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MINUTES City Council November~ 4, 1987 Par•k Sur•vey Mor~r•i s r•epor•ted that the basi c fee i ncl uded two or• thr~ee meeti ngs Cont. to develop the topics and usually a meeting to r•eview the question for•mat. Blesener• questioned whether• the r•esults of the sur~vey would be adher~ed to if the sur•vey addr•esses the issue of ballfields and the City gets answer•s that it does not like. Scalze stated that she did not see the need to addr~ess the issue of ballfields in the sur•vey as she felt that ballfields wer•e needed~ pointing out that the City has a population of over• 8,000 and owns no ballfields. Fahey asked if it wer•e commonly known that a telephone sur•vey was mor~e reliable than a mail sur•vey. Mor•r•i s r•epl i ed that i t was and that wi th a tel ephone sur•vey i t i s easi er• to get a tr~uly mor•e r•andom sampl e. Mor•r•i s al so r•epor~ted that wi th the number• of follow-upsnecessar•y in a mail sur•vey, they ar•e finding that the cost of a mail sur•vey is almost as much as a telephone sur•vey. LaValle asked how a r•andom sample is selected. Mor•r~is explained ways that r•andom samples ar•e selected which involves methods for• ensur•ing that as many men as women ar~e included in the survey. Scalze asked appr~oximately how long a sur•vey would take. Mor•r•is r•eplied that it can take up to 4 weeks to develop the list of questions. However~, fr~om the time the questions ar•e developed it can take between 1 week to 4 weeks befor~e the City has the r~esults of the sur~vey. Fahey asked for• a summar~y of why the Par•k Commission felt the sur•vey was necessar•y. Scalze pointed out that the City r•ecently pur•chased the Johnson/ Mostad pr~operty and would like to know how the citizens in the City would like to see this pr•oper•ty developed. Ther•e is also the potential pur•chase of up to 30 acr•es in the Center•ville Road ar•ea and the Commission would like to know what facilities other• than ballfields people would like to see developed on this pr~oper•ty. There ar~e also the easements the City is acquir~ing under• the NSP power• 1ines that could be used for• tr•ails or• tot lots. The Par~k Commission would also like to focus on the Thunder• Bay ar~ea and the new people in that ar•ea, and see what these r~esidents ar~e inter•ested in seeing in their• neighbor~hood. Scalze pointed out that Little Canada has a smaller• population ~han Shor~eview or Roseville, and asked why a 400 sample was necessary. Mor•r•i s r•epl i ed that the accur~acy of the sur•vey i s based on the si ze of the sample. Page -4-