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1 reported the surveyors- had told him they had -.gotten the impres- 2 sion that people who - had :no .strong feelings about-.City ,gover'nment . I one 'way or another; jus,t -didn'. t take the time to , return - the. .4 - questionnaire which h-ad been mailed to them and- perceive 5 . Anthony would be lucky . to -get 400- mailed returns .from the whole 6' City if .the survey were done that way. 7 Sundland recalled that when the survey of the City had been taken .8 about ten years ago, about a large percentage of the question- 9 naives the scouts delivered and picked up in a few days had been 10 returned. 11 Childs said Decision -Resources had assured him the 400 calls they 1.2 made would .be comprised of a cros's section of ages, incomes , 13 housing- types, -community location, work background_ and sex, thus 14 providing a statistically valid sample of opinions from the com- 15 munity; 16 indicated the surveyors had said they could. also divide the .City 17 into census districts to allow data to be further broken down; . 18 1 .. 19 reported the Council could either develop their own set of 20 questions or could have staff work with the firm on the questions 21 they wanted answered; 22 said Decision Resources -had - told him they would charge $4 , 800 -for 23- the 4.00 calls of 60 questions each no matter how long it takes to* 24 complete.-them -and--to prepare a detailed. analysis of each response ;.. 25 indicated the firm- representatives had estimated it would take 26 them about.- 30 days to complete the City project, which would inc- 27 lude about: four days to make the calls , plus. a couple of days to 28 call back persons the callers hadn' t been able to get the first 29 time they tried; 30 concluded by saying, whether the Council chooses Decision . 31 Resources or another- firm to make the survey, or decided to have 32 another in-house prepared survey as ten years ago, he perceived 33 the Council was not working in a vacuum and needed more current 34 indication of how the community perceived its government; and. 35 suggested this project could be considered to in addition to the 36 market research being done for the Kenzie Redevelopment Project 37 and as such could be paid for at least in part from H.R.A. funds . 38 39 Enrooth '.agreed it- was certainly time to have another .survey taken 40 because -the Council might be acting-.on impressions and input about 41 the community which might not- be current ; 42 requested that -the .Manager •check to see.. if there were. .other com-. 43 panies who: did this •same ''type :of .survey and, .if. there were, to 44 get . some competitive bids for the project. • 8