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Keizer staff outline plan for 2,000-sample resident survey; council approval still pending
Summary
City staff told the committee they plan to contract a professional vendor to conduct a resident survey with a statistically representative sample of about 2,000 randomly selected residents, plus an open link; the contract and any local question additions must be approved by city council.
City staff told the Keizer Community Diversity and Engagement Committee they are preparing a contract with a professional survey vendor that serves more than 500 cities and expects to collect responses from roughly 2,000 randomly selected residents as the statistically representative sample.
The presenter said questions 1 through 12 in the vendor’s instrument are standard and used for cross-city comparison, and that questions 13–16 are locally added items created by the city’s executive leadership team and remain open for committee review. Staff explained they plan to barcode or uniquely identify the 2,000 mailed/selected surveys to avoid duplicate responses and then open a separate public link whose responses will be reported separately.
A tentative timeline discussed placed the survey vendor work and launch in the February–March window, but staff cautioned the contract and question set have not yet gone to city council; a final schedule could shift based on council action. Staff asked committee members to review the proposed local questions and return feedback by the next meeting.
Next steps: staff will bring the proposed contract, final question set and timeline to city council for approval; committee members will review questions 13–16 and provide suggested additions or edits.
