THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWNSHIP OF STRONG
2004 MUNICIPAL PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT
INFORMATION PUBLICATION FOR TAXPAYERS
Operating costs for
governance and corporate management as a percentage of
total municipal operating
costs 7.3 %
Operating costs for fire
services per $1,000 of assessment $.32
Operating costs for police
services per household $119.89
Violent crime rate per 1,000
persons 11.50
Property crime rate per 1,000
persons 19.17
Total crime rate per 1,000
persons 40.64
Number of youths charged per 1,000 youths 27.27
Operating costs for paved
(hard top) roads per lane kilometre $1,136.98
Operating costs for unpaved
(loose top) roads per lane kilometre $1,959.02
Operating costs for winter
maintenance of roadways per lane kilometre
maintained in the winter $362.33
Percentage of paved lane
kilometres where the condition is rated as
good to very good 10.3 %
Percentage of winter event
responses that met or exceeded locally
determined road maintenance standards 80 %
Operating costs for solid
waste disposal per household $79.37
Operating costs for solid
waste diversion (recycling) per household $11.04
Number of complaints received
concerning the collection of garbage and
recycled materials per 1,000
households NIL
Number of days in the year
when a Ministry of Environment compliance order
for remediation concerning an
air or groundwater standard was in effect for
the municipality’s solid
waste management facilities:
Forest Lake Road NIL
Muskoka Road NIL
Percentage of residential
solid waste diverted for recycling Tonnage
information is not available. In
total, 47.2 tons of material was recycled.
Operating costs for parks per
person NIL
Operating costs for
recreation programs per person $2.59
Operating costs for
recreation facilities per person $79.78
Total operating costs for parks, recreation programs and recreation facilities $107,406
Total participant hours for recreation programs per 1,000 persons 1,958.59
Hectares of open space 5
Hectares of open space per 1,000 persons 3,680.98
Total kilometres of trails 17
Total kilometres of trails per 1,000 persons 13.04
Square metres of recreation facility space 2,554
Square metres of recreation facility space per 1,000 persons 1,889.57
Operating costs for libraries
per person $16.90
Operating costs for libraries
per use $1.60
Library uses per person 12.68
Electronic library uses as a
percentage of total library uses 41
%
Non-electronic library uses
as a percentage of total library uses 59
%
Percentage of new development
with final approval which is located
within settlement areas 16.7 %
Percentage of land designated
for agricultural purposes which was preserved
and the number of hectares of
land originally designated for agricultural No
designated agricultural land in the
purposes which was re-designated for other uses Official Plan.