Councillors Prefer Fake Surveys to Real Resident Concerns
- verityinyarraville
- Nov 20, 2019
- 1 min read
The agenda of the MCC council meeting for 19 November included the ‘official’ community survey results that gave the Council a glowing residents satisfaction rating of 6.9 out of 10.
Local ratepayers commenting in our social media group were astounded and outright disgusted by the ‘official’ result.
So I emailed Councillors to ask the ‘official’ surveys be discontinued, because they ask irrelevant questions and cost too much.
Several Councillors stood up at the meeting to state how professional the survey was, that market research is a very complicated area and that it would cost far more, for Council to conduct the survey itself.
In other words, Council is right and residents are wrong and no discussion will be entered into. Again.
The disconnect between the MCC Council and local residents is alarming. Despite a rating of 6.9 out of 10, many residents expressed disbelief about the survey's legitimacy. This raises questions about the value of their investment in these surveys when they seem unresponsive to community feedback. The discussion around the use of Pay ID https://lionandwolf.co/ could further illustrate transparency issues if not handled cautiously.
The disconnect between the Council's perception of the survey's effectiveness and residents' outrage is troubling. It raises questions about the validity of these ‘official’ ratings and their alignment with community sentiment. The reliance on such methods, akin to Royal Reels in their detachment from reality, does little for genuine engagement. If the Council remains unresponsive, true dialogue may never occur.
It’s interesting to see how the council's perception of resident satisfaction diverges sharply from actual feedback. The insistence on the validity of the survey suggests a disconnect between officials and constituents. In discussions about funding and priorities, one wonders if the allocation towards The Pokies and similar enterprises might be overshadowing genuine community needs and insights.