The Framingham’s First Year Survey is up to 353 respondents which is 70% to our
goal.
The survey isn’t scientific but is comprehensive. It is imperfect. That said NO
personal info is required. We collect no names, email addresses, addresses, or
anything other than opinions.
The survey is now broken up into parts so you can choose if you want to rate
the mayor, the COO, the police, the police chief, the DPW and the DPW head, the
school system and its superintendent, the at large city council, an your
individual city counselor. You will also be able to send personal anonymous
notes to leaders in our government, and nobody but the survey administrator and
the person the note is to, will ever see it.
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Who are we?
Citizen created survey and a couple people to verify the data as it is released
to ensure no skewing of data.
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What will we ask in this survey?
You will give letter grades and answer questions on different people -
true/false and agree/disagree type. You will also be given the opportunity to
make an anonymous written statement which you can commend or criticize
individual which will go to them after the survey close date of 1/15/19.
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What will happen to the data collected?
It will be compiled and data relevant to specific people in the government will
be sent by mail to them directly with an average letter grade as determined by
you. The leaders will get all the anonymous comments as long as they are deemed
appropriate. Please use your anonymity wisely. Currently the mayor is slated to
get about 100 responses, some as long as 2 paragraphs. We will take a picture
of all the addresses envelopes as we mail them off and post it so you know it’s
done. We will release the compiled data shortly after the mailing on the
Facebook page “Framingham Forward” and cross post it here in the major
Framingham groups. Please note the anonymous notes will not be released. They
will only be seen by the people the notes are to, myself, and two people
verifying the data.
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Can I get the raw results?
By golly Yes you may. Send a PM to me and we will send you the raw data. It’s
clunky and a very hard to read excel spreadsheet but I will send it. It will
only be edited to remove the anonymous notes.
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Next years survey is already being worked on based on feedback from you all, it
will be available in English, Portuguese, and Spanish. It will be better
organized. It will be peer reviewed to ensure no bias. This years was pretty
much written on a 4 hour flight home after holiday.
This is 100% a tool that either will or will not be used by people in power.
Hard to say what will happen when leaders read their “report cards”, but it is
better to have data than no data.