Minutes - Council Work Session - 04/23/2024

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CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION CITY OF RAMSEY ANOKA COUNTY STATE OF MINNESOTA The Ramsey City Council conducted a City Council Work Session on Tuesday, April 23, 2024, at the Ramsey Municipal Center, 7550 Sunwood Drive NW, Ramsey, Minnesota. Members Present: Acting Mayor Chris Riley Councilmember Chelsee Howell Councilmember Debra Musgrove Councilmember Michael Olson Councilmember Dan Specht Members Absent: Mayor Mark Kuzma Councilmember Matt Woestehoff Also Present: City Administrator Brian Hagen Administrative Services Director Colleen Lasher City Attorney Fritz Knaak City Clerk Katie Schmidt 1. CALL TO ORDER Acting Mayor Riley called the City Council Work Session to order at 5:30 p.m. 2. TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION 2.01: Review Community Survey Demographics Questions City Administrator Hagen reviewed the Staff report in regard to the updates made to the community survey from the Council’s last discussion of this item. He shared that Jade Arocha, Director Survey Research with Polco is in attendance online to offer some clarity on the demographic questions that are asked on the survey. Ms. Arocha explained that the demographic questions are not typically allowed to be removed from the surveys as they help calculate the demographic data. She noted that questions d11, d12, and d14 are half of the questions that they use for the statistical weighting. She said without these results they would not be able to weight the survey data, which offers concerns of not being able to do benchmark comparisons to other communities and that this would have an effect on being able to compare this years and future year’s data to historical data. Acting Mayor Riley asked if they would still be able to compare unweighted historical data if these questions were removed. City Council Work Session / April 23, 2024 Page 1 of 7