50 Questions: Brentwood Phone Survey to Come in April

The City of Brentwood recently announced that randomly selected Brentwood households will be asked to participate in a city survey in April.

City administrator Bola Akande told Patch that the Brentwood Community Center is the focus, and there will also be questions on city facilities and services.

The Public Works Committee approved a $9 million bond issue to pay for a renovated Brentwood Recreation Complex in 2011, but the initiative stalled out in city hall.

Last August the Public Works Committee agreed to poll residents on the Recreation Center, and interviewed firms for the job later in the year.

Akande said the survey's cost to the city is $11,800. She said there are around 50 questions and the average time to answer the survey is 10-12 minutes.

The announcement was released on Friday.

Elected officials are seeking guidance from Brentwood Residents on important issues facing the community. In order to gather resident input, the Brentwood Board of Aldermen recently contracted with The Warren Poll, a professional survey firm, to conduct a resident survey.

A random sample of Brentwood adult residents (age 18 years and older) will be contacted via telephone, the first two weeks of April (1-15th) and will be asked to share their opinion.

Mayor Pat Kelly is encouraging residents to participate because your feedback will be used to help the Board of Aldermen make decisions for community planning and resource allocation, program improvement, policy evaluation and policy making.

Keith Robertson, Chair of the Brentwood Public Works Committee, assures residents that “your responses will remain completely anonymous.”

For questions about the 2013 Brentwood Resident Survey, contact Bola Akande, City Clerk/Administrator at 314-962-4800 or email her at bakande@brentwoodmo.org or Dr. Kenneth Warren, The Warren Poll, at 314-977-3036 or email him at warrenkf@slu.edu.

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• Brentwood Public Works: One More Rec Center Survey on the Way
• Brentwood Public Works Considers Moving City Hall to Rec Center; Watch for New Survey
• Brentwood Rec Complex Discussion Planned for Monday Meeting