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City of Laramie Survey, 2008 Final Report to the City of Laramie WYSAC Technical Report No. SRC-901 February, 2009 ---PAGE BREAK--- WYSAC, University of Wyoming City of Laramie Survey, 2008 2 City of Laramie Survey, 2008 By Thomas Furgeson, M.A., Associate Research Scientist Trent Holder, Assistant Research Scientist Bistra Anatchkova, Ph.D., Survey Research Center Manager With the assistance of Brianne Wold, Research Aide Kyle Gruver, Research Aide Wyoming Survey & Analysis Center University of Wyoming 710 Garfield • Suite 320 Laramie, WY 82070 (307) 742-2223 • [EMAIL REDACTED] www.uwyo.edu/wysac Under contract to: City of Laramie Citation for this document: WYSAC (2009). City of Laramie Survey, 2008, by Furgeson, Holder, W. & Anatchkova, B. (WYSAC Technical Report No. SRC-901). Laramie: Wyoming Survey & Analysis Center, University of Wyoming. Short reference: WYSAC (2009), City of Laramie Survey, 2008. © Wyoming Survey & Analysis Center, 2009. ---PAGE BREAK--- WYSAC, University of Wyoming City of Laramie Survey, 2008 3 Table of Contents 1. Executive Summary 6 2. Introduction 8 2.1. Background 8 2.2. Organization of this Report 8 3. Methods 9 3.1. Survey Design and Administration 9 3.1.1. Questionnaire Development 9 3.1.2. Sampling Frame and Design 9 3.1.3. Survey Administration 9 3.2. Response Rates and Margins of Error 9 3.3. Data Compilation and Analysis 10 4. Demographics 10 5. Discussion of Survey Results 12 5.1. Quality of City Services 12 5.1.1. Summary of results for Quality of City Services 19 5.2. Interaction with City Employees 21 5.3. Perceptions of City Problems and Personal Safety 24 5.4. Citizen Opinions of City Government and City Service Fees 26 5.5. Information Sources used by City of Laramie Residents for City Government Activities 29 5.6. Current Issues facing City Government 30 5.7. City of Laramie Residents’ Priorities for City Funds Allocation 32 6. Cross-tabulations 34 6.1. Cross-tabulations by Housing 34 6.2. Cross-tabulations by Residence Location 35 6.3. Cross-tabulations by Employment Status 36 6.4. Cross-tabulations by Length of Residence 38 6.5. Cross-tabulations by Age 39 Appendix A. Frequency Distributions 41 Appendix B. Responses to Open-ended Questions and Volunteered Comments 75 Appendix B.1. Open-ended responses to Question 9. 75 Appendix B.2. Open-ended responses to Question 17. 76 Appendix B.3. Volunteered responses. 92 Appendix C. Survey Instrument 97 Appendix D. Laramie Areas Map 101 ---PAGE BREAK--- WYSAC, University of Wyoming City of Laramie Survey, 2008 4 List of Tables Table 6.1.1. Cross-tabulations by Housing status. (Q1 – Q12) 34 Table 6.2.1. Cross-tabulations by Residence location. (Q1 – Q12) 35 Table 6.3.1. Full-time employed vs. all other employment categories (Q1 – Q12) 36 Table 6.3.2. Students vs. all other employment categories (Q1 – Q12) 37 Table 6.3.3. Retired vs. all other employment categories (Q1 – Q12) 37 Table 6.4.1. Cross-tabulations by Length of Laramie residence. (Q1 – Q9) 38 Table 6.5.1. Cross-tabulations by Age. (Q1 – Q6) 39 Table 6.5.2. Cross-tabulations by Age. (Q9 – Q12) 40 List of Figures Figure 4.1. Distribution of respondents by area. 11 Figure 5.1.1. Fire fighting. 12 Figure 5.1.2. Fire prevention. 12 Figure 5.1.3. Ambulance services. 13 Figure 5.1.4. Disaster preparedness. 13 Figure 5.1.5. Enforcement of traffic laws. 13 Figure 5.1.6. Crime prevention. 13 Figure 5.1.7. Garbage collection. 14 Figure 5.1.8. Landfill (dump) services. 14 Figure 5.1.9. Street maintenance and repair. 14 Figure 5.1.10. Street cleaning. 14 Figure 5.1.11. Snow removal (major streets only). 15 Figure 5.1.12. Storm drainage. 15 Figure 5.1.13. Sewer 15 Figure 5.1.14. Water 15 Figure 5.1.15. Reliability of water flow. 16 Figure 5.1.16. Park appearance and maintenance. 16 Figure 5.1.17. Recreation programs. 16 Figure 5.1.18. Land use, planning and zoning. 16 Figure 5.1.19. Code enforcement (weeds, junk, etc.). 17 Figure 5.1.20. Animal control. 17 Figure 5.1.21. Disabled access (city facilities, parks, etc.). 17 Figure 5.1.22. Disabled access (public streets, sidewalks, etc.). 17 Figure 5.1.23. Building permit 18 Figure 5.1.1.1. City services ranked by responses of excellent or good. 19 Figure 5.1.1.2. City services ranked by responses of not so good or poor. 20 Figure 5.2.1. City departments of most recent interaction 21 Figure 5.2.2. City departments rated on knowledge 22 Figure 5.2.3. City departments rated on responsiveness 22 Figure 5.2.4. City departments rated on courtesy 23 Figure 5.2.5. City departments rated on overall impression 23 Figure 5.3.1. Issues/topics perceived as major problems by Laramie citizens. 24 Figure 5.3.2. Times when and locations where Laramie citizens feel very safe or somewhat safe. 25 Figure 5.4.1. City welcomes citizen involvement and encourages citizen participation. 26 Figure 5.4.2. Understand how taxes spent on City services, operations, and capital projects. 27 Figure 5.4.3. Fee for City water service is reasonable. 27 Figure 5.4.4. Fee for sewage collection and treatment is reasonable. 28 Figure 5.4.5. Fee for garbage collection and disposal is reasonable. 28 Figure 5.5.1. Citizens’ sources of information on City of Laramie government activities. 29 ---PAGE BREAK--- WYSAC, University of Wyoming City of Laramie Survey, 2008 5 Figure 5.6.1. Preference for Clark street viaduct options. 30 Figure 5.6.2. Retain Clark Street viaduct at City expense. 30 Figure 5.6.3. Public bus system is high priority 31 Figure 5.6.4. Probable use public bus system 31 Figure 5.6.5. Average days per week of probable use public bus system 31 Figure 5.7.1. Citizen priorities for City funds allocation (high priority). 32 Figure 5.7.2. Citizen priorities for fund allocation, if funding available (high priority). Comparison of 2006 to 2008. 33 ---PAGE BREAK--- WYSAC, University of Wyoming City of Laramie Survey, 2008 6 City of Laramie Survey, 2008 1. Executive Summary In late 2008 the City of Laramie enlisted the Wyoming Survey & Analysis Center (WYSAC) to conduct the second iteration of the City of Laramie Survey. This mail survey was first conducted in 2006, and the Survey Research Center (SRC) of WYSAC fielded the current iteration of the survey during the final months of 2008, with data collection concluding in early January 2009. The purpose of this community survey is to assess levels of citizen satisfaction with services provided by the City, as well as to gather citizen perceptions, preferences, and attitudes about various issues relevant to the City of Laramie. Due to the iterative nature of this survey, it is possible to view changes between 2006 and 2008 regarding citizen satisfaction and levels of agreement for a number of items of interest to the City. The total number of completed surveys received for the 2008 iteration of the survey was 816, yielding a margin of error of about plus or minus 3.5 percentage points at a 95% confidence level. Findings of note are below. • Of 23 City of Laramie services rated for quality by Laramie citizens, 21 received overall ratings of average or above average in 2008. This a general improvement over 2006, when 19 of 23 items were so rated. For both survey years, thirteen of these items had overall ratings of good or excellent. • In 2008, the two City-provided services that citizens felt were below average are street maintenance and repair and code enforcement (weeds, junk, etc.), both of which were also below average in 2006. This is a general improvement over 2006, when four City services were rated below average. • Ratings of good or excellent for personnel from the City departments with which citizens most recently had some interaction, based on the performance criteria shown, were as follows: Knowledge Responsiveness Courtesy Overall impression • Fire (92%) • Fire (92%) • Fire (92%) • Fire (92%) • Police (77%) • Police (74%) • Police (79%) • Police (73%) • Public Works (69%) • Administration (70%) • Administration (78%) • Administration (68%) • Administration (69%) • Parks & Rec. (69%) • Public Works (73%) • Parks & Rec. (67%) • Parks & Rec. (63%) • Public Works (62%) • Parks & Rec. (70%) • Public Works (62%) • Community Dev. (41%) • Community Dev. (38%) • Community Dev. (65%) • Community Dev. (47%) • As in 2006, though in lower percentages for each item, Laramie citizens identified the following three items as the most serious problems (in descending order): parking availability around the UW campus, alcohol-related offenses, and illegal drug use. In a change from 2006, three items have equal weight in 2008 as the next most serious problem, and include: speeding and traffic violations, loud vehicles, and nuisances (rundown buildings, weeds, junk vehicles). • As in 2006, virtually all Laramie residents in 2008 stated that they feel safe in their neighborhoods, in City parks, and downtown, during the daytime; and in their own neighborhoods after dark. Most also feel safe in the other two situations described: downtown and in City parks after dark. There is no appreciable decline in perceptions of safety for any of these contexts, though there is substantial improvement over 2006 for all of the after dark items. • There was less agreement in 2008 than in 2006 that the City