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County advances $67,000 community survey option for sheriff’s office and jail; board to form CJCC subcommittee
Summary
The University of Iowa Center for Social Science Innovation proposed a mail survey and focus-group program to gauge community perspectives about a joint sheriff’s office and jail, offering a $67,000 option that includes both components and a $53,000 mail-only alternative.
The University of Iowa Center for Social Science Innovation (CSSI) presented a revised proposal to Johnson County supervisors on March 12 for a community perspectives project about the county’s proposed sheriff’s office and jail project.
Ethan, a CSSI researcher, said the firm trimmed its original proposal to meet budget constraints while retaining both a mailed survey and targeted focus groups. “The new budget is down to that 67 that is both with the the mail survey and the focus groups. If we just did the mail survey, it would be 53,” Ethan said. CSSI detailed methodological changes intended to control costs while preserving response quality: embedding a QR code in mailed packets to allow a text-push-to-web response,…
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