Sunnyvale committee presents results of 302-response community survey; staff flags data limits

The Sunnyvale Charter Review Committee on Oct. 23 received a summary of a community survey that drew 302 responses, which staff described as roughly 15 hours of public input.

Connie Bersellas, deputy city manager, told the committee the survey produced “over 300 responses, 302, to be exact,” but she warned that staff provided only a summary because their platform is "very, very clunky" and retrieving full verbatim responses would have required heavy staff time. Bersellas also said a question about whether respondents were registered to vote was accidentally left off the Sunnyvale results and apologized for the error.

The presentation gave committee members and members of the public a high-level snapshot of attitudes on topics including…