welcomes citizen involvement and encourages citizen participation. Also, compared to 2006, substantially fewer City residents in 2008 agree that they have a good understanding of how their taxes are spent on City services, operations, and capital projects. • A substantially lower percentage of residents in 2008 disagreed that the fee they pay for City water service is reasonable than did in 2006. The percentages of those who agreed with that statement remained fairly steady over both years. ---PAGE BREAK--- WYSAC, University of Wyoming City of Laramie Survey, 2008 7 • The levels of agreement and disagreement that the fee for sewage collection and treatment is reasonable remained essentially unchanged from 2006 to 2008, with a substantial majority perceiving it as reasonable stating neutrality or agreement) in both years. However, a lower percentage of residents agreed in 2008 than in 2006 that the fee for garbage collection and disposal services is reasonable, though clear majorities in both years did agree with this. • In 2008, as in 2006, the three most-used sources for information about City government activities were newspaper articles/advertisements, talking with friends and neighbors, and radio. Unlike 2006, however, a higher percentage of residents in 2008 chose newspaper legal notices over TV Channel 11 or television in general, both of which outranked legal notices in 2006. • Of two options offered for the Clark Street viaduct (based on the explicit assumption that the City assumes ownership of the viaduct), the one chosen over the other by a margin of approximately 3:2 was the Clark Street viaduct [should] be reconstructed by the City and opened only for LOCAL vehicular traffic. Many residents stated that they did not know or were unsure which option to choose, and comments on the viaduct issue figures prominently in open-ended responses (see report Appendix B.3). • Regarding the City retaining the viaduct at City expense, a clear majority of residents stated that this is not a priority or is a low priority for the City of Laramie. • A majority of residents agreed that establishing a public bus system is a high priority. The percentage of those who indicated that they would never use such a bus system was identical to the percentage of those who would use such a system one day a week or more (both 40%). Among those who would use a public bus system, a majority would use it with substantial frequency, at more often than two days per week. • When asked to identify priorities for fund allocation, assuming funds were available, Laramie citizens identified the following as their top five high-priority spending choices: maintaining infrastructure, preservation of water resources, street maintenance, fire protection and emergency medical services, and police protection. • The questionnaire invited residents to provide a written, open-ended response to the question, Are there any major improvements, projects, issues, or initiatives that you would like to see the City of Laramie focus on? These responses—as well as other volunteered, written responses—are contained in Appendix B. It is imperative that these comments be thoroughly examined and considered by City officials. The comments are very relevant to this project’s mission of capturing resident opinions and input, and allow elaboration on issues and topics covered by the survey. Additionally, these written responses often address issues and topics that are important to residents, but that the survey does not address. Topics that are addressed with some frequency include: • Infrastructure • Taxes • Clark Street viaduct • University • Animal control • Downtown • Ordinance/ code enforcement • Business • Vehicles • Traffic • Water • Public transportation ---PAGE BREAK--- WYSAC, University of Wyoming City of Laramie Survey, 2008 8 2. Introduction 2.1. Background In late 2008 the City of Laramie enlisted the Wyoming Survey & Analysis Center (WYSAC) of the University of Wyoming to conduct the second iteration of the City of Laramie Survey. This mail survey was first conducted in 2006. The Survey Research Center (SRC) of WYSAC fielded the current, 2008, iteration of this survey during the final months of 2008, and completed data collection in early January 2009. This survey is intended to assess levels of City of Laramie citizen satisfaction with several services provided by the City, as well as to collect citizen perceptions, preferences and attitudes about various issues relevant to the City of Laramie. The iterative nature of this survey makes it possible to view changes between 2006 and 2008 regarding citizen satisfaction and levels of agreement or disagreement for a number of items of interest to the City. 2.2. Organization of this Report Section 1 (Executive Summary) contains an executive summary of the City of Laramie Survey, 2008. This summary addresses the purpose and general scope of the project, and presents results of particular interest. Section 2 (Introduction) contains pertinent background information for the project along with a summary of the report organization. Section 3 (Methods) addresses questionnaire development, the survey sampling frame, the data collection process, response rates, and data analysis. Section 4 (Demographics) of this report contains demographic information for survey respondents. Section 5 (Discussion of Survey Results) displays the complete results from the survey with discussion of the findings. Section 6 (Cross-tabulations) provides tables for and commentary on cross-tabulations for relevant variables. Several background variables are cross-tabulated with other relevant variables from the questionnaire; those that merit attention and yield statistically significant differences are included. The report concludes with four appendices: Appendix A (Frequency Distributions) contains the comprehensive results from the City of Laramie Survey, 2008. Questions are presented in the order and with the phrasing used on the survey, and accompanying tables display raw frequency counts and valid percentage distributions for each survey item. When applicable the 2006 survey valid percentages are also included. Appendix B (Responses to Open-Ended Questions and Volunteered Comments) presents the responses provided by survey respondents to all open-ended survey questions, those questions that invite other responses, and all volunteered comments. Appendix C (Survey Instrument) contains the actual questionnaire used for this survey. Appendix D (Laramie Areas Map) contains the map of Laramie areas used in survey item 11. ---PAGE BREAK--- WYSAC, University of Wyoming City of Laramie Survey, 2008 9 3. Methods 3.1. Survey Design and Administration 3.1.1. Questionnaire Development The questionnaire used in this second, 2008, iteration of the City of Laramie Survey was based on the questionnaire developed and used in 2006. The ability to track change over time was of the essence. A few changes and additions were made to reflect issues that have since emerged as being of particular interest to the City. By design, the survey was intended to gauge levels of satisfaction with, and preferences regarding, City of Laramie services, as well as to gather opinions about other issues of importance to the citizens of Laramie. Accepted and approved by City of Laramie representatives in October 2008, the survey instrument was programmed into an Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) scannable format using Teleform software. 3.1.2. Sampling Frame and Design The sampling frame for the survey was all households within the City of Laramie based on the following zip codes: 82070, 82071, 82072, and 82073. A random probability sample of 1,700 addresses from these zip codes was purchased from Marketing Systems Group (Genesys), one of the leading national vendors specializing in the generation of scientific samples. There was no random selection of respondents within households; any adult household member who agreed to participate could complete the survey. 3.1.3. Survey Administration The SRC began the survey mailing sequence on October 27, 2008, when a pre-survey notice postcard was mailed to every household in the sample. This was followed a few days later by a mailing containing the survey questionnaire accompanied by a City of Laramie cover letter authored by the City Manager. Approximately two weeks later, on November 14, 2008, a reminder postcard was sent to households in the sample that had not yet responded, which encouraged them to complete and return the questionnaire. Finally, a replacement questionnaire, accompanied by a reminder letter authored by WYSAC, was sent to those households from which a completed survey had not yet been received. As surveys were returned to WYSAC, they were scanned using WYSAC’s high volume scanner, thus eliminating errors that may occur from manual data entry and minimizing overall data recording errors. At the same time, responses to open-ended questions were carefully hand-entered and subjected to minimal editing for spelling and grammar. 