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currently facing r.�s�dents. Citizen empowerment was at a moderately high level. An average number of residents -- twenty-six percent -- felt that they could not have a say about the way the City of Roseville runs things, if they wanted. Most cammunities score between twenty percent and thirty percent on this query: the Roseville percentage is at the middle of this range. As such, the ability to influence decision-makers is not a major issue. Eighty-three percent of the sample also reported a"very strong" or "somewhat strong" sense of community identity among residents. This ranks among the top of Metropolitan Area suburban communities. Cohesiveness, then, is not a major concern in RoseviZie. These ties are also shown ih the extent of volunteerism. While only twenty-nine percent were aware of current city-sponsored volunteer programs, a higher than normal thirteen percent of the residents said they currently participated in those programs. City services were, however, viewed by forty-eight percent as "a good value" far the property taxes paid; this characterization is among the strongest in the Metropalitan Area. In fact, city services evaluations were exceptionally and uniformly high. Police pratection, fire protectian, snow plowing, administration of elections, and park maintenance scored appro�ral ratings of eighty-five percent or higher. The Fall leaf pick-up prQgram, solid waste management, recycling, city street repa�r and maintenance, and animal control topped seventy p�rc�nt approval marks. Only code enforcement fell behind the rest, with sixty-five percent approval -- but a high twenty-seven percent were not familiar enough with this city service to rate it. Disapproval ratings never climbed above sixteen percent -- a moderately Iow level. In general, city services are very well- received by the citizenry. Forty percent of the community indicated their streets had been reconstructed as part of the City's "Pavement Management Program." A seventy-eight percent approval rating was awarded to the prograin by those residents. The high evaluations of this program certainZy helped to minimize the extent of disapproval on city street repair and maintenance practices. Three-quarters of the sample supported providing city services to adjacent suburbs on a contract fee basis; only eighteen percent disagreed. Disagreement was based on two points: inadequ.acy in providing services to current residents and an opposition to expansion beyond the city borders. Sixty-eight percent rated code enforcement "about right;" but, twenty-five percent felt that codes enforce�nent was "not tough enough." Junk cars and messy yards were the source of this dissatisfaction. Residents consistently supported extension of current housing inspection practices. Ninety-one percent favored regular inspectians on the outside of all rental dw�lling units, 2