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services. Sixty-eight percent also feel that there are adequate medica3 services available in Roseville. If a medium sized medical facility with out-patient services was built in Roseville, forty-eight percent of the sample indicated a likel�haod to use it. Among those more negative, a preference for their current medical provider, insurance requirements, and location were they key factors. Only fifty percent of the sample was aware of a neighborhood crime watch program in their local area. Twe�ty-three percent were current participants. But, an additional forty-one p�rcent thought they would participate in such a program if one were offered in their neighborhood. More aggressive publicity and recruitment �fforts would undoubtedly result in greater participation in neighborhoad crime watch programs across the city. On the subject of lawfui gambling, there is a remarkable degree af consistency in the answer patterns of respondents. In fact, responses statistically scale: that is, there are three clear groups: ban gambling, "watchdogs��' and de-regulators. A fifty-four percent majority fall into the middle group, those who support charitabie gambling activities but all strangly support more regulation and stiff automat�c penalties for violation. The anti-gambling group is twenty percent, while the de-regulators are sixteen percent. In ter�ris of individual behavior, sixty-two percent of the community reported gambling during the past year. The most often cited activity was the purchase of Minnesota state lottery tickets. Pull-tabs were next at twenty-seven percent, bingo, at thirteen percent, and tip boards, at ten percent. Hence, a majority of residents already at least periodically gamble. Fitty-four percent of the community saia�AAMCO and Williams Pipeline Companies storage tank facilities as at least a moderate public safety concern. Fifty-nine percent'viewed the pipeline similarly. In �ine with these concerns, ninety-five percent felt that user fees from hazardous materials companies should be collected ta provide various protective sex�vices minimizing the risks associated with the presence of those materials in Roseville. The City Staff received a job approval rating of seventy- five percent and a disapproval ratir�g of nine percent. Both the absolute levei of approval and the almost nine-to-one ratio ot approval-to-disapproval are among the highest in the Metropolitan Area. The thirty-nine percent of the residents reporting first- hand contact with the staff is much higher than comparable suburban ar�as. The approval ratings of staff stemmed primarily from good experiences with them; the negative ratings resulted from feelings that the staff could improve. Not only is the staff serving an innrdinate number of citizens, it is doing so extremely well. C'