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National Civic League: local survey finds widespread dissatisfaction, but sample not scientific
Summary
A National Civic League representative told the Mount Vernon Charter Review Commission that a community survey and forums showed complaints about transparency and city performance but that the results were not a random, scientific sample and were concentrated in one ZIP code.
Doug Linkhart of the National Civic League told the Mount Vernon Charter Review Commission on June 4 that a community outreach effort produced hundreds of responses but is not a scientific sample.
Linkhart said the League distributed roughly 470 surveys and received about 314 responses. "This is not a random sample, and it's not scientific," he told the commission, noting that most respondents came from a single ZIP code, 10552. The written report and the commission packet contain the full survey results.
Why it matters: the League’s outreach informed the commission’s debate over whether to place charter…
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