City of Flagstaff Parks and Recreation Master Plan Citizens Survey Summary

As part of outreach conducted for this plan, an in-person and on-line, survey was conducted. The purpose of the survey was to explore visitor and resident's views about parks and recreation services, facilities, fees and funding.

The in-person survey was conducted by students from NAU from December 3 through 5, 2010. An identical survey was released on line December 20, 2010 available through January 15, 2010. The in-person survey locations included two Bashas' Supermarkets located on South Woodlands Village Boulevard and Humphreys Street, the East Flagstaff and City of Flagstaff Main libraries and around Heritage Square.

A total of 461 surveys were received. In-person surveys constituted 35% (161) of all surveys received. If just in- person surveys were used, they would be 95% accurate with a confidence interval of +/- 8%. Because there were concerns that the internet survey could be widely distributed among well-organized interest groups and consequently over-represent them, the in-person surveys were initially analyzed separately to obtain a random sample of residents opinions. Because in most instances, the in-person surveys differed from the on-line survey responses by less than 1 %,the responses from all surveys are described here. In those cases where the differences are greater than 5 % the differences between the in-person and on-line surveys are noted.