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Consultant pitches paid resident panel to give statistically valid community input; council asks about cost and cadence
Summary
Kevin Lyons of FlashHub demonstrated a paid resident-panel service that aims to produce statistically valid, district-level survey results quickly; council members asked about costs (approx. $9,900/year was cited for a typical small-city plan), sample sizes, response rates and the number of surveys allowed under typical contracts.
Kevin Lyons, who identified himself as cofounder of FlashHub, presented a tool the company sells to create scientific panels of local residents for rapid, statistically valid public input.
Lyons described the problem the product is designed to solve: traditional meeting attendance and online comments are self-selected and often unrepresentative. He said FlashHub recruits a local panel and can, in short time, provide results that better reflect the broader community than the small,…
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