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Vision 2050: Consultant presents public survey tool and finds housing, childcare and education near top of residents’ priorities
Summary
Consultant Roger Mater told the council an interactive GroupSolver engagement collected over 1,000 responses and found affordable housing, youth and childcare, and education funding prominent among resident priorities; staff will distribute the dataset to departments to inform strategic planning.
Roger Mater, the mayor’s consultant on Vision 2050, presented an overview of the public engagement platform the city used to solicit ideas about Rochester’s long-term priorities. The consultant said the initiative received 1,004 respondents overall and that an interactive GroupSolver tool clustered open-ended responses into themes and produced top-20 recommendations for each category.
Mater described the methodology: respondents could reply via mobile chat-style prompts, QR codes, paper submissions that were ported into the system, or…
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