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City of Palo Alto (ID # 14330)
City Council Staff Report
Meeting Date: 5/2/2022 Report Type: Action Items
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Title: Policy and Services Committee Recommends that the City Council
Direct Staff to Reduce the Length of the Community Survey and Work with
the Chair of the Policy & Services Committee as an Ad Hoc
From: City Manager
Lead Department: City Manager
Recommendation
The Policy and Services Committee Recommends that the City Council Direct Staff to Reduce
the Length of the Community Survey and Work with the Chair of the Policy & Services
Committee as an Ad Hoc.
Background
At the April 12, 2022 Policy and Services Committee, the Committee voted 2-1 with the
following motion:
To recommend the City Council: Direct staff to reduce the length of the [community]
survey and work with the Chair of the Policy & Services Committee as an ad hoc.
This motion came after discussion of the staff report with an overview of the existing survey
questions (CMR #14242). The Committee reflected on the work done by the Policy and Services
Committee in 2020 in preparation of the last survey (CMR #11500; Minutes) where the 2020
Policy and Services Committee reviewed the questions and assigned an ad hoc committee to
finalize the questions.
Discussion
The Policy and Services Committee at the April 12 discussion expressed interest in reviewing
the survey questions with the Policy and Services Chair as an ad hoc to find ways to shorten the
survey if possible while ensuring that year-over-year survey comparison data was not lost. Staff
informed the Committee that the review should happen this spring to ensure that the survey
could go out on time this fall to receive the survey data before the City Council retreat early
next year.
Timeline, Resource Impact, Policy Implications
As mentioned in the Policy and Services Committee report, the survey is in the FY 2023 City
Council budget. The Fiscal Year 2022 Adopted Budget moved the survey to an every other year
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cycle as a cost saving measure as approved by the City Council. Fiscal Year 2023 is a survey year
and the survey would occur in fall 2022. The ad hoc committee work proposed here would
require staff time but can be done with existing resources.