City Council Study Session Agenda and Packet 2004 04 13

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COUNCIL COMMUNICATION TO: MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL FROM: WILLIAM A. SIMMONS CITY MANAGER DATE: April 13, 2004 SUBJECT: 2004 Louisville Citizen Survey. — Discussion/Direction ORIGINATING DEPARTMENT: City Manager's Office SUMMARY: Please find attached a draft of the 2004 Louisville Citizen Survey. The Citizen's Task Force appointed by the Mayor has met twice to review drafts of the survey prior to Tuesday night's meeting. Task Force Members include Elle Cabbage, Debbie Kreuger, Mallory Martin (chair of the Youth Advisory Board), Bill McDermott, Joanie Riggins and John Sackett. NRC proposes to conduct a mailed survey of Louisville residents. This survey will be designed to assess resident perceptions of the quality of Louisville services and their opinions on various policy issues, if desired. Many of questions from the 1999 survey will be included on the 2004 survey to provide comparisons over time and facilitate the City's benchmarking efforts. New questions will be included to address topics of current interest to the City. The survey will be designed as an omnibus citizen survey, meaning that it will address a wide variety of topics. The Mayor has requested that new questions of current interest to the City focus on the following topics: 1) Comp Plan 2) business retention and development 3) aquatics 4) housing 5) Public Access TV and 6) FasTracks RECOMMENDATION: Discussion/Direction SUBJECT 2004 Louisville Citizen Survey — AGENDA ITEM Discussion/Direction iii