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Respondents were selected in two different ways. The initial selection was based upon <br />membership in the Minnesota Recreation and Pazk Association. The organizatioc was <br />founded in 1937 and has a roster of nearly four hundred individual members and <br />representing sixty nine organizations responsible for management of recreational <br />facilities. Communities in all major areas of the state are represented and the organization <br />even overlaps into some neighboring states. <br />This did not give us an adequate population to survey, so the list was expanded by the <br />communities listed in the League of Cities directory for the four neighboring states of <br />Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. The appropriate person to contact <br />was selected from those officials listed in the Directory of City Policy Officials. Both <br />J documents are available from the Hennepin County Southdale Library. A total of one <br />hundred forty five communities were selected. Two surveys were returned because the <br />person addressed had left. The selected cities had populations greater than ten thousand, <br />except in a few cases. <br />,, <br />,~ <br />6 <br />