CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM
Memo Date: February 11, 2020
Agenda Date: February 26, 2020
Prepared By: John A. Titkanich, Jr., AICP, ICMA-CM
Through: N/A
Requested Action:
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Approve a multi-year agreement with Policy Confluence, Inc. (DBA National Research Center, Inc.) to conduct a community survey; approve a Resolution approving the vendor as a single-source provider; approve a Resolution amending the FY2020 Budget (BAF#20-042-T) and authorize the City Manager to finalize and execute the Enterprise Services Agreement.
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BACKGROUND:
The City of Cocoa is updating its Strategic Plan and central to doing so is understanding resident opinions on quality of life in the City, levels of satisfaction on the City and the municipal services provided, rating the City on matters such as safety, various characteristics of the community, government performance, and citizen engagement.
The National Research Center/Polco partners with the International City/County Management Association in addition to many other local government organizations and maintains a proprietary database of over 600 jurisdiction's survey data against which they can provide a comparison of survey of the City of Cocoa's survey results. They are currently conducting or have recently conducted community surveys for more than twenty Florida communities. Given the maintain of a proprietary database of survey results from other communities it will offer City Council, staff and the public a unique perspective.
The community survey is scientifically conducted and will enable that a representative sample of the community is surveyed. They also can geocode addresses within our City to produce sub-sample groups corresponding with City Council District boundaries. They are proposing a sample size of 1,700 households (approximately 425 per Council District) thus ensures the best representation of the community. In addition to the traditional survey they will, hosting on Polco's website, the abi...
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