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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, February 11, 2013 Page 31 to the subcommittee as applicable. Councilmember Willmus spoke in support of retaining the removal with/without cause based on past issues, and expressed his strong interest in keeping that provision in place to expedite the process when a legitimate situation comes forward. At the request of Councilmember McGehee, Mayor Roe advised that he anticipat- ed the subcommittee and City Manager to collect their information and if neces- sary, present them in two different presentations one on the uniform structure por- tion of the proposed ordinance and a second on the detailed ordinances for each commission. e. Consider Conducting a Resident Survey A Survey Question Comparison between Shoreview questions and the Cobalt document was provided as a bench handout. At the request of Mayor Roe, City Manager briefly summarized materials provid- ed and proposals received from the RFP process, as detailed and provided as at- tachments to the RCA dated February 11, 2013. Discussion included the last Decision Resources survey done in Roseville in 1998; lack of response by Decision Resources to the City's RFP and the cost 2.5 times higher than Cobalt or the National Citizens Survey; ease of use and infor- mation among various surveys; whether or not the City had used the information provided in the last Cobalt survey to its best advantage to make effective use of that available data; ability to add questions to any of the survey options; prefer- ence for a smaller survey and larger cross-section of citizens; effective of and be- tween phone versus mailed surveys; and local survey firms versus nation-wide firms that were not necessarily amenable to Midwestern communities. Councilmembers Laliberte, Willmus and McGehee expressed their preference for the less complicated survey of Decision Resources. Councilmembers Willmus and McGehee spoke in support of phone surveys ver- sus mail surveys. Councilmember Laliberte asked staff to contact Decision Resources to determine their rationale in not responding to the City's RFP. Mayor Roe noted comments he'd heard over the last six (6) years that Roseville didn't want to compare itself to peers; while at the same time hearing the oppo- site, providing little consistency. Councilmember Willmus expressed his interest in comparisons with communities immediately adjacent to Roseville (e.g. New Brighton, Shoreview).