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Committee hears social-media poll favoring two-year terms; panel to expand outreach
Summary
Mark Douglas presented informal Facebook poll results showing preference for two-year terms over three-year terms; the committee cautioned the poll is not scientific and agreed to broaden outreach and post redlines to the discussion board ahead of the next meeting.
Mark Douglas, the committee’s community-input liaison, shared informal results from a Facebook message board poll the committee used to gauge public sentiment on term lengths and whether to include term limits or an ethics board in the charter. Douglas said the online group numbers about 10,000 members and that the first poll (two-year vs. three-year term length) had been posted for roughly two weeks.
Douglas cautioned the results are not scientific but said the two-year option polled ahead of three years. Members discussed poll limitations—reach metrics, lack of anonymity, and potential amplification by a small number of active users—and noted the poll was intended to stimulate discussion and solicit further written feedback via email or the committee’s message board.
Chair Linda and others asked Douglas to include reach data (how many saw the posts) and to post additional short polls about the city website and charter familiarity. The committee agreed to use the discussion board for circulating redline text and to solicit broader community input before the next meeting.
