Minutes - Council Work Session - 03/19/2024 - Special

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Councilmember Howell noted that the question about air quality in question 7 is not a necessary question as this is something that is controlled by the State. She added that the City does not have a whole lot of control on other items under question 7, including availability of affordable quality food, quality healthcare, preventative health services, and quality mental health care as the City does not personally provide these services. She noted that she finds these questions odd; however, they were in the 2020 survey. She said these questions seem useless. Councilmember Olson stated that although the City does not provide things like health care services, the Council has the ability to weigh in on what they are encouraging to come to the City. He said he sees some value in these questions. Councilmember Specht said he would be okay with removing the question on air quality. Councilmember Woestehoff said if the question on air quality was in the 2020 survey then he thinks it should stay in for this year. City Administrator Hagen asked if there was anything missing from the list of City services in question 9. Councilmember Musgrove asked if they ask any questions in the survey about taxes. City Administrator Hagen noted that question 9 is just about the services the City provides and taxing residents is not a service provided. Councilmember Musgrove added that the City does not have bus or transit services and these are done by the County and the Met Council. City Administrator Hagen explained the benefit of having these questions in the survey is that they can run an infinite number of follow up surveys that are more targeted. He stated if bus and transit have a very low score and the City wants to put out another survey just on bus and transit, they could do this to get more targeted information. He noted that having this data would be a good thing. Councilmember Specht asked if they should add a question about metro mobility. City Administrator Hagen said he would not recommend that at this point. Mayor Kuzma asked if they would like to add the State government to question 11. Councilmember Woestehoff recommended also adding a question about the County government. Councilmember Specht said that question 10 answers the question about government performance in Ramsey and he does not see a reason for question 11. Councilmember Musgrove agreed that this question does not seem to add value. City Council Work Session / March 19, 2024 Page 5 of 17