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Foth Infrastructure & Environment, LLC • 13 March 2014 A special e-mail address (SolidWasteManagementPlan@BloomingtonMN.gov), monitored daily by City staff, is available for comments, questions and dialog through-out the project. Interested parties are also encouraged to contact directly the City’s project manager for this Plan, Jim Gates, Deputy Director of Public Works. 5.3 City “Briefing” Newsletter The City has an award-winning newsletter, the Bloomington “Briefing”, that is a primary source of news, information and outreach for all matters relating to city government and services. An article was featured in the December 2013 “Briefing” about the Plan and to help promote attendance at the first Open House held on December 4. 6 Surveys An online survey (Survey Monkey) tool was used to solicit, gather and analyze input from interested residents and businesses about the Bloomington Plan. The resident survey was available on the Plan web page via hyperlinks to the survey forms. The Bloomington Plan web page prominently promoted responses to the surveys from December 10, 2013 through January 10, 2014. The web page banner read, “We Want Your Input.” The online survey was also promoted through other outreach methods, including: emails; the City “Briefing” newsletter; City Facebook and Twitter posts; and word of mouth. Some of the community organizations such as the Master Recyclers and Composters group also pushed responses to the survey. The same survey forms were also handed out to participants attending the first Open House held on December 4, 2013. These were coded in the same manner as the online survey responses. Appendix B-1 contains the quantified results in response to the multiple choice questions. Both the online and the hard copy responses were compiled to present composite results from both survey formats. Appendix B-2 contains the text responses to the open-ended questions. These were typed by the Consultant as near to their original, verbatim content as possible. The results compare well to the National Citizens SurveyTM discussed above. The National Citizens SurveyTM reported that about 93% of residents recycle. The slight difference may be due to the fact that the National Citizens Survey is taken from a random sample of all Bloomington residents while the Plan survey is a self-selected sample of individuals interested in recycling and other solid waste topics. 7 Open Houses 7.1 The First Open House on December 4 The first Open House was held for residents and businesses on December 4, 2013 at the Bloomington Civic Plaza 4:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. Approximately forty (40) residents attended the meeting including two (2) persons that identified themselves as haulers (who were also Bloomington residents). Tables were arranged for informal discussion centered on several pre- selected topics: trash, recycling, the Citywide Curbside Cleanup, and miscellaneous solid waste