3.2. Response Rates and Margins of Error As mentioned above, the initial sample consisted of 1,700 addresses for households bearing City of Laramie zip codes. Of these, 109 were "returned to sender," leaving a total sample of 1,591 valid addresses. Survey data collection closed on January 5, 2009, by which date 816 completed questionnaires were returned, for a final response rate of 51%. A random sample of 816 yields a margin of error of about plus or minus 3.5 percentage points with 95% confidence. At these levels and within this margin of error, it is appropriate to state that the results presented in this report accurately reflect the opinions and preferences of all Laramie households and thus can be generalized to the population of Laramie residents. ---PAGE BREAK--- WYSAC, University of Wyoming City of Laramie Survey, 2008 10 3.3. Data Compilation and Analysis Once all questionnaires were scanned, the resulting database was compiled and cleaned, variables were recoded as necessary and appropriate, and frequencies were run on all database variables. All results were compiled and are presented in user-friendly tables and accompanied, in most cases, by graphic illustrations. Missing values such as Don’t know and No answer are excluded from the percentage calculations to yield valid responses. On Mark all that apply items, percentage totals may exceed 100%. Cross-tabulations by survey year were performed on all survey items that remained unchanged across survey iterations, in order to test for statistical significance of the differences observed. In all cases in which statistically significant differences were established (at the level of p < 0.05), these are indicated by notation in the respective tables in Appendix A. For 2008 data, cross-tabulations by background variables of interest were performed where applicable. Both the linear trend test and the overall Pearson chi-square test were used (as appropriate) to assess the statistical significance of differences observed. In every case where statistically significant differences were found (at the p < 0.01 level) the results were compiled in the cumulative tables that appear in Section 6 of this report. 4. Demographics Presented in this section is an overview of the results for the demographic items included in the 2008 survey. Demographic questions asked of residents provide checks of the validity of the sample obtained in the City of Laramie community survey. • In 2008, 88% of those responding to the survey stated that they live within the city limits of Laramie, compared to 98% in 2006. This is a result of some City zip codes also applying to addresses in Albany County, outside of city limits. The inclusion of those who live outside of the City limits is of value, as these individuals make use of and have opinions about City of Laramie services. • In 2008, 89% of those responding to the survey were homeowners, statistically identical to the 88% claiming homeownership in 2006. Renters represented 11% of the survey sample in 2006 and 9% in 2008. • Employment status was asked as a mark all that apply question, hence some overlap between categories a person may be both a student and employed part-time; many other combinations possible). Most of the respondents to the survey were full time employed, at 57%, similar to the 59% in 2006 who claimed to be employed full-time. Retirees follow, and account for 32% of 2008 respondents; then come the part-time employed at 10%. Students make up only 3% of survey respondents (not dissimilar to 2006, when 2% of survey respondents were students). ---PAGE BREAK--- WYSAC, University of Wyoming City of Laramie Survey, 2008 11 • Respondents were also asked to indicate, using areas delineated by City officials during questionnaire development in 2006, in which general area of Laramie they live (see Appendix D, Laramie Areas Map). As expected, the distribution of survey respondents by area generally corresponds to population densities for the various areas, with South (35%) and North the areas of greatest housing density, delivering the highest percentages of respondents. The Downtown/West side area had the lowest percentage, at around 4% (Figure 4.1). Figure 4.1. Distribution of respondents by area. • Around 65% of respondents in 2008 stated that they have been City residents for more than 20 years (up five percentage points since 2006). Just over 14% stated that they have lived in Laramie for 11 to 20 years. Respondents who have lived in Laramie for 10 or fewer years represent 21% of our sample. • Around half (52%) of Laramie citizens who responded to the survey were 45 to 64 years old, an increase of five percentage points from 2006 The next-highest represented age category was 65-74 years at 17%. • Around 26% of respondents hold at least a bachelor’s degree. Nearly 35% hold a graduate or professional degree, the highest percentage for this demographic. Identically to 2006, around 18% stated that they have some college but no degree, and 12% claim a high school diploma or equivalent. Those holding an Associate's or vocational/technical school degree increased three percentage points from 2006 to 2008 ---PAGE BREAK--- 5. D This 5.1. 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Around 22 Positive rating though sti int improvem Figure 5.1.18. 2 1.9% Negativ 2006 20 44 48.7% Negativ 2006 20 C om 2006 to 2 igure 5.1.15) 2008; the very provides (Fig Park appeara ctically ident 2% of city re gs for land u ill quite low. ment in 2008 Land use, pla 14.0% Neutral / ve 008 2006 4.5% 35.0% Neutral / ve 008 2006 City of Laramie 2008. A clear . All ratings o y high positiv ure 5.1.16). ance and main tical to 2006. sidents give use, planning While negati (45%) over anning and zo 15.0% 84.2 P / Average 2008 200 37.5% 16.3 P / Average 2008 200 Survey, 2008 r majority (71 of appearanc ve rating (83% ntenance. This service this service a and zoning a ive ratings fo 2006 oning. 82.8% 2% Positive 06 2008 18.0% 3% Positive 06 2008 16 in 2008 ce and for this is rated an average as provided b or this item ar (Figure 5.1.18 by re ---PAGE BREAK--- Simil 32% by 41 quali some Figu Resid item 2006 disab perce acces perce Figu 2 Defi WYSAC, U larly to 2006 give this an 1% of Laram ity of animal e frequency i ure 5.1.19. Cod dents were as s, the quality 6 to 50% in 2 bled access to entages that ss in Laramie entage than t ure 5.1.21. Dis fined in the surv 56.3% 57.4% Negative 2006 2008 8.7% 8.5% Negative 2006 2008 University of W a ma average ratin mie citizens (a control is ra in the open-e de enforcemen sked to rate t y of disabled 2008. About 4 o public streets, are nearly un e, the negativ that for the n abled access ( vey as weeds, aba 31.8 32.1% Neutral / Ave 2006 200 41.7 38.7% Neutral / Ave 2006 200 Wyoming ajority of resi ng (Figure 5.1 a drop of 3 p ated negativel ended and vo nt (weeds, junk the quality of access to city 42% of Lara s, sidewalks, etc nchanged fro ve rating for d negative ratin (city facilities, p andoned buildings, 1 8% 10.6% Positi erage 08 2006 4 7% 52.8% Positi erage 08 2006 idents in 200 1.19). The qu percentage po ly by 19% of olunteered re k, etc.). f two items r y facilities, park mie citizens is rated po om 2006. Tho disabled acce ng of access t parks, etc.). , junk, etc. 11.9% ive 2008 49.6% ive 2008 8 (56%) nega uality of anim oints from 20 f citizens (Fig esponses (Ap Figure 5.1.20. related to acc ks, etc., shows state that suc ositively by 44 ough negativ ess to streets, s to city facilities Figure 5.1.22. 19 17.2% Negativ 2006 20 16 16.7% Negativ 2006 20 C atively rate th mal control b 006) and 40% gure 5.1.20). ppendix . Animal contr cess for the d s a small decr ch access is a 4% and as av ve ratings are sidewalks, etc. s, parks, etc. (9 . Disabled acc 9.0% 38.8% Neutral / ve 008 2006 6.0% 39.0% Neutral / ve 008 2006 City of Laramie he quality of y the City of % rate this se Animal cont rol. disabled in La rease in posit average. The verage by 40% low for both (16%) remai (Figures cess (public stre 39.7% 44.0 P / Average 2008 200 39.6% 44.3 P / Average 2008 200 Survey, 2008 code enforc f Laramie is p rvice as aver trol issues als aramie. The f tive ratings, f second item % of Larami h items addre ins nearly twi 5.1.21 and 5 eets, sidewalks, 41.3% 0% Positive 06 2008 44.4% 3% Positive 06 2008 17 ement2, whil positively rate rage. The so figure with first of these from 53% in m, regarding e citizens; essing disable ice the 5.1.22). , etc.). e ed h e n ed ---PAGE BREAK--- Near nega Figu WYSAC, U rly equal perc ative P ure 5.1.23. Bui 39.6% 39.2% Negative 2006 2008 University of W centages of c Positive ratin ilding permit s 40.7 38.1% Neutral / Ave 2006 200 Wyoming citizens rate t ngs for this ite services. 