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City Council <br />Meeting Minutes <br />September 11, 2018 <br />Page 11 of 13 <br />point that can suggest other ways of getting more in depth information. These questions <br />will get good information that can lead Council to look for more information and input. <br />Councilmember Loo stated #3 should give an option for "I don't care". Question #5 <br />people might mark everything essential and some are opposing views. The whole <br />question is about multi -modal, and the car question is buried. She is worried the <br />questions give residents expectations for projects we cannot fulfill. <br />Councilmember Stolzmann stated now Council has seen the big picture, perhaps there <br />is a better process to use to get this information such as public hearings or outreach. <br />We need to prioritize and focus. Each topic is important to someone and we don't have <br />the bandwidth to take on everything so we need to determine what we can take on and <br />some public opportunities to see where people are on those topics. Think about our <br />priorities and scope and use the public process for those. <br />Councilmember Leh noted the reason we do surveys at all is to find out what the public <br />thinks and we are not entirely comfortable with our own sense of what is going on in the <br />community and public opinion. Council gets information from the public in a lot of ways, <br />and we do it in good faith, but still some information is useful and we can only get from a <br />survey. He wants to make sure we don't throw something out that is useful because we <br />are frustrated with the whole. <br />Mayor Pro Tem Lipton said we seem to be in serious disagreement about the project <br />and didn't think we should try to salvage it tonight. <br />Councilmember Maloney still thought a policy survey could inform us, but this is not a <br />concise policy survey but an amalgamation of all of our ideas. Transportation questions <br />can be asked during the Transportation Master Plan and Sam's from the market study. <br />Broadband is too early. There are some easy ways to get this information in other ways <br />and we can do another way. <br />Mayor Muckle couldn't justify spending more money and staff time on this right now. <br />Councilmember Loo asked if another Committee should be appointed to take another <br />look at this. <br />City Manager Balser stated staff needs clear consensus from the entire Council and <br />asked if this is a priority for everyone to work on. Everyone in the room needs to do this <br />and needs to determine if this is a priority for Council's time and resources right now. <br />Mayor Muckle was not sure there would be a better result if forwarded to another <br />Committee. None of the questions were meant to be political, just trying to see if these <br />issues are important to the community and answer some questions. It is clear from the <br />conversation the broadband question is too early in the process. The difference from <br />