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®CITY OF SOUTH BEND ( OFFICE OF THE CLERK Community Survey Report- Emmanuel Cannady,University of Notre Dame Emmanuel Cannady, 322 E. Colfax Avenue, stated, I am a Notre Dame partner as I am a graduate student of Sociology. I am the primary investigator of this project so that means I am in charge of the methodology, the sampling, looking at the results and writing up the report. I want to go over three (3)things quickly then will turn it over to the folks in the room that do the data collection so they can tell you what their experience is about. Our method of gathering data, as Coucilmember Williams-Preston had said, was participatory mapping. So we asked neighbors what their neighborhood looked like. Through the conjunction of the 1000 houses in 1000 days initiative and when those conversations were happening, these were the neighborhoods (referencing a picture displayed which is available in the City Clerk's Office)that were the impact areas. There are four (4) neighborhoods we are working on with this project, going from North to South we have affectionately labeled them One (1)through(4). Mr. Cannady continued, As of this afternoon, I just checked, we are expecting to have 1,200 competed surveys. That means three hundred (300) in each of the areas and, as of this afternoon, I saw we had three hundred and eight (308) completed surveys. A majority of them are Area One (1) so Area One (1) is almost done and we started on Area Four (4) so we are really moving right along with the project. In terms of the method and how we decided to go door-to-door, we had a lot of conversations about that. We pondered doing online surveys,through email,through phone, but what the research constantly has showed is that face-to-face interviews tend to be the best because of trust. We have neighbors going to other neighbor's doors and that increases trust and a neighbor would be more willing to participate. We projected that sixty-six percent(66%) of doors we knock on would participate. We sampled four hundred and fifty(450) homes in each area with a target of three hundred (300) and we are outpacing that extraordinarily. People want to be a part of this survey. Mr. Cannady went on,We are using Amazon Fire Tablets to record this survey. The residents input the data and that automatically gets uploaded to a cloud that I have access to. If people want to participate in the survey but they are not home or busy, each of the data collectors put a door tag on the neighbor's door which has a number they can call in to. They all get the number and leave a message and that message is transcribed and emailed to us. We then get that out to the data collectors. Stacy Odom, 212 S. Iowa Street, stated, I've been out taking surveys and it has been great. All the people are so excited about being surveyed. Even people who feel they have been left out or left behind, they feel the City of South Bend is trying their best to bring them up to par with the rest of the City. Many people have solutions for their own neighborhood, which I think is excellent. When we surveyed on the North side, one (1) of the things most mentioned was about the vacant lots.The kids are playing in the streets in some of these neighborhoods and residents want to know if the vacant lots could turn into a basketball court, swings and other things. Each neighborhood has a remedy to their own problems and we can really assist them. Councilmember Tim Scott asked, Are you hitting every house or are you just picking houses in a designated area? Mr. Cannady replied, The sampling procedure came from looking at a spreadsheet with all the zonings of the properties in those areas. We are looking at SF-1, SF-2, apartments and such. There EXCELLENCE I ACCOUNTABILITY I INNOVATION I INCLUSION I EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 1 227 W.Jefferson Bvld I South Bend,Indiana 46601 I p 574.235.9221 If 574.235.9173 1 TD 574.235.5567 I www.southbendin.gov 2