1 7% 22.6% Positi erage 08 2006 the quality of em decreased 19.7% ive 2008 f City of Lara d to 2 C amie building 20% in 2008 City of Laramie g permit serv from 23% in Survey, 2008 vices as avera n 2006 (Figu 18 age (41%) or ure 5.1.23). ---PAGE BREAK--- 5.1. The citize ratin ratin who As ca servic recei Figur Acc WYSAC, U 1. Summary following tw ens as discus g each item a gs to the serv rated the ite an be seen in ce park ived a majori re 5.1.1.1. City cess for disabled Access for d University of W of results for wo figures dis sed in the fir as excellent or vice with the ms as not so g n Figure 5.1.1 k appearance/m ity of excellent services ranke Park appear Re Relia Land d persons to city disabled person Dis Enforcem Snow remova Build Land us Street main Wyoming r Quality of C splay the 200 rst part of thi r good Pos e lowest posit good or poor (i 1.1 below, th maintenance (8 t or good resp ed by respons Fire figh Ambulance serv rance/maintena Fire prevent ecreation progra Water qua bility of water f Garbage collect dfill (dump) serv y facilities, park ns on public stre aster preparedn Animal con Crime prevent ment of traffic la Sewer serv al on major stre Street clean ding permit serv Storm drain se, planning, zon Code enforcem ntenance and re City Services 8 results for is section. Th sitive), arrang tive rating. T i.e., Negative), he five highes 83%), fire prev onses from L es of excellent 1 1 0% 2 ting vice ance tion ams ality flow tion vices s, … eets, … ness ntrol tion aws vices eets ning vices nage ning ment pair s all 23 City o he first figure ed in descen The second fi with the low st rated City s vention Laramie citiz nt or good. 4 39 37. 35.6 32.9% 32.2% 19.7% 19.5% 18.0% 11.9% 1.6% 20% 40% C f Laramie ser e (5.1.1.1) pre ding order o igure (5.1.1.2 west-scoring services in 20 and recreation ens. 64.7 49.6% 44.4% 42.9% 41.3% 9.6% 6% % % 60% City of Laramie rvices that w esents the pe f the service 2) presents th items presen 008 are: fire fi n programs (73 86.3% 84.4% 82.8% 73.3% 72.7% 72.2% 71.1% 70.7% 7% 80% 100 Survey, 2008 were rated by ercentages of with the hig he percentage nted first. fighting Of the 2 0% 19 Laramie f residents ghest positive es of resident , ambulance 23 items, 9 e ts ---PAGE BREAK--- Figur poor ( highe good o (45% of re Figur Acc WYSAC, U re 5.1.1.2 bel Negative) est percentag or poor are: st and buildin espondents, w re 5.1.1.2. City Access for d cess for disabled University of W low lists each Services ar ge of respond treet maintenan ng permit servic while 10 serv services rank Street main Land us Build Snow remova Enforcem Dis disabled person Land d persons to city Relia Re Park appear Wyoming h item in mu re arranged in dents. The fiv nce and repair ( ces O vices receive s ed by respons ntenance and re Code enforcem Storm drain se, planning, zon ding permit serv al on major stre ment of traffic la Street clean Sewer serv Animal con aster preparedn ns on public stre Crime prevent dfill (dump) serv Garbage collect y facilities, park bility of water f Water qua ecreation progra Fire prevent rance/maintena Ambulance serv Fire figh ch the same n descending ve services w code en Only 7 of the such ratings ses of not so go 1 9.3 9.0 8.7 8.4% 5.5% 4.8% 2.8% 2.2% 1.1% 1.0% 0% 2 pair ment nage ning vices eets aws ning vices ntrol ness eets, … tion vices tion s, … flow ality ams tion ance vice ting way as above g order by the with the high nforcement (56 23 services r from under good or poor. 39 30.6% 25.8% 22.6% 19.3% 19.0% 17.9% 16.0% 1.7% 3% 0% % % 20% 40% C e, but percen e service rece est percentag storm dra receive a not s 10% of the c 60.0% 56.3% 44.8% 44.5% 9.6% 60% City of Laramie ntages repres eiving a not so ge of respond ainage so good or poor citizens (Figu 80% 100 Survey, 2008 ent ratings o o good or poor dents rating t land use, plann r rating from ure 5.1.1.2). 0% 20 of not so good o rating by the them as not s ning, zoning m at least 25% or e so % ---PAGE BREAK--- 5.2. A sh of La all su inter prov for th are c Resid below Police Adm Figur WYSAC, U . Interact hort series of aramie depar urvey residen raction, reside vided an over he questions collapsed into dents were as w, the depart e follo ministration, Fir re 5.2.1. City d 33.2% Police University of W tion with survey items rtment with w nts had some ents evaluate rall impressio in the prece o Positive. Ref sked with wh tment with w owed by Park re, and Comm departments of 22.9% Parks & Recreation Wyoming h City Em s asked reside which they h City departm ed departmen on of this mo eding section fer to Appen hich City dep which most c ks & Recreatio munity Developm f most recent 22.1% Public Works mployees ents to evalu had their mos ment interact nt personnel ost recent int : Excellent, G dix A for the partment they citizens had th on (23%) and ment (Figure interaction 10.1% Administration uate personne st recent inter tion within th regarding th eraction. The Good, About av e full frequen y most recen heir most rec d Public Work 5.2.1). 7.1% Fire n C el, using perf raction withi his period (45 eir knowledg e scale used f verage, Not so g ncy distributi ntly interacted cent interacti s Far 4.6% Communit Developme City of Laramie formance–ba in the past 12 5% in 2006). ge, responsiv for this serie good, and Poor ons for each d within the p ion within th fewer citizen 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% y nt Survey, 2008 ased criteria, f 2 months. Ar . Based on th veness, and co s is identical r. Again, Exc h department past 12 mon he past 12 mo ns had any in 21 from the City round 46% o his most rece ourtesy, and to that used cellent and Go . ths. As seen onths was nteraction wit y of ent ood th ---PAGE BREAK--- The based tabul Fire D and A Figur Figur 92% perso Figur Co Co WYSAC, U four graphs d criteria (kn lation of each Department as Administration re 5.2.2. City d re 5.2.3 prese of citizens r onnel from t re 5.2.3. City d Pub Admin Parks & Re mmunity Deve Admin Parks & Re Pub mmunity Deve University of W that follow d nowledge, respon h performan s the most kn n (both at 69 departments ra ents resident rate Fire Depa the Police Dep departments ra 0% Fire Police blic Works nistration ecreation elopment (Excellent o 0% Fire Police nistration ecreation blic Works elopment ( Wyoming display the ra nsiveness, court nce criterion b nowledgeable (Figure 5 ated on knowl ts' ratings of artment person artment (74% ated on respon 41.2% 20% 4 or Good) 37.5% 20% (Excellent or Good atings that Ci tesy, and overa by each city d e follo 5.2.2). ledge personnel fo nnel as excelle Administra nsiveness 77.1 69.2% 68.7% 63.1% % 40% 60% 74.2 69.5% 68.6% 62.0% 40% 60% d) ty departmen all impression). department n owed by thos or each City d ent or good on ation P 92.3% 1% 80% 100 92.3% 2% % 80% 1 C nt personnel These result named. Laram se from the P department o n responsiven Parks and Recr 0% 100% City of Laramie received on ts are calculat mie citizens r Police Departm on the criterio ness, and maj reation Survey, 2008 the four per ted through a rate personne ment P on of responsi jorities positi , and Public W 22 formance- a cross- el from the Public Works iveness. Aroun ively rate Works nd ---PAGE BREAK--- Perso of La Publi Figur As w impre state Adm Figur Co Co WYSAC, U onnel from t aramie citizen ic Works (73% re 5.2.4. City d with the three ession, with 92 that their ov ministration (68 re 5.2.5. City d Admin Pub Parks & Re mmunity Deve Admin Parks & Re Pub mmunity Deve University of W the Fire Depa ns. Majoritie Parks & R departments ra e other perfo 2% of residen verall impres Parks an departments ra 0% Fire Police nistration blic Works ecreation elopment (Excellent or Go 0% Fire Police nistration ecreation blic Works elopment Wyoming rtment receive s also positiv Recreation Dep ated on courte ormance crite nts rating per sion with Pol nd Recreation ( ated on overal 20% ood) 47 20% (Excellent o e excellent or g vely rate pers partment (70% esy eria, personne rsonnel from lice Departmen 67%), Public ll impression 7 77 72.6 70.3% 64.7% 40% 60% 72.8 67.5% 66.6% 62.1% 7.1% 40% 60% or Good) good ratings fo sonnel from t and Comm el from the F m this departm nt personnel i Works (62%) 92.3% 79.3% 7.7% % % 80% 1 92.3% % 80% 1 C for courtesy f the Police Dep munity Develop Fire Departmen ment as excell is excellent or and Commu 100% 100% City of Laramie from an over partment (79% pment (65%) ( nt receive the llent or good. A good, followe unity Developm Survey, 2008 rwhelming m Administra (Figure 5.2.4) e highest ratin Around 73% ed by those fr ment (47%) (F 23 majority (92% ation ngs for overal of citizens from Figure 5.2.5). ll ---PAGE BREAK--- 5.3. City p Resid Laram proble topic (Figu Distr For e majo abou resid next citize are th impr the C rewo Figur *No WYSAC, U . Percept problems dents were p mie. Specific lem, a Minor p cs that Laram ure 5.3.1). Th ributions; ques each survey i or problem fo ut this item h dents who fee item perceiv ens in 2008 ( he next two i rovement fro City of Laram orded (forme re 5.3.1. Issues ot comparable to P S Parking av 2006 University of W tions of C resented with cally, citizens roblem, a Mod mie citizens fe he full percen stion iteration, the or the city is p has improved el that alcohol ved by citizen (down items perceiv om 2006. For mie (well und erly just graffit s/topics perce o 2006. Public Unsup Lit Occupa Parking availabil peeding and tra Il Alcohol‐re vailability aroun 2008 Wyoming City Prob h a list of ite evaluated w derate problem, eel are major ntage distribu only issue th parking aroun d from l-related offenses ns as a major y from 38% ved to be ma r both survey der 10% for b ti) for this su eived as major Crime c disturbances pervised youth tter and debris Vandalism * ncy violations lity downtown Nuisances Loud vehicles affic violations llegal drug use lated offenses d UW campus blems and ms and asked hether each p or a Major p r problems fo utions of resp hat a majority nd the UW cam m 2006 to 20 s are a major r problem is i in 2006). Th ajor problem y years, low p both years). T rvey iteration r problems by 4.1% 9.1% 11.3% 11.6% 12.7% 13.1% 2 6.5% 11.8% 12.0% 13.9% 17 18 0% 25 d Person d whether or presented ite roblem. Below or the City of ponses for al y (69% in 20 mpus. While th 08. Also sho r problem: th illegal drug use he items speed s; both of th percentages o The item vand n and is not c Laramie citiz % % % % 21.0% 28.5% 28.8% 29.5% 35.6% 44. % % % 8.4% 28.7% 35.2% 36.0% 37.6% 4 5% 50% C al Safety r not each ite em, as it relat w, in descend f Laramie for ll items are co 008; 71% in 2 his is no surp owing some im his is down to e, which is ide ding and traffic ese items, ho of residents b dalism (graffiti, comparable t ens. 68.6% 7.5% 70.7 % 75% City of Laramie em is or is no tes to the Cit ding order, is r both survey ontained in A 2006) of Lara prise, it is no mprovement o 45% in 200 entified as a m violations (30% owever, show believe crime t i, broken windo to 2006. 