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r?oveznrer 3 0 , 1 °i 7 '"o ° r?ec•~ Drightor? Park Roar~:~. From ° "?lurice N. Pndersor , ?'irector Fark a.nr': I;ecrea.tion Pe ° Comprehensive Par]; Flar.. As you are ac,~are the Council has authorize. a corlprehensive Fark stuc?y for 1980. I have hac' some preliminary discussion ~~ith three .firn.s; a plan?~ing firm?, a coz:~pany that specializes ir_ surveys and an ac~vertisincs agency. 7'he full service pla,2n- inn_ co_r!pary ha.s provi~ec? a prorosal for reviecz pur~~oses onlyi it should hota~ever serve as ar excellent focus .for discussion of the proj ect ~ The saarvey company I1as incAica.ted that they could ego a statistically valid public opinion survey for. ~, Q04-~5, QOC anl;~ the ac~verti.sing agency feels that an ex- pensive survey i~ a waste of ti?~.e . I have k~riefly c;zscussed this matter ~:;~ith the City r`anager and one of trse ap~tions discussed c,-as the c?epartr.?ent acting as the coorc?inatinct agent ra.tl~er tl~ar_ buying a pacl~C~ge froze. a. consulting f_irr~. This option ha_s the advantage of keincr less expensive and/o:~ provic'ing rlcr_e information for the collars availak le, howe~~er, it is rather ti;f~e consuming az•:c? given our present staffing situatian, this oz~tioza is not as attractive as It (nTOL21Ca norl±la.lly k:~e. I c~~ould suc~ges~ a schedule siz^.ilar to the folloc,~ing receznl~,er January Fek~ruary-Apr.: r ~ a.y 1 Determine scope a.nc_1 Irterviec~T anc? Dire Conduct stu~a~,T Deceive resul-~s Gf zr~etlioc~ of study firm(s) ctu~~y I realize that this is a rather as-:~.k~itious schedule, ho~r~ever this is the `"off season" for soT7e consulting firris and it woulc_1 also I~~e ac~.vantageous to have the study coraplete~: k?y late spring so elements of it could I::e incluc~eci ire the final c?raft cf the City's Coznpreher..sive Plan .