And some of it isn’t good, some categories dropping almost 10+ points in 2 years. They will do a presentation today at 4 PM, and here is a link to the document.
UPDATE: Here is the entire survey. You will see that they did not include any citizen comments on the survey, they have in the past. This tells me, there probably wasn’t too many positive comments. They also went the BIGOTRY route by filtering out Hispanics on the race question. Not sure why they did that because we have several immigrant communities in Sioux Falls. Weird.
I will do a deeper dive tonight after the presentation but there were a few stats I wanted to point out.
It seems the council is hestitant to fund childcare services or transient management but the citizens seem to be ok with it;
• 80% support funding for transient issues and housing
• 70% support funding for childcare
• 70% support funding for airport
Where the survey takes a bad turn is government services and transparency, many failing grades, but this one surprised me;
I’m sure there will be more details at the meeting today, but it will be interesting to see how the council addresses the transparency issues. I was surprised by these stats because I have been telling folks for 20 years the lack of transparency in city government and how bad it has gotten over the past 12 years but just figured no one notices because when you don’t inform people they tend to not be involved or care. If only 50% trust the government in Sioux Falls, yah got problems.