100% Survey, 2008 ot a problem ty of Laramie the list of iss y years 2006 Appendix A amie citizens oteworthy tha t is the perce 08 from 48% major proble and loud v w a six percen to be a major ows, etc.) was 24 for the City e, is Not a sues and and 2008 (Frequency feels is a at perception entage of in 2006. Th em by 36% o vehicles (29%) ntage point r problem in significantly of n e of ---PAGE BREAK--- Perso Resid and t or N locat respo As se down somew resid Figur In In WYSAC, U onal safety dents were as times of day. Not safe at all f tions and tim onses for eac een below (F ntown during what unsafe or dents feel safe re 5.3.2. Time In Lar In the down In your neig the downtow In Laramie n your neighbo 2006 University of W sked to indic . Citizens we for various lo mes in which L ch of these it Figure 5.3.2), g the daytim r not safe at all e even in the s when and lo ramie parks aft ntown area aft ghborhood aft n area during t e parks during t orhood during t 2008 Wyoming cate their per re asked to in ocations and Laramie citiz tems are cont practically sp e. Only three l: downtown ese particular ocations where 0% ter dark. ter dark. ter dark. the day. the day. the day. ceptions of p ndicate whet times. Figure zens feel Very tained in App peaking, all r e situations p after dark (1 situations. e Laramie citiz 25% personal safe ther they per e 5.3.2 (below ry safe or Some pendix A (Fr residents feel present appre and in L zens feel very % C ety within the sonally feel V w) displays th ewhat safe. Th requency Distri safe in their eciable percen Laramie park safe or somew 71.0% 65.1% 50% City of Laramie e City of Lara Very safe, Som he results fro he full percen ibutions; quest neighborho ntages of Lar ks after dark what safe. % 82.3% 94. 80.7% 91.2% 75% Survey, 2008 amie for cert mewhat safe, So om 2006 and ntage distribu tion ods, Laramie ramie citizen high 98.6% 99.4% 99.5% % 98.8% 98.6% 98.9% 100% 25 tain locations omewhat unsafe 2008 for utions of e parks, and ns feeling majorities of s fe, f ---PAGE BREAK--- 5.4. Resid For t serie prov agree agree choic Arou encou Figur WYSAC, U . Citizen dents were p this series of s of statemen vided respond nor disagree, S are collapsed ce of Neither und 46% of L urages citizen pa re 5.4.1. City w 34.2 32.5% Disagree 2006 2008 University of W Opinion resented with f survey items nts about Cit dents with a Somewhat disag d into Agree; agree nor disag Laramie citiz articipation. Th welcomes citiz 2% 17.8% N 200 Wyoming ns of City h five survey s, Laramie ci ty governmen five-point sc gree, and Stron likewise, Som gree is display zens agree wi his is a four p zen involvemen 19.4% % Neutral 06 2008 y Governm y items that d itizens were a nt. As with o cale; in this ca ngly disagree. F mewhat disagree yed as Neutral th the statem percentage p nt and encour 4 49.8% Agree 2006 20 ment and directly relate asked to indi other questio ase the respo For the purpo e and Strongly l. ment, The City point drop fro rages citizen p 46.4% e 008 C d City Ser e to City of L cate their lev ns using scal onse choices oses of this d y disagree are c y of Laramie g om 2006 (50 participation. City of Laramie rvice Fee Laramie gove vel of agreem led response are Strongly ag discussion, St collapsed into government welc (Figure 5 Survey, 2008 es rnment and ment or disagr choices, thes agree, Somewha trongly agree an o Disagree. Th comes citizen in 5.4.1). 26 service fees. reement with se statement at agree, Neithe nd Somewhat he response nvolvement and h a s er d ---PAGE BREAK--- Arou spen 2006 Rega sligh poin Figur Figur WYSAC, U und 39% of L nt on City ser 6; that situatio arding wheth htly from 200 ts over 2006 re 5.4.2. Unde re 5.4.3. Fee fo 47.8 38.7% Disagree 2006 2008 38.3 44.0% Disagree 2006 2008 University of W Laramie citiz rvices, operat on has revers her or not the 06). In 2008, a (Figure 5.4.3 rstand how ta or City water s 8% 16.9% N 200 3% 12.5% N 200 Wyoming zens agree, an tions, and cap sed in 2008, h e fee for City around 38% axes spent on C service is reaso 13.7% % Neutral 06 2008 17.0% % Neutral 06 2008 nd 48% disag pital projects however, and y water servic of citizens d City services, o onable. 3 44.4% Agree 2006 20 4 43.4% Agree 2006 20 gree, that the s. There was d more citize ce is reasonab disagree with operations, an 38.5% e 008 44.7% e 008 C y have a goo more agreem ens now disag ble, nearly 45 this stateme nd capital proj City of Laramie od understand ment than dis gree than agr 5% of Laram ent, an impro ects. Survey, 2008 ding of how sagreement w ree (Figure 5 mie citizens ag ovement of si 27 their taxes ar with this in gree (up ix percentage re e ---PAGE BREAK--- Fully price agree Agre 22% Figur Figur WYSAC, U y half (50%) ed for the ser ement or disa eement for th in 2006 (Fig re 5.4.4. Fee fo re 5.4.5. Fee fo 29.5 29.9% Disagree 2006 2008 26.3 22.4% Disagree 2006 2008 University of W of residents i rvice received agreement th his item is do gure 5.4.5). or sewage coll or garbage col 5% 17.5% N 200 3% 12.2% N 200 Wyoming in 2008 agree d. This is dow hat the fee fo own seven pe lection and tre llection and di 20.7% % Neutral 06 2008 15.5% % Neutral 06 2008 e that the fee wn three per or garbage co ercentage poi eatment is reas isposal is reas 4 52.5% Agree 2006 20 5 65.3% Agree 2006 20 e they pay for rcentage poin ollection and ints from 200 sonable. onable. 49.8% e 008 58.3% e 008 C r City sewage nts from 2006 disposal is re 06, while disa City of Laramie e collection a 6 (Figure 5.4 easonably pri agreement is Survey, 2008 and treatmen 4.4). When as iced, 58% ag up to 26% i 28 nt is reasonab ked their gree. in 2008 from bly m ---PAGE BREAK--- 5.5. Gov One below than article (45% Lara Figur WYSAC, U . Informa vernmen survey item w (Figure 5.5 one choice. les/advertiseme % in 2008; 46 amie website, an re 5.5.1. Citize Interne new City of Laram Public TV C Newspaper leg Talking w and ne Newspape advertis 2006 20 University of W ation Sou nt Activiti asked reside 5.1) presents As displayed nts (85% in 2 6% in 2006). nd reading ne ens’ sources of 1. 2 0% Other et or email wsletters ie website c meetings Television Channel 11 gal notices Radio ith friends ighbors r articles / ements 008 Wyoming urces use ies ents to identif the 2006 and d, the top thr 2008; 88% in In 2008, not ewspaper legal n f information o 6.6% 13.5% 15.0% 22.8 26 8.2% 10.0% 9.1% 25 25% ed by City fy how they g d 2008 result ree informati n 2006), talkin ably higher p notices as sour on City of Lar % 6.4% 33.5% 44.6% 30.0% 35.1% 45.7% 50% y of Lara gather inform ts for sources on sources r ng with friends percentages o rces of inform ramie governm 65.6% % 65.1% 75% C amie Resi mation about s used, and r emain identic and neighbors of citizens ind mation than ment activities 85.4% 87.5% 100% City of Laramie idents fo t City govern residents wer cal across bo (66% in 200 dicate attendin did in 2006. . Survey, 2008 or City nment activiti re allowed to oth survey ye 08; 65% in 20 ng public meeti 29 ies. The figur select more ars: newspaper 006), and radi ings, City of re r io ---PAGE BREAK--- 5.6. Clark The owne citize Arou this q Appe prior priori Figur Figur re N WYSAC, U . Current k Street viaduc survey asked ership of the ens stating th und 40% of r question did endices A an rity it would ity or is a low p re 5.6.1. Prefer re 5.6.2. Retain The Clark S econstructed b only for LOC 33.3% Not a priority University of W t Issues f ct d residents wh e viaduct. The hat the viaduc residents agre not ask or p nd Anoth be to retain t priority (Figu rence for Clark n Clark Street 60.2% treet viaduct t by the City and CAL vehicular t 28.6% Low priority Wyoming facing Cit hat they thou e results prov ct should be ee that the vi rovide space er item, also the viaduct if re 5.6.2). k street viaduc viaduct at Cit The to be d opened raffic. 23.3% Moderate prio ty Govern ught should b vide valuable reconstructe iaduct should e for commen on the subje f at City expe ct options. ty expense. 39 e Clark Street only for non‐v 14.8% High prio ority nment be done with e feedback on ed by the City d be open on nts, numerou ect of the Cla ense. For this 9.8% viaduct to be vehicular traffi % ority C h the Clark S n this issue, w y and opened nly for non-v us responden ark Street via s item, over 6 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% open ic. 