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many acres of mowing? And even <br />though we're primarily in one county <br />there's a large difference in snowfall <br />from one area to another, so how much <br />snowplowing are we doing?" says Dice. <br />"When we spit this information out we <br />discovered that some reservations were <br />not equally staffed according to work <br />demand. We shifted positions around as <br />another way to cope with demand. The <br />next step that we're about three-quarters <br />of the way from completing is a classifi- <br />cation distribution evaluation, which <br />will place the appropriate mix of hourly <br />classifications in each reservation." <br /> In another case, Dice says, one <br />reservation had no highly technical <br />building maintenance needs (like <br />HVAC), but one person classified to do <br />this work. Another reservation had <br />eight buildings with HVAC needs and <br />only two HVAC people. These and oth& ~ases are being <br />addressed with classification distribution. <br /> In similar fashion, Cleveland Metroparks is maxfmizing <br />its fleet and maintenance vehicles through focused invento- <br />ries plugged into a software management program. This <br /> <br /> inventory, followed by the reallocation <br /> of resources, has the added bonus of <br /> freeing up the people who work the <br /> machinery to do other things that were <br /> needed, but perhaps not as high up on <br /> the priority list. <br /> Park operations used to have a fleet <br /> of very large dump trucks that sat <br /> around a lot because of their primary <br /> and specialized use - like salting the <br /> roads, hauling asphalt, snow removal or <br /> the occasional large haul. <br /> Demands and needs were evaluat- <br /> ed, and less expensive, multi-use trucks <br /> were acquired. Dice says the trucks are <br /> built to handle 85 percent of the jobs, <br /> while a smaller fleet of dump trucks <br /> handles the other 15 percent. <br /> "The easy way to do that is to look <br />at the speedometer and the hour meter. <br />If you see an eight-year-old truck with <br />26,000 miles on it that cost $50,000 you're thinking, 'What <br />could I have purchased with $50,000 that 1 would'ye put <br />more than 26,000 miles on?' And then, 'What would have I <br />not been able to do?'" says Dice. "Now the trucks they were <br />replaced with - much smaller dump trucks, pick-up trucks <br /> <br />ParkWorks can provide the answer with <br />the historical data related to all work <br />performed at the park. <br /> <br />ParkWorks SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS <br /> <br />Work Order Management <br />Preventive Maintenance Management <br />Park Equipment Management <br />Materials Management <br /> <br />Handheld Paperless Solutions (Palm OS) <br />Web Enabled Work Request Module <br />Over 300 Built-in Reports and Graphs <br />Park Asset Management <br />Personnel Management <br /> <br />Lawn Maintenance & Trash Scheduling <br />Project Management <br />Contract Management <br />Park Safety and Risk Management <br />Hazardous Materials Management <br />Bar Coding <br />Estimates, Forecasting, Budgeting <br />GASI~ 34/35 Compliant <br />Cross*plafformed with Mae and PC <br /> <br />TMASYSTEMS <br />The Power To Manage. <br /> The Power To Succeed. <br /> <br /> 800.862.1130 (loll free} o.918.494.2890 (main) · www.lmasystems.com <br /> <br />Circle Reader Service/t702 <br /> porksandrecbu,i ........ I Au,us, 2002 [ PARKS&REC BUSINESS ~ <br /> <br /> <br />