Rate your community against all seven elements of a working pet waste program. About ten minutes, plus the walk. The result is a board-packet page, not a sales quote.
No form to fill out. Your scores are not sent anywhere.
Start the ScorecardA pet waste program is a system with seven working parts. Communities that struggle usually don’t have a bad vendor. They have a missing element, and it is rarely the one anyone is looking at. Rate each element from 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent) as you walk the community.
The bands come from the Seven Elements framework: each element is rated 1 to 5, and the average, not the total, sets the band. But the band is a summary, and summaries hide exactly what a community manager needs.
Two communities can both average 3.4 while one has a single failing element and the other is mediocre across the board. Those are different problems with different budgets.
So read the profile first, the three opportunities second, and the band last. It exists mainly so a board member can see movement year over year.
Instead of “should we keep paying for this?”, the board sees “we score well on equipment and service, weakest on placement and communication. Here is what fixing those two involves.” Some fixes need budget. Many don’t: relocating an underused station or refreshing resident station maps costs little to nothing, and a scorecard is how those no-cost wins get noticed.
A decision, a walk, or a document request. Can happen this month.
Small enough to absorb in operating spend without a special assessment.
Belongs in the draft budget the board is about to review.
Every opportunity on this page carries a budget impact indicator, so the conversation with the board separates what needs money from what needs a decision.
Print it as it is. The score, the profile and the three opportunities fit one page.
Aim for the weakest element to improve, not the total.
For a second set of eyes on the elements you scored lowest.
CoPS on Doody provides reliable, fully documented commercial pet waste station service across eligible communities in the DC metro and Atlanta metro: written service terms, a defined service day, a three-business-hour issue response, and no long-term contract required.
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