per MG distributed
$155
Percentage of customer service requests responded to
Data gathering began 11/1/09
within 24 hours
Utilities
Electrical Services
Percentage of Planned vs. Unplanned Streetlight
Data gathering began 11/1/09
Maintenance hours
Operations & Maintenance Cost Ratios: O &M cost per
$81.62
streetlight
Percentage of streetlights repaired within 7 days of
85%
notice
Percentage of service requests responded to within 24
Data gathering began 11/1/09
hours
Utilities
Wastewater Collection
Collection System Integrity — number of collection
system failures each year per 100 miles of collection
0
system piping
Number of sewer overflows per 100 miles collection
1
system piping (AWWA)
Beach mile days of beach closures
Annual
From Orange County Health Care Agency
annual report
10
11
I" Qtr
Jul -Sep
2nd Qtr
Oct -Dec
3rd Qtr
Jan -Mar
4th Qtr
Apr -June
Comments
Operations & Maintenance Cost Ratios:
• O &M cost per account
$22
• O &M cost per mile
$2,000
Percentage of customer service requests responded to
Data gathering began 11/1/09
within 24 hours
11