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Displ based on 200 it is ranked as y 52% of res d as high prio protecting Lar ctively) from s a high prior igh priority). C % % 59.8 61 42.4% 40.8% 51.7% 50% City of Laramie sought regar layed below 08 results. In s such by few sidents in 200 ority by more ramie's environ 2006 to 2008 rity in both y Comparison of 8% 72.7% 75% 1 Survey, 2008 rding funding (Figure 5.7.2 2006, preserv wer residents 06; it is ranke e Laramie res nment as high 8. Around 28 ears. f 2006 to 2008. 100% 33 g priorities, 1 2) are results vation of water s in 2008 ed as such by sidents in 200 priorities 8% of Laram 10 y 08 mie ---PAGE BREAK--- WYSAC, University of Wyoming City of Laramie Survey, 2008 34 6. Cross-tabulations Several variables of interest were cross-tabulated with relevant background variables. Only the breakdowns that exhibited statistically significant differences (p < 0.01) and that were also deemed meaningful or useful are presented below. It should be kept in mind that many of the background variables used in the following comparisons are co-related. Thus, for example, when we are comparing those who rent versus those who own their residence, we are also comparing two groups where the proportion of students is much higher in one than in the other. The proportion of students among renters is much higher (15%) than their proportion in the entire sample Likewise, when we compare retirees to everyone else, we are also comparing older versus younger adults, and so on. As a result, some of the following observations are somewhat repetitive. Also important to note is that simple association between pairs of variables do not establish or necessarily imply causation. 6.1. Cross-tabulations by Housing Status A series of cross-tabulations was performed to test the significance of differences in responses by the housing status of respondents. All cross-tabulations that displayed statistically significant differences at the level of p < 0.01 and that have relevance are summarized in Table 6.1.1. As can be seen, homeowners (18%) are significantly less likely than renters (33%) to rate storm drainage as excellent or good. More renters (78%) than homeowners (58%) consider the establishment of a public bus system in Laramie to be a high priority. Regarding priorities for funds allocation (if funds were available), there are three areas where homeowners and renters significantly differ. Maintaining infrastructure (sewer and water distribution system, storm drains) is identified as a high priority by more homeowners (77%) than renters However, retaining use of the Clark Street viaduct at the city's expense is viewed as a high priority by more renters (29%) than homeowners These differences may be reflective of less permanent residency among renters, and therefore somewhat less interest, involvement, or investment in the city budget and long-term City plans. Interestingly, more renters (25%) than homeowners (13%) consider beautification a high priority (Table 6.1.1). Table 6.1.1. Cross-tabulations by Housing status. (Q1 – Q12) Housing Status Own Rent Q1. How would you rate the QUALITY of each of the following services provided by the City of Laramie? (excellent or good) Storm drainage 17.7% 33.3% Q8. Regarding a public bus system… (strongly agree or somewhat agree) How much do you agree or disagree that establishing a public bus system in Laramie is a high priority? 58.4% 78.0% Q12. If the City of Laramie had funds available, how would you prioritize each of the following? (high priority) Maintaining infrastructure (sewer and water distribution system, storm drains) 77.1% 45.0% Retain use of Clark Street viaduct at City expense 13.7% 29.2% Beautification downtown, public areas) 12.7% 25.0% ---PAGE BREAK--- WYSAC, University of Wyoming City of Laramie Survey, 2008 35 6.2. Cross-tabulations by Residence Location Cross-tabulations were also performed for residence location. Those that displayed statistically significant differences at the level of p < 0.01 and that have relevance are summarized in Table 6.2.1 below. The various residence locations defined during questionnaire development (see Appendix D) are largely the same for this analysis, though the areas defined in the questionnaire as Downtown/West Side and UW Campus area are combined into Central. Not surprisingly, fewer West residents (16%) that other area residents rate the city service of street cleaning excellent or good. Additionally, under 20% of West residents consider snow removal on major streets as excellent or good, whereas such ratings are never below 33% in all other areas. North and West area residents provide lower positive ratings for street maintenance and repair than do residents from the other areas of the city. Significantly fewer Residents from the South and Central areas, rate street cleaning as excellent or good in higher percentages than do those from other areas. Regarding items that would be of high priority, provided funds are available, two differ significantly by area. Not surprisingly, significantly more residents in the West (26%) and Central (19%) areas consider retaining use of the Clark Street viaduct at the city's expense to be a high priority than do residents from other city areas. Also not surprising is that paving of streets that are currently unpaved is considered a high priority the most by residents from the West area. Table 6.2.1. Cross-tabulations by Residence location. (Q1 – Q12) Residence Location West North East South Central Q1. How would you rate the QUALITY of each of the following services provided by the City of Laramie? (excellent or good) Street maintenance and repair 8.3% 4.9% 11.4% 17.3% 15.6% Street cleaning 16.3% 30.1% 31.0% 42.1% 33.3% Snow removal on major streets (not including residential) 19.1% 32.6% 39.1% 39.3% 32.8% Recreation programs 62.8% 68.3% 82.9% 80.3% 59.3% Q12. If the City of Laramie had funds available, how would you prioritize each of the following? (high priority) Retain use of Clark Street viaduct at City expense 26.0% 11.0% 10.4% 11.5% 18.6% Paving streets that are currently unpaved 45.7% 15.8% 13.8% 18.6% 16.7% ---PAGE BREAK--- WYSAC, University of Wyoming City of Laramie Survey, 2008 36 6.3. Cross-tabulations by Employment Status Cross-tabulations were also performed on the demographic variable of employment status. For the purposes of this analysis, respondents who marked full-time employed only, and those who marked full-time employed plus any other response choice, are considered full-time employed. Those who marked part-time employed and anything other than full-time employed are designated part-time employed. Respondents who marked retired and student are designated as retired, and those who marked student but nothing else are designated students. Respondents who indicated they are not employed at this time, without marking any other category, are considered not employed. However, for this final group, no statistically significant cross-tabulations were returned. Otherwise, the results of the cross-tabulations of relevance that displayed statistically significant differences at the level of p < 0.01 are presented in the tables below. The full-time employed are less likely (69%) than all other employment categories taken together (80%) to rate recreation programs as excellent or good. Also, fewer full-time employed citizens (62%) agree that the City of Laramie government welcomes citizen involvement and encourages citizen participation than do those from other employment categories Residents who are full-time employed are less likely (19%) than others (28%) to use television, but are more likely (17%) to use the City of Laramie website than others for information about city government activities. Across the board, significantly lower percentages of full-time employed citizens than others think that police protection, fire protection and emergency medical services, and traffic calming (pedestrian safety) are a high priority for City of Laramie funds, if such funds were available (Table 6.3.1). Table 6.3.1. Full-time employed vs. all other employment categories (Q1 – Q12) Employment Status Full-time Other Q1. How would you rate the QUALITY of each of the following services provided by the City of Laramie? (excellent or good) Recreation programs 68.5% 79.5% Q6. To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements? (strongly or somewhat agree) "The City of Laramie government welcomes citizen involvement and encourages citizen participation." 