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100 Leigh Anne King: Leaving it open is an option. The one thing I would caution you about with respect to that 101 is I would recommend that if you're going to be asking the public to take a survey, you want to use the data. 102 And we can't continuously be changing the report. So, I think that's one of the challenges of doing it that way. 103 104 Beth Bronson: Absolutely. I mean, I agree 100 percent with you in respect to that and I understand the 105 design of using the data set to move forward to second and third. I guess that makes sense and if County had 106 a section of, “here, you want to answer these questions separate from this and move those questions to a 107 different location,” I could understand that. 108 109 Leigh Anne King: And there's also an opportunity to reach out and provide comment at any point and time 110 through the website. But I think we can kind of take into account what you're concerned about. Should there 111 always be a place for someone to kind of express their interest or concerns? 112 113 Beth Bronson: Yeah you would want to state you're not using that anymore but these responses could be 114 used by the County at a later date. I think it would be valuable data for the County in a way. 115 116 Cy Stober: If I may interject – This is a constant struggle for planners when we do plans of any scale, 117 small area plans, corridor plans, neighborhood block plans, or a county-wide comprehensive land use plan, is 118 you have to close the survey if you're going to use it. And this is a critical part of informing the values that will 119 inform the model and work that we're going to do in the next steps of the project. And so, we do have to close 120 the survey and we certainly don't want to mislead the public that if they participate, that input will then be used. 121 Because we can't use it at this point. We will be doing other outreach and engagement; I believe that will 122 probably include some other survey work. And there will, of course, always be opportunities, Tom has set up a 123 good email address for people to get in touch about this planning effort. And we're working closely with 124 community relations staff as well to use social media and get the word out and get feedback through those 125 avenues, too. So, I completely hear you, Ms. Bronson. We'd love to be able to somehow in real time just have 126 a constant feed into the models and have them adjust accordingly, but it's not possible and we have to make 127 the hard decision on when to close the window. 128 129 Beth Bronson: And I would agree with that. I wouldn't want there to be like an open survey that didn't 130 count or anything like that that may even keep somebody from filling out the survey you do want data on. I 131 don't think you would want to change anything based on that. But if there is a way, yeah, to have those 132 responses kind of in a repository. That's great. 133 134 Liz Kalies: I don't have any questions. But also thank you. It was really thorough and really thought 135 provoking so really nice work. Appreciate it. 136 137 Delores Bailey: The number of people that answered the survey was only 604? 138 139 Leigh Anne King: For the Strategic Plan Survey. For a statistically significant survey for Orange County 140 based on your population, it was supposed to be 580 responses or something like that that I read in the report. 141 So, they actually exceeded the number to meet that statistically significant threshold. I know it's, for the non-142 statisticians like myself, it's always hard to think that that many people can be representative of a body that's 143 way larger than that. But what they do is they look at, they do a random sampling and they also go through 144 and check for all of the socio-demographics to make sure that those are representative of the larger 145 community as well. The community engagement we conducted is self-selected. So, we do look at how 146 representative it is of the community. But it is not statistically significant because those folks chose to 147 participate, they're not randomly sampled. 148 149 8