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1 Councilmember Marks indicated the several attempts he had made to have 2 coffee parties in the apartments had been unsuccessful. 3 Mayor Sundland told Mr. Morris his was only one survey being made in 4 the City at this time, the other being that which the school district 5 mailed out to residents, a few of whom had told the Mayor they found 6 the questions too complicated to understand. 7 Mr. Childs, recalling discussions earlier that evening about the 8 City' s code enforcement, drew attention to the survey' s indication 9 that the average St. Anthony resident perceived the City is neither 10 too tough nor too lenient, but about right when it came to that. He 11 added that corrections had now been made at staff level which should 12 prevent recurrence of situations where "someone plays both ends 13 against the middle and gets away with something. " He said he 14 wouldn't expect a "flood of ordinance breakers" in St. Anthony in the 15 future. 16 The Decision Resources representatives were thanked for a good job and 17 Councilmember Makowske said she thought those thanks should also go to 18 the residents who took the time to answer the many questions in the 19 survey. In that respect, Ms. Traxler said her callers had found the 20 St. Anthony residents to be "as happy as any they had ever contacted 21 to be able to express their opinions" with many staying on the phone a 22 half an hour, where normally a survey of this length should take only -3 15 minutes. One resident broke all the records , talking for an hour 24 and fifteen minutes. 25 Mayor Sundland said he had told one person who questioned the validity 26 of the survey that the TV networks had been able to base their 27 presidential election projections on a poll of only 300 voters as 28 they went into the polling places. 29 Mr. Childs and Mr. Hamer indicated staff was already using the survey 30 with the latter saying the Public Works people were looking for ways 31 to improve on any problem areas. 32 Mr. Childs added that in addition to improving current performance, 33 one of the purposes of the survey had been to get a handle on 34 information which could be used for long range planning and decision 35 on how the City' s resources should be channeled. 36 UNFINISHED BUSINESS 37 Motion by Marks, seconded by Makowske to approve the second reading 38 of the ordinance increasing water rates. 39 ORDINANCE 1988-003 40 AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO WATER RATES; AMENDING �1 SUBDS. 2 AND 3 OF SECTION 550 : 00 OF THE 1973 19