62.0% 71.3% Q9. Where do you get information about the activities of city government? Television 19.0% 27.6% City of Laramie website 16.8% 9.1% Q12. If the City of Laramie had funds available, how would you prioritize each of the following? (high priority) Police protection 37.1% 56.0% Fire protection and Emergency Medical Services 47.8% 64.7% Traffic calming (pedestrian safety) 16.4% 25.2% ---PAGE BREAK--- WYSAC, University of Wyoming City of Laramie Survey, 2008 37 Students are considerably less likely (40%) than those in other employment categories (86%) to use newspaper articles/advertisements for information about city government activities (Table 6.3.2). Table 6.3.2. Students vs. all other employment categories (Q1 – Q12) Employment Status Student Other Q9. Where do you get information about the activities of city government? Newspaper articles/advertisements 40.0% 85.7% Retired citizens are more likely than others to rate the following City services as excellent or good: recreation programs, access for disabled persons to city facilities, parks, etc., and access for disabled persons on public streets, sidewalks, crosswalks, etc. More retired citizens (45%) than others (32%) feel that illegal drug use is a major problem in Laramie, and fewer retired citizens (14%) than others (24%) consider parking availability downtown to be a major problem. A greater percentage (30%) of retired citizens than others (20%) use television as an information source for city government activities, though a lower percentage of retirees use the City of Laramie website for that purpose than do those from other employment groups There are numerous significant differences between retired citizens and others when it comes to identifying high- priority funding issues. Issues identified as high priority by more retired citizens than by others include police protection, fire protection and emergency medical services, and proactive weed control. Those issues identified as a high priority by lower percentages of retired citizens than by others include expanding the City’s bike paths and greenbelt systems and curbside recycling and/or composting (Table 6.3.3). Table 6.3.3. Retired vs. all other employment categories (Q1 – Q12) Employment Status Retired Other Q1. How would you rate the QUALITY of each of the following services provided by the City of Laramie? (excellent or good) Recreation programs 80.6% 70.1% Access for disabled persons to city facilities, parks, etc. 58.2% 46.1% Access for disabled persons on public streets, sidewalks, crosswalks, etc. 51.9% 41.3% Q4. How do you feel about the following issues as they relate to the City of Laramie? (major problem) Illegal drug use 45.0% 32.4% Parking availability downtown 14.1% 23.8% Q9. Where do you get information about the activities of city government? Television 29.8% 19.6% City of Laramie website 7.1% 16.3% Q12. If the City of Laramie had funds available, how would you prioritize each of the following? (high priority) Expanding the City's bike paths and greenbelt systems 7.4% 16.5% Curbside recycling and/or composting 13.9% 25.5% Police protection 59.7% 39.0% Fire protection and Emergency Medical Services 66.5% 50.2% Proactive weed control 16.3% 9.7% ---PAGE BREAK--- WYSAC, University of Wyoming City of Laramie Survey, 2008 38 6.4. Cross-tabulations by Length of Residence Length of residence in Laramie is another background variable that was cross-tabulated with relevant survey items. As this is a variable of scale, only those significant results (at the level of p < 0.01) that exhibit a discernible general trend— either an increase or decrease in the percentages for particular items as citizens’ length of residence increases—are presented. Generally, as length of residence increases, the excellent and good ratings decrease for the following items: enforcement of traffic laws, crime prevention, storm drainage, and land use, planning, and zoning. The opposite is true for water quality; as length of residence increases, the good and excellent ratings increase. As length of residence increases, there is a general corresponding increase in the percentages of those who consider alcohol related offences and parking availability around the UW campus to be major problems. When length of residence was cross-tabulated with sources for information about City of Laramie government activities, the most notable finding was that newspaper articles/advertisements are used most often by citizens in all length of residence categories, with nearly 90% of residents of over 20 years using this source, and percentages in other categories never falling below 67%. Also, the use of this information source generally increases as length of residence increases. For three other information sources—newspaper legal notices, TV Channel 11, and public meetings—there is a general increase in use as length of residence increases (Table 6.4.1). Table 6.4.1. Cross-tabulations by Length of Laramie residence. (Q1 – Q9) Length of residence in Laramie (years) < 2 2−5 6−10 11−20 > 20 Q1. How would you rate the QUALITY of each of the following services provided by the City of Laramie? (excellent or good) Enforcement of traffic laws 66.7% 47.2% 55.1% 27.0% 34.3% Crime prevention 70.6% 43.6% 58.2% 33.0% 36.4% Storm drainage 38.9% 22.0% 31.3% 18.6% 16.7% Water quality 57.1% 58.2% 63.8% 68.5% 76.4% Land use, planning, zoning 56.3% 23.1% 15.9% 11.5% 18.0% Q4. How do you feel about the following issues as they relate to the City of Laramie? (major problem) Alcohol-related offenses 14.3% 22.4% 35.1% 53.8% 47.6% Parking availability around UW campus 36.8% 58.9% 65.4% 66.3% 72.1% Q9. Where do you get information about the activities of city government? Newspaper articles/advertisements 73.9% 66.7% 79.8% 85.1% 89.3% Newspaper legal notices 13.0% 28.3% 19.0% 31.6% 38.0% TV Channel 11 8.7% 15.0% 19.0% 20.2% 31.1% Public Meetings 6.7% 4.8% 18.4% 17.5% ---PAGE BREAK--- WYSAC, University of Wyoming City of Laramie Survey, 2008 39 6.5. Cross-tabulations by Age Finally, differences in responses to relevant survey items across age groups were tested for statistically significant differences (p < 0.01). Those that exhibit some discernible trend are displayed below. Generally, as age increases, the ratings of good or excellent also increase for ambulance service and water quality. For issues identified as major problems for Laramie, the responses to two items differ significantly by resident age. As age increases, illegal drug use is seen by higher percentages of respondents as a major problem. The reverse is true for parking availability downtown: as age increases, the percentages decrease for those residents who identify this as a major problem. Also, as age increases, there is a general increase in the number of citizens who agree that they have a good understanding of how their taxes are spent on City services, operations and capital projects. Only 13% of those aged 18 to 24 strongly agree or somewhat agree with that statement, while 65% of residents over 75 years of age feel the same way (Table 6.5.1). Table 6.5.1. Cross-tabulations by Age. (Q1 – Q6) Age (years) 18 − 24 25 − 34 35 − 44 45 − 54 55 − 64 65 − 74 75 or older Q1. How would you rate the QUALITY of each of the following services provided by the City of Laramie? (excellent or good) Ambulance service 100.0% 66.7% 77.9% 82.1% 84.8% 90.6% 91.3% Water quality 33.3% 71.8% 64.3% 63.7% 76.9% 75.8% 85.4% Q4. How do you feel about the following issues as they relate to the City of Laramie? (major problem) Illegal drug use 27.3% 18.2% 20.7% 26.0% 41.7% 52.0% 46.5% Parking availability downtown 33.3% 40.0% 20.0% 25.3% 20.4% 17.1% 9.2% Q6. To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements? (strongly or somewhat agree) "I have a good understanding of how my taxes are spent on City services, operations and capital projects." 12.5% 48.7% 40.4% 56.5% 51.2% 53.0% 65.3% ---PAGE BREAK--- WYSAC, University of Wyoming City of Laramie Survey, 2008 40 In terms of the sources of information used by Laramie residents to obtain information on City government activities, there is a general increase in the number of residents who use TV Channel 11 as age increases. The opposite is true for the use of the City of Laramie website: as age increases, prevalence of use generally declines. Five items of relevance regarding priorities for City spending exhibit statistically significant differences in responses given by respondents of the various age groups. As age increases, so do the percentages of Laramie residents who think the following items are a high priority: maintaining infrastructure, police protection, and fire protection and Emergency Medical Service. The items that are considered to be a high priority by significantly fewer respondents as age increases as age increases, percentages decline) include expanding the city's bike path and greenbelt systems and curbside recycling and/or composting (Table 6.5.2). Table 6.5.2. Cross-tabulations by Age. (Q9 – Q12) Age (years) 18 − 24 25 − 34 35 − 44 45 − 54 55 − 64 65 − 74 75 or older Q9. Where do you get information about the activities of city government? City of Laramie website 8.3% 20.0% 30.0% 14.6% 11.7% 9.0% 3.1% TV Channel 11 20.0% 13.0% 24.9% 30.3% 34.3% 25.8% Q12. If the City of Laramie had funds available, how would you prioritize each of the following? (high priority) Maintaining infrastructure (sewer and water distribution system, storm drains) 41.7% 63.2% 70.8% 69.8% 81.6% 76.2% 76.7% Expanding the city's bike path and greenbelt systems 33.3% 7.9% 26.3% 14.7% 13.5% 8.8% 7.1% Curbside recycling and/or composting 58.3% 34.2% 33.7% 19.1% 23.6% 12.8% 13.6% Police protection 36.4% 25.6% 26.7% 41.4% 46.5% 53.9% 62.2% Fire protection and Emergency Medical Services 45.5% 51.3% 38.6% 51.4% 57.3% 60.3% 65.5% ---PAGE BREAK--- App The the C italic from for 2 mark calcu statis signi Resp 1. H 1a. F Exce Goo Abo Not Poo Tota Don (No Tota Tota 1b. F Exce Goo Abo Not Poo Tota Don (No Tota Tota WYSAC, U pendix A following tab City of Laram cized text rep m both the 20 2008. 