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1 level of information about the City. Summarized that with one • 2 exception, in spite of the disparate channels of information, 3 people seem to have accepted that and have gotten used to it 4 and appear to have their means of gathering information. 5 CITY SET NEW HIGH FOR FIRST RING SUBURBS 6 To support the excellent findings his firm had found related to St. 7 Anthony, Mr. Morris reiterated that the surveyors had contacted 400 8 randomly selected households throughout the community, which provided 9 a plus or minus accuracy rate of 5% of the feelings of the community, 10 or 95 out of 100 cases. Great precautions were taken with this 11 sampling by using a city map to keep track of where people were 12 located within the City to guarantee a good representative spread, 13 including apartments, was reflected in the results. The sample was 14 validated with available census and Metropolitan Council data, which 15 had resulted in Decisions Resources concluding they had a very 16 defendable and representative sample. 17 Mr. Morris told Councilmember Marks, it would be very hard to separate 18 out the response from the population who owned their own homes who 19 represented a very small sub-sample in the survey, but agreed thee was 20 a problem of perceived estrangement from the rest of the City in the 21 neighborhood north of 37th Avenue N.E. 22 There was general agreement that the staff should look at individual 23 mailings of the Newsletter to the apartment dwellers. Mr. Morris 24 reported Plymouth' s success in bringing its high density apartment 25 residents in touch with the rest of the community after their 26 newsletter was delivered to each apartment and Plymouth had even held 27 a couple of council meetings in those areas. He said that in spite of 28 the fact that 60a of the people in the apartment area perceived they 29 were not a part of the city and planned to move elsewhere, a second 30. survey had found the disconnection problem had disappeared. 31 Councilmember Ranallo pointed to representation that area had with 32 Mayor Haik and Commissioners Jones , McGinn and Madden. Councilmember 33 Ranallo recalled that Karen Karkula of Mirror Lake Manor had been very 34 active on another City commission, but there had been little 35 interest on the part of apartment renters to participate. 36 Mr. Childs reiterated that whatever type of information the 37 residents are getting, they seem to be comfortable with it. The 38 Manager said if staff ' s plan -'to get the Newsletter into every mail box 39 is successful, he anticipated a second survey of that Ramsey County 40 section of the City might be as positive as Plymouth' s had been when 41 it came to elimination of feelings of alienation from the rest of 42 the community. Mr. Childs also reminded the Councilmembers that about 43 a quarter of the renters have the desire to obtain permanent housing 44 in the City, which they have been unable to do because there are no 45 empty single family homes to move into, which may have contributed to • 46 their feelings of frustration. 18