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Committee: business public-safety survey stalled; members seek direction from city council
Summary
Members said a business‑focused public safety survey drafted by the committee stalled after submission to the city; they recommended asking city council at the upcoming joint meeting whether the committee should proceed or defer to the city’s citizen survey.
Members of the Public Safety Advisory Committee reviewed the status of a business public‑safety survey the committee drafted and submitted to city staff and council. Several committee members said the survey work stalled amid staff turnover and changes to the city’s communications dashboard, and that the city’s own citizen survey raised concerns about duplicate questions.
S6 summarized the path so far: “We submitted [the survey] to the city council … we really never got anything back,” and said the committee later rewrote questions at the request of the police chief before the effort paused. Multiple members recommended bringing the issue to the joint city‑council meeting for explicit direction on whether the council wants the committee to continue administering a business survey or to rely on the city’s own outreach.
Members also discussed whether the committee should form a small subcommittee to finalize questions or wait for the city’s survey results to avoid overlap. S5 said the committee received the city’s questions and responses and planned to reconcile them with the committee’s draft so the final recommendation would present complementary rather than duplicative questions.
No formal vote was taken; members agreed to raise the matter at the upcoming joint council meeting and to defer substantial committee action until they have clearer direction from council staff.
