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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes July 26, 2022 Page 4 A.1 Resolution 22-061 – Approving the Use of Central Park for Special Event on August 5-6, 2 2022. 3 4 City Manager Yunker reviewed Julianne Hunter has submitted a Special Event Permit to hold the 5 annual VillageFest celebration August 5-6, 2022. Since the request involves City property, 6 amplified music and expects to exceed 100 attendees; a Special Event Permit is required. On July 7 15, 2022 VillageFest representatives met with Staff to discuss the needs of City services, 8 primarily focused around road closures and staff support for the parade, and support services for 9 the events in Central Park. Staff found those requests to be reasonable and consistent with past 10 celebrations. 11 12 Motion by Councilmember Jenson, seconded by Councilmember Walker, to Approve Resolution 13 22-061 – Approving the Use of Central Park for Special Event on August 5-6, 2022. 14 15 Motion carried 4-0. 16 B.17 Community Survey Presentation. 18 19 Assistant to the City Manager Nicole Miller reviewed a power point presentation summarizing 20 the National Community Survey. The last community survey was done in 2005. The City has 21 partnered with Polco who conducts the survey. There are 140 community related survey 22 questions which address ten key facets of community livability. Ms. Miller reviewed why the 23 survey is being conducted and how it will be conducted. Randomly 2,800 residents will receive 24 the survey and the birthday method will decide who within the household completes the survey. 25 An invitation postcard is mailed first, followed by a survey packet that includes a paper survey. 26 All mailings will include an URL to respond online. 27 28 The mail and web data will be combined into a single electronic dataset. Completed surveys will 29 be reviewed and cleaned and weighted to increase representation. The survey dataset is analyzed 30 by Polco and a final report will be delivered. 31 32 The survey will start August 1, 2022 and should take 20 minutes to complete. After the survey 33 closes, all residents will be invited to participate. Those results will be kept separate. Ms. Miller 34 reviewed the project timeline. The final report will be received by October 17 and the report 35 results will be presented at the City Council meeting on December 13, 2022. The survey results 36 will be posted at savmn.com/communitysurvey. 37 38 Councilmember Webster thanked Ms. Miller for taking the lead on this project. 39 40 Mayor Stille stated the Council adopted a policy capturing this is a tool that will assist the 41 Council to make decisions. He thanked Ms. Miller for her time working on this project. 42 C.43 Liquor Operations Mid-Year Report. 44 8