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ME Decision WE Resources Ltd. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This study contains the results of a survey of 404 randomly selected residents of the City of Mounds View. Survey responses were gathered by professional interviewers between February 13, and February 20, 1990. - The average interview of city residents took thirty-one minutes. Random samples such as this one yield results projectable -to the entire ..universe of Mounds View residents within + 5.0 percent in 95 out of, 100 cases. Mounds -View can best be described as a combination high turnover starter -home community and maturing suburban area. There are; in fact,two communities existing together. -Forty- four percent.of the residents have moved to -,the city during the past five years; thirty percent plan to leave in the next five years. But, forty-five percent of the residents have lived in Mounds View over ten years and a similar percentage have no plans to move for at least the next decade. The in -migration and out- migration rates suggest, in fact, that Mounds View is stabilizing and become a -destination community rather than a stopover. The average �cesident in Mounds View has lived in the city for 9.6 years. : He/She plans to remain for at least thenext decade. The average household is composed of two married adults" with- at least one school -aged child ',or pre-schooler. Three - ,quarter of the residents own their own.homes. =The age of. the' .,average resident is 39.3 years old;--- in fact, fifty-seven percent reported their age within the 25-44-year.range. The workforce is'a mixture of white collar and blue collar households. Professional -Technical and Owner -Manager occupations are' held by thirty-eight percent of the 'sample. Blue Collar households are thirty-two percent. Clerical -Sales occupations contribute another fourteen percent. Retirees are a low eleven percent. Sixty percent of all married households are dual income. The median household income was estimated at $34,600.00, about $5,000.00 below the Metropolitan Area suburban norm. Mounds View residents again displayed their antipathy toward property tax increases. By forty-six percent to forty percent, respondents opposed a property tax hike to maintain city services at their current levels. Part of this may be the result of the value which they placed on those services: the median rating was good -to -average value; a mixed result at best. As for current property tax levels, residents felt that Mounds View was about average in comparison with other suburban communities. And, while thirty-five percent were unable to even venture a guess, 3128 Dean Court a Minneapolis, Minnesota 55416 0 (612) 920-0337