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San Marcos City staff present outreach results; council members question representativeness of survey responses
Summary
City staff described outreach methods and online survey responses for the strategic plan and supplemental budget input. Council members said responses were concentrated on the West Side, urged more East Side engagement and asked for geospatial detail on the survey sample.
San Marcos City staff presented results from recent community outreach — including an online survey and in-person "dream sessions" — and council members raised concerns that the responses are not representative of the whole city, pointing to a concentration of replies on the West Side and sparse participation on the East Side.
City staff said the materials are intended as feedback from the outreach methods used, not as statistically generalizable results. A staff member said, "not saying that it's generalizable, not saying that it's attributed to the entire community, but it's another tool of information that we can give y'all to know that with the methods that we have undertaken, this is what we've heard from those particular things." The staff…
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