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Council questions Burgess and Burgess communications contract and whether residents were surveyed
Summary
Council members disputed whether Burgess and Burgess was conducting a resident survey under a $48,000 contract; the mayor said the firm is doing internal depth interviews and that an opt-in resident survey was mutually abandoned because of the election year.
Council members at a special Committee of the Whole meeting on April 2 pressed the mayor and the law director for details about a communications contract with Burgess and Burgess and whether the firm had contacted residents as part of a survey.
The mayor said the city entered a contract with Burgess and Burgess last year to support internal and external communications for the Department of Community Services and that “we are not doing a survey. We are doing depth interviews” with internal staff and select stakeholders. He said an opt-in…
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