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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,August 20,2012 Page 3 8. Consider Items Removed from Consent 9. General Ordinances for Adoption 10. Presentations Acting Mayor Willmus announced that no formal action would be taken on Items 10. a, b or c due to not having a full City Council at tonight's meeting. However, he invited presentation by staff to provide background and information for the City Council's pre- liminary consideration. a. Resident Survey and Selection of Survey Company/Vendor Communications Specialist Tim Pratt reviewed additional background from his ini- tial partial presentation at the August 13, 2012 meeting; including the purpose of the survey; staff rationale for recommending Cobalt Community Research to con- duct a resident survey as the firm having done the 2011 survey. Additional detail was provided in the Request for Council Action (RCA) dated August 13 and August 20, 2012. Councilmember McGehee questioned staff's rationale in recommending that the Cobalt questions, format and method used in 2011 were superior to the firm used in the Request for Proposals (RFP's) done in the 1998 survey. Mr. Pratt responded that the Cobalt survey was geared specifically to Roseville citi- zens for budget-related issues and their satisfaction levels. At the request of Acting Mayor Willmus, Mr. Pratt advised that he had a list of the twelve (12) vendors from whom staff had solicited RFP's, and those having chosen not to respond, but not available at tonight's meeting. Mr. Pratt advised that Deci- sion Resources and the National Research Center had both asked additional ques- tions upon receipt of the RFP,but had apparently subsequently chosen not to submit a proposal. In response to Acting Mayor Willmus' comment that no formal action would be taken tonight; Mr. Pratt noted that this would not allow sufficient time to return data by December of 2012. In response to Councilmember McGehee's comments regarding timing for the sur- vey, City Manager Malinen advised that in planning discussions earlier in 2012, the City Council and staff had determined that the time to perform a survey was prefer- ably after Labor Day and before the holidays, thus the time frame proposed and based on goal setting processes. In response to Councilmember McGehee's question as to whether approval of a survey had come before the City Council as a formal request and her personal ques- tioning of why she needed this information by December, City Manager Malinen