11-16-05 Council Workshop Minutes

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MINUTES Or THE WORKSHOP MEETING CITY COUNCIL LITTLE CANADA, MINNESOTA NOVEMBER 16, 2005 Pursuant to due call and notice thereof a workshop meeting of the City Council of Little Canada, Minnesota was convened on the 16th day of November, 2005 in the Council Chambers of the City Center located at 515 Little Canada Road in said City. Mayor Bill Blesener called the meeting to order at 5:20 p.m. and the following members of the City Council were present at roll call: CITY COUNCIL: Mayor Mr. Bill Blesener Council Member Mr. Jim LaValle Council Member Mr. Rick Montour Council Member Ms. Barbara Allan Council Member Mr. John Keis ALSO PRESENT: City Administrator Mr. Joel R. Hanson Decision Resources Mr. Peter Leatherman Planning Comm. Mr. Tom Duray Parks &Rec Comm. Ms. Ginger Sackett Glaser Parks Consultant Mr. Bill Sanders Finance Director Ms. Shelly Rueckert Parks &Rec Director Mr. Jim Morelan Public Works Supt. Mr. Bill Dircks City Clerk Ms. Kathy Glanzer COMMUNITY Peter Leatherman, Decision Resources, reviewed the process for SURVEY writing, Cesting, and conducting the City's community survey. Once the surveying is complete, Decision Resources will present its results to the City. Leatherman anticipated thaC the survey would be pre-tested in December, modifications made to the questionnaire, if necessary, and then survey calling would begin in January. Calls would be made to a 400 random sample, which generates accuracy of results plus or minus 5%. Leatherman noted that Che purpose of tonight's workshop was to review and clarify the survey Copics that the City has generated thus far, as well as identify any new topics that there might be interest in. Leatherman began with a review of the minutes of September 28~h workshop meeting and the topics identified at that meeting. The first category is "Demographics". The consensus was that survey would break out results based on four City quadrants as was done in the 1995 survey.