05-08-2019, 09:20 AM
You can’t just change a pilot project halfway through and expect the conclusions to be valid. The changes weren’t even communicated, let alone consultations undertaken.
Where are the terms of reference for the pilot anyway?
I also don’t appreciate the fact that staff say public engagement results showed “a strong desire…for the City to undertake maintenance of sidewalks,” and then immediately note that their surveys are not a “statistically representative sample of the Community” and not bringing that strong desire up again.
I can’t argue that they are statistically valid, of course, but why did they do them if they were going to ignore the results? I wish they had told me that the results of those surveys would be hand-wavingly discounted, so that I could have avoided wasting my time doing them.
Where are the terms of reference for the pilot anyway?
I also don’t appreciate the fact that staff say public engagement results showed “a strong desire…for the City to undertake maintenance of sidewalks,” and then immediately note that their surveys are not a “statistically representative sample of the Community” and not bringing that strong desire up again.
I can’t argue that they are statistically valid, of course, but why did they do them if they were going to ignore the results? I wish they had told me that the results of those surveys would be hand-wavingly discounted, so that I could have avoided wasting my time doing them.