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Our recently completed city survey is a vital tool that provides insight into the residents' <br />perceptions about the community. It was rewarding to receive such positive responses. It <br />is also necessary and helpful to hear the negatives, and it helps us know where to focus <br />our attention. <br />An abbreviated summary of survey results will be in your next newsletter, and the full <br />results will be on the city website soon. The city also plans to run a series of follow -up <br />guest columns in the Quad Press to provide more detail to residents regarding the survey <br />results. <br />We continue to work on communication with our citizens, and look forward to resident <br />involvement in our visioning process this summer. <br />Another 20/20 Vision recommendation in 1996 was to monitor the adequacy of our roads <br />and work with other agencies on transportation issues. We all know that transportation <br />needs and lack of funding have grown dramatically since 1996 across the metro area. We <br />are taking aggressive action, in cooperation with Anoka County and MN/Dot, to find <br />ways to fund improvements at the 35W and 35E interchanges. Federal funds for 35E are <br />programmed for 2009 construction, and we continue to work toward funding for the 35W <br />interchange in 2007. <br />Over the past 10 years we have made significant progress towards the goals of the 20/20 <br />vision. We have an excellent base to begin our new visioning process and we look <br />forward to a collaborative visioning process this summer. <br />6 <br />