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I received a copy of HRM’s much-celebrated citizen survey today. I have my own reactions to it, but before I speak, I’d like to hear what readers have to say. So, have at it; please leave your thoughts in the comments. The survey is here.
This article appears in Jan 21-27, 2010.
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I gave the survey a quick read at work – did some text searches thru it as well – found nothing to address the needs of the aging population here (that being all of us), nor anything addressing age-friendly communities.
If we want to consider how best to have people age in place (i.e. delay costly institutionalization) it is imperative that our (sub)urban design consider this.
I would like to fill it out and submit it, I have good and bad comments on the survey.
I like how they don’t ask anything about council size since 1) it has been in the news and 2) they always say they need a pay raise because similar size areas had a raise when larger cities have less council members…
There are too many comments, but overall I would say dissatisfied because they are just too wasteful in time and money. They bicker about animals ’til the cows come home, study everything and then shelve whatever they were looking at, can’t decide anything and when they do it costs 2-3x as much (e.g. central library), quick-fix tenders… The negatives always stand out. Also, all they seem interested in doing is creating more by-laws to fine the residents, thereby increasing their budget and making way for more wasteful spending.
I particularly liked how they want to know your income and taxes (the latter they can find out easily enough), what I make is none of their business. This might be another tool for their little tax-reform fiasco (look, these guys make 400k but pay only 500 in taxes because they choose to live in a shit-hole… We should milk them for more!)
Who ever heard of doing reputable survey by mail any more. Aside from whether the people that would go through these 24 pages and answer the right questions, and understand the complicated tables, what about all the paper that’s being used to print these and mail them? The survey asks about “green,” but WOW, this sure is not a green survey!