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Trail Mileage Trail Mileage per 10,000 Residents

OVERLAND PARK, KS 73 OVERLAND PARK, KS 3.69
DES MOINES, IA 81 DES MOINES, IA 3.84

BALTIMORE, MD 82 BALTIMORE, MD 1.44
DALLAS, TX 158 DALLAS, TX 1.22
CINCINNATI, OH 65 CINCINNATI, OH 2.10
KANSAS CITY, MO 144 KANSAS CITY, MO 2.83

0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 0.00 0.50 1.00 1.50 2.00 2.50 3.00 3.50 4.00 4.50
Figure 5.9: Trail mileage among the 6 peer cities Figure 5.10: Trail mileage per 10,000 residents

report examined was the trail system. Kansas staffing
City residents have voiced their desire for walking
and biking trails. The Level of Service Analysis
suggests that this system needs expansion. In In terms of its staffing, Kansas City Parks and
terms of raw mileage, Kansas City, with 143 miles Recreation has the third highest number of
of park trails, comes in a close second to Dallas full-time equivalent staff at 399 FTEs behind
with 158 miles. When normalized by population, Baltimore (424) and Dallas (790) . As mentioned
Kansas City falls to third place with 2.83 miles per earlier, these systems have a significantly higher
10,000 residents behind Des Moines (3.84 miles) number of indoor recreation facilities. Dallas is
and Overland Park (3.69 miles). Both cities are just a vastly larger city and park system. When
able to take advantage of smaller populations normalized by population, Kansas City has the
and geography to achieve greater levels of highest number of staff per 10,000 residents. This
connectivity. If Kansas City added the trail number isn’t surprising when one considers that
mileage recommended by the LOS Analysis (60 KCMO also has the greatest amount of parkland
miles), it would find itself at the top of its peer city per 10,000 residents. One data point this study
group in both of these trail metrics. did not uncover was the breakdown of true full-
time to part-time employees within each of these

Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff FTEs per 10,000 Residents

OVERLAND PARK, KS 83 OVERLAND PARK, KS 4.20

DES MOINES, IA 67 DES MOINES, IA 3.17
BALTIMORE, MD 424 BALTIMORE, MD 7.44
DALLAS, TX 790 DALLAS, TX 6.08
CINCINNATI, OH 144 CINCINNATI, OH 4.65

KANSAS CITY, MO 399 KANSAS CITY, MO 7.83
0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 0.00 1.00 2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 6.00 7.00 8.00 9.00
Figure 5.11: Full-time equivalent (FTE) staff among the Figure 5.12: FTE staff per 10,000 residents
6 peer cities

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