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Show Survey Conclusions Told In its final presentation to the Park City community, the National Training and Development Service (NTDS) used a technique called "brainstorming" to encourage encour-age more active citizen participation par-ticipation in town affairs. About 120 people, 35 of them NTDS staffers, attended at-tended the special community commun-ity meeting held in the Memorial Building Thursday, Thurs-day, August 22. After hearing the results of several NTDS polls, residents resi-dents broke up into smaller groups to discuss specific problems in town. Mayor Price announced at the end of the meeting that these groups would continue to meet and would eventually make thier conclusions known to the city government. govern-ment. The six citizen groups are: medical facilities, meeting under Richard Martinez, the schools, under Mary Leh-mer, Leh-mer, planning and development, develop-ment, under Jan Wilking,the elderly, under Clem Hansen, recreation, under Leon Uri-arte, Uri-arte, and public services, under John Price. Anyone wishing to join a committee should contact the council member in charge. Mayor Price announced his group would meet Thursday evening even-ing at 7 in City Hall. The NTDS is made up of members of state and local governments who study town governments under grants from the Ford Foundation and the Intergovernmental Personnel Act. The group did several surveys sur-veys during its month in Park City. They first interviewed 228 residents to find out what they liked and disliked about the town. Thirty 'influential citizens citi-zens identified by this first poll were then asked about 26 major problem areas. The same questions were finally asked of a random sample of residents. The NTDS said they found some significant disparities between the relative importance impor-tance given these questions by the men in the street and the influentials. For instance, influentials ranked problems in the City Council as the most important impor-tant town issue, while the random sample ranked it seventeenth. The condition of the streets, the primary issue for the random sample, was ranked seventh by the influe-entials, influe-entials, while the town's lack of a full time medical service ser-vice was ranked second by' the men in the street and eighth by the influentials. After presenting the results re-sults of its surveys, NTDS (Continued on Page Three) the conclusion of the practice prac-tice brainstorming session. Mayor Price said later that because of what he learned from the survey, he would try to change the way City Council meetings are run. He said he would try to publicize meetings better, possibly by publishing agendas agen-das in town newspapers. He also wants to allow each council member to speak twice on each issue, under a set time limit. Price said this format would encourage en-courage some taciturn coun-cilmen coun-cilmen to make their thoughts known, while per-. per-. haps quieting some of the more loquacious members. Finally, Price said the Council will hold a special meeting once a month at which citizens will be allowed al-lowed to speak with being on the agenda. Under Robert's Rules of Order, the Mayor can permit per-mit comments from spectators specta-tors at his discititiuii. However, undr tin, sent format "a lot of people feel they are unjustly ruled out of order," Price said. He added that under the proposed pro-posed system spectators would know they had a fair chance to speak. Price said other changes in the way the town is run might arise out of the six ad hoc citizen's committees set up under the N'TDS's guidance. Findings (Continued from Page One) staffers led the meeting through a 'brainstorming" session on how to achieve better citizen participation in town affairs. Basically, brainstorming is a technique developed for decision making by industrial indus-trial managers. After apro-blem apro-blem is formulated in terms of a "how to" statement, members of the group rattle off as quickly as possible solutions they think of. All proposals, no matter how far-fetched, are accepted and recorded. Only later are they critically analysed for feasibility. Several "action options" are selected from this list of proposals; when one action ac-tion has been singled out, the group decides on concrete con-crete steps to carry it through. NTDS staffers encouraged townspeople to be open and honest in their comments, to actively listen to what was said, to deal with here-and-now issues, and to keep no feelings or thoughts back that would detract from their participation in the meeting The meeting broke up into the six smaller groups at |