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1 Mr. Morris told Councilmembers they had taken all the City' s sugges- 2 tions related to questions which should be asked and incorporated them 3 as well as possible into the questionnaire, with the exception of 4 some "apple pie issues" the responses to which he knew from experience 5 would be of no policy benefit to St. Anthony. 6 For the third time, Mr. Morris reassured the Councilmembers that the 7 questionnaire was not too long because city surveys had unquestionably 8 remained the easiest survey to do because "people love to talk about 9 their own city. " He said the refusal rate remains at 2% with many 10 cities going well below 1% and with most people saying they' re glad 11 that at last someone is seeking their opinion. 12 The topical areas into which the survey had been broken down in Mr. 13 Morris ' December 4th memorandum were explored again briefly. 14 Mr. Morris stated the following about the questionnaire: 15 *it could provide better insight about what various ages were 16 looking for when it came to housing as well as the seniors per- 17 ceptions of what type of housing they might consider to get them 18 to move; 19 *it would not be difficult to reword some questions to give the 20 Council some idea of how much support remained for their 21 attempts to redevelop the southern retail area; � 22 23 *question 106 could probably be adjusted to specify age cate- 24 gories between 55 and 70 as verification of the accepted assump- 25 tion that 40% of the community were in that category. Getting 26 the marital status and income levels would also give the 27 Council a better idea of the community' s composition; 28 *"Maintenance" would be changed to "reconstruction" in Question 29 67 and 89 and 90 would be couched in language which would not 30 resurrect old divisiveness but would let the respondents know 31 their opinions were being sought related to the make up of the 32 Fire Department. Those responses would also be flagged for 33 comments; 34 *question 97 was to be moved up in the survey as requested by 35 the Police Chief; 36 *questions about the respondents ' satisfaction with present 37 levels of communication related to City affairs would be worded 38 in such a way as to give the Council an idea of whether they 39 ought to spend more money to expand the quarterly Newsletter to 40 monthly .reports to the residents; 41 *it would probably not cost the Council any more to include. a 42 question related to where residents make their major purchases 43 which might be of benefit for future planning. • 16