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Ê 200 Freque ure llection. 200 Freque ure ump) service 200 Freque ure Wyoming 08 ency 2008 V Perce 42 6 225 33 327 48 54 8 25 3 673 100 121 22 143 816 08 ency 2008 V Perce 215 28 320 42 154 20 49 6 19 2 757 100 40 19 59 816 es. 08 ency 2008 V Perce 134 18 328 45 185 25 41 5 26 3 714 100 86 16 102 816 Valid ent 2006 Per 3 4 1 10 Valid ent 2006 Per 3 3 1 10 Valid ent 2006 Per 2 4 2 10 6 Valid rcent 5.3% 31.0% 45.3% 3.5% 4.9% 00.0% 6 Valid rcent 33.6% 39.7% 8.4% 5.1% 3.3% 00.0% 6 Valid rcent 21.0% 48.7% 23.2% 4.8% 2.2% 00.0% 18 2 8 2 7 2 C 11.7% 8.4% N Negative 2006 2008 9.0% 8.4% N Negative 2006 2008 9.3% 7.0% N Negative 2006 2008 City of Laramie 48.6% 45.3% Neutral / Avera 2006 2008 20.3% 18.4% Neutral / Avera 2006 2008 25.9% 23.2% Neutral / Avera 2006 2008 Survey, 2008 39. 36.3% Positive age 2006 20 70. 73.3% Positive age 2006 20 64. 69.7% Positive age 2006 20 43 e 08 e 008 e 008 ---PAGE BREAK--- 1i. S Exce Goo Abo Not Poo Tota Don (No Tota Tota 1j. S Exce Goo Abo Not Poo Tota Don (No Tota Tota 1k. S Exce Goo Abo Not Poo Tota Don (No Tota Tota WYSAC, U Street maint ellent od ut average so good r al Valid 't know / Not su answer) al Missing al Street cleani ellent od ut average so good r al Valid 't know / Not su answer) al Missing al Snow remov ellent od ut average so good r al Valid 't know / Not su answer) al Missing al University of W tenance and 200 Freque ure ing. Ê 200 Freque ure val on majo Ê 200 Freque ure Wyoming d repair. 08 ency 2008 V Perce 15 1 77 9 225 28 254 32 222 28 793 100 8 15 23 816 08 ency 2008 V Perce 48 6 200 26 348 45 113 14 61 7 770 100 24 22 46 816 r streets (no 08 ency 2008 V Perce 51 6 210 26 289 36 144 18 98 12 792 100 13 11 24 816 Valid ent 2006 Per 1 3 3 2 10 Valid ent 2006 Per 2 4 1 1 10 ot including Valid ent 2006 Per 3 3 1 1 10 6 Valid rcent 2.4% 1.9% 30.4% 31.0% 24.4% 00.0% 6 Valid rcent 4.8% 22.7% 44.5% 6.0% 1.9% 00.0% g residential 6 Valid rcent 6.6% 32.7% 35.2% 5.0% 0.5% 00.0% 5 2 27 2 25 2 C streets). 60.0% 5.4% N Negative 2006 2008 22.6% 7.9% N Negative 2006 2008 30.6% 5.5% N Negative 2006 2008 City of Laramie 28.4% 30.4% Neutral / Avera 2006 2008 45.2% 44.5% Neutral / Avera 2006 2008 36.5% 35.2% Neutral / Avera 2006 2008 Survey, 2008 11. 14.3% Positive age 2006 20 32. 27.5% Positive age 2006 20 32. 39.3% Positive age 2006 20 44 e 008 e 08 e 08 ---PAGE BREAK--- 1l. S Exce Goo Abo Not Poo Tota Don (No Tota Tota 1m. Exce Goo Abo Not Poo Tota Don (No Tota Tota 1n. W Exce Goo Abo Not Poo Tota Don (No Tota Tota WYSAC, U Storm draina ellent od ut average so good r al Valid 't know / Not su answer) al Missing al Sewer servi ellent od ut average so good r al Valid 't know / Not su answer) al Missing al Water quali ellent od ut average so good r al Valid 't know / Not su answer) al Missing al University of W age. Ê 200 Freque ure ices. 200 Freque ure ity. 200 Freque ure Wyoming 08 ency 2008 V Perce 20 2 127 16 269 35 217 28 121 16 754 100 51 11 62 816 08 ency 2008 V Perce 42 6 207 29 316 45 95 13 40 5 700 100 101 15 116 816 08 ency 2008 V Perce 224 28 337 43 173 22 33 4 10 1 777 100 25 14 39 816 Valid ent 2006 Per 2 4 2 1 10 Valid ent 2006 Per 3 4 1 10 Valid ent 2006 Per 2 4 2 10 6 Valid rcent 2.9% 21.7% 40.0% 22.7% 2.7% 00.0% 6 Valid rcent 5.8% 32.7% 45.1% 1.3% 5.2% 00.0% 6 Valid rcent 26.4% 44.6% 21.2% 5.0% 2.8% 00.0% 3 2 16 2 7 2 C 44.8% 5.4% N Negative 2006 2008 19.3% 6.5% N Negative 2006 2008 5.5% 7.8% N Negative 2006 2008 City of Laramie 35.7% 40.0% Neutral / Avera 2006 2008 45.1% 45.1% Neutral / Avera 2006 2008 22.3% 21.2% Neutral / Avera 2006 2008 Survey, 2008 19. 24.6% Positive age 2006 20 35. 38.5% Positive age 2006 20 72. 71.0% Positive age 2006 20 45 e 008 e 008 e 008 ---PAGE BREAK--- 1o. R Exce Goo Abo Not Poo Tota Don (No Tota Tota 1p. P Exce Goo Abo Not Poo Tota Don (No Tota Tota 1q. R Exce Goo Abo Not Poo Tota Don (No Tota Tota WYSAC, U Reliability o ellent od ut average so good r al Valid 't know / Not su answer) al Missing al Park appear ellent od ut average so good r al Valid 't know / Not su answer) al Missing al Recreation ellent od ut average so good r al Valid 't know / Not su answer) al Missing al University of W of water flow 200 Freque ure rance/main 200 Freque ure programs. 200 Freque ure Wyoming w. 08 ency 2008 V Perce 199 26 339 44 155 20 47 6 17 2 757 100 40 19 59 816 ntenance. 08 ency 2008 V Perce 283 35 372 47 119 15 14 1 3 791 100 10 15 25 816 08 ency 2008 V Perce 183 26 329 46 158 22 26 3 8 1 704 100 89 23 112 816 Valid ent 2006 Per 2 4 1 10 Valid ent 2006 Per 3 4 1 10 Valid ent 2006 Per 2 4 2 10 6 Valid rcent 24.0% 47.5% 9.8% 6.1% 2.6% 00.0% 6 Valid rcent 37.4% 46.8% 4.0% 1.4% 00.0% 6 Valid rcent 25.9% 46.5% 22.6% 3.4% 1.6% 00.0% 8 2 1 2 5 2 C 8.4% 8.7% N Negative 2006 2008 2.2% 1.9% N Negative 2006 2008 4.8% 5.0% N Negative 2006 2008 City of Laramie 20.5% 19.8% Neutral / Avera 2006 2008 15.0% 14.0% Neutral / Avera 2006 2008 22.4% 22.6% Neutral / Avera 2006 2008 Survey, 2008 71. 71.5% Positive age 2006 20 82. 84.2% Positive age 2006 20 72. 72.4% Positive age 2006 20 46 e 08 e 08 e 08 ---PAGE BREAK--- 1r. L Exce Goo Abo Not Poo Tota Don (No Tota Tota 1s. C Exce Goo Abo Not Poo Tota Don (No Tota Tota 1t. A Exce Goo Abo Not Poo Tota Don (No Tota Tota WYSAC, U Land use, pl ellent od ut average so good r al Valid 't know / Not su answer) al Missing al Code enforc ellent od ut average so good r al Valid 't know / Not su answer) al Missing al Animal cont ellent od ut average so good r al Valid 't know / Not su answer) al Missing al University of W lanning, zon 200 Freque ure cement (wee 200 Freque ure trol. 200 Freque ure Wyoming ning. 08 ency 2008 V Perce 12 1 107 16 247 37 168 25 125 19 659 100 131 26 157 816 eds, substan 08 ency 2008 V Perce 14 1 74 10 235 31 213 28 202 27 738 100 62 16 78 816 08 ency 2008 V Perce 67 9 233 32 288 39 75 10 63 8 726 100 62 28 90 816 Valid ent 2006 Per 1 3 2 2 10 ndard buildi Valid ent 2006 Per 3 2 2 10 Valid ent 2006 Per 3 3 10 6 Valid rcent 1.4% 4.9% 35.0% 26.6% 22.1% 00.0% ings, junk, e 6 Valid rcent 1.6% 9.0% 32.1% 27.7% 29.7% 00.0% 6 Valid rcent 8.0% 36.0% 38.8% 9.7% 7.5% 00.0% 48 2 57 2 17 2 C etc.). 44.5% 8.7% N Negative 2006 2008 56.3% 7.4% N Negative 2006 2008 19.0% 7.2% N Negative 2006 2008 City of Laramie 37.5% 35.0% Neutral / Avera 2006 2008 31.8% 32.1% Neutral / Avera 2006 2008 39.7% 38.8% Neutral / Avera 2006 2008 Survey, 2008 18. 16.3% Positive age 2006 20 11. 10.6% Positive age 2006 20 41. 44.0% Positive age 2006 20 47 e 008 e 008 e 08 ---PAGE BREAK--- 1u. B Exce Goo Abo Not Poo Tota Don (No Tota Tota 1v. A Exce Goo Abo Not Poo Tota Don (No Tota Tota 1w. Exce Goo Abo Not Poo Tota Don (No Tota Tota WYSAC, U Building pe ellent od ut average so good r al Valid 't know / Not su answer) al Missing al Access for d ellent od ut average so good r al Valid 't know / Not su answer) al Missing al Access for d ellent od ut average so good r al Valid 't know / Not su answer) al Missing al University of W ermit service 200 Freque ure disabled per 200 Freque ure disabled per 200 Freque ure Wyoming es. 08 ency 2008 V Perce 18 4 70 15 181 40 92 20 84 18 445 100 341 30 371 816 rsons to city 08 ency 2008 V Perce 64 9 260 39 272 41 34 5 23 3 653 100 149 14 163 816 rsons on pu 08 ency 2008 V Perce 53 7 253 36 273 39 69 10 41 6 689 100 114 13 127 816 Valid ent 2006 Per 1 3 2 1 10 y facilities, p Valid ent 2006 Per 1 4 3 10 ublic streets, Valid ent 2006 Per 3 3 1 10 6 Valid rcent 3.3% 9.3% 38.1% 20.4% 8.8% 00.0% parks, etc. 6 Valid rcent 0.2% 42.6% 38.7% 5.7% 2.8% 00.0% , sidewalks, 6 Valid rcent 8.9% 35.4% 39.0% 1.3% 5.4% 00.0% 39 2 8 2 16 2 C crosswalks 39.6% 9.2% N Negative 2006 2008 8.7% 8.5% N Negative 2006 2008 16.0% 6.7% N Negative 2006 2008 City of Laramie s, etc. 40.7% 38.1% Neutral / Avera 2006 2008 41.7% 38.7% Neutral / Avera 2006 2008 39.6% 39.0% Neutral / Avera 2006 2008 Survey, 2008 19. 22.6% Positive age 2006 20 49. 52.8% Positive age 2006 20 44. 44.3% Positive age 2006 20 48 e 008 e 008 e 08 ---PAGE BREAK--- 2. de In No To (N To WYSAC, U If you have partment of teraction in las o interaction in → (Skip to que otal Valid No answer) otal Police Public Works Parks & Recr Fire Community D Administratio Total Valid System Miss Total Missing Total 10.1% Administration University of W e interacted f your MOS st 12 months last 12 months estion s reation Development on ing g 4.6% Community Developmen n Wyoming with a City T RECENT Freq s Fre 7.1% Fire t of Laramie T interactio quency Va Per 367 5 306 4 673 1 143 816 equency V Pe 122 81 84 26 17 37 367 143 449 816 22.9% Parks & Recreatio departmen n: alid rcent 54.5% 45.5% 00.% Valid ercent 33.2% 22.1% 22.9% 7.1% 4.6% 10.1% 100.0% Inte 22.1% Public Wo on C nt in the pas 45.5% eraction in last 12 33.2% Police orks City of Laramie t 12 months No i 2 months % 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% e Survey, 2008 s, please ide 54.5% nteraction in last months 49 entify the 12 ---PAGE BREAK--- WYSAC, University of Wyoming City of Laramie Survey, 2008 50 2a. For that most recent interaction with a