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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, February 10, 2014 Page 22 Councilmember Etten advised that he had spoken to Parks & Recreation Director Lonnie Brokke about including those questions, and while Mr. Brokke did want to be able to track things over time, some may not be that helpful this early in the Parks & Recreation Renewal process. Councilmember Etten advised that he would send some other ideas for order consideration to Mr. Bowman to bring to the survey company for their feedback. Survey Length Councilmember Willmus opined that he didn't have any issues with a longer sur- vey it got at the questions needing to be asked; and wasn't worried about having a lack of responses, as the company guaranteed a certain number of responses. Councilmember McGehee concurred, opining that combining some things was prudent, and by the time the survey company was done with their formatting, it may be in the target range anyway. Councilmember McGehee expressed her sup- port of asking sufficient questions to get the information that is most useful. Councilmember Etten opined that information was important, but within reason, and questioned how many people would need to be contacted, and how that may affect the demographic numbers at the end count with willing respondents. At the request of Councilmember Etten, Mr. Bowman responded that the number of proposed questions was already over the contracted number in the proposal,but by the time further edits and combinations were done, he anticipated they may on- ly be over by ten questions. Mayor Roe suggested splitting the difference or finding other trade offs in nego- tiations with the survey firm, with consideration given to quantity and changes, and the margin of error. Councilmember McGehee expressed her interest in keeping the survey no less than 400 responses. Mayor Roe noted that the original proposal from the survey company had more people but fewer questions. Councilmember McGehee stated that she wanted the survey results to be as statis- tically significant as reasonably possible and if that meant an extra cost to round out the final questions, she was fine with that. Councilmember Laliberte agreed that the larger the random sample the better; and suggested putting this to their organization asking them to merge and do some other work in organizing it, seeking to get to eighty questions as they deem the most property process as they reorder it, and then to bring it back to the City