PL PACKET 11171987 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

w1 The. Manager indicated that tie:-perceived whether the Council goes. with.. -2 :.this particular firm or not ,:..they should be . .g.iving serious ,considera- . 3 tion•. to updating the survey which-.,had been done in .either . 1978 or 79 . 4 He also'=:indicated one - area of information the . .Council might want to . 5 pursue :would: be, to-find out j ust how .many homeowners over...5*5 intend to. . 6 stay in their homes as they get older -because some - of .the assumptions 7 made when the redevelopment project was first considered might not have 8 been altogether accurate. - . 9- - Mr.-- Childs said when Decision- . Resources made a survey , of .Roseville 10 residents , many of the seniors had indicated they had- no intention .,of. 11 moving out of their homes.. because of. the quality of life they -enjoyed 12 'there-.' A good number had i=ndicated they - ,perceived their homes were. . 13 small enough and new enough that they could .afford to hire any home 14 maintenance help they might need -when they reached the .age where they 15 couldn' t -do those tasks themselves. 16 The Manager asked the Councilmembers how they felt about having the 17 survey done and said if they were in favor of the. concept. he would get 18 further information about the most cost effective method of getting the 19 data they wanted to have included in the survey. 20 - The ,following discussions ensued: 21 Enrooth indicated his greatest concern would be that, with �22 only a phone survey being done, the people .who were favorably 23 disposed towards the City or those who were. really upset about 24 some issue, would take the 20 minutes it would take ,to answer 25 that many questions. 26 Childs told him the -Decision Resource people had- answered his 27- own concerns about that point by indicating that when they had 28 made similar community needs surveys in Roseville, Shoreview, 29 Plymouth, Inver Grove Heights , Burnsville, and some other . 30 suburbs, the callers had been able to convince those they 31 reached that they were offering them a rare opportunity to 32 say whatever they wanted about their city. . The callers 33 found out that people love to talk about their own communities 34 even to the extent some made arrangements to continue the con- 35 versations at a later time if they were interrupted or had .to go 36 somewhere before they were finished. In a lot of instances the 37 callers had' a hard time getting people off the lines , once they 38 , got started talking; 39 said the survey-.representatives had .told him they had run paral- 40 lel phone and mail surveys- in parts of St:. Paul and found that 41 the opposite from what Councilmember Enrooth feared,- was .true, that 42 it had 'been generally those people who had strong feelings about a 43 specific .issue who -had mailed back a response while most people, 44 once they were on the phone ; not only didn' t hang -up, but were 45 more than willing to take the .time to :answer all the. questions put �46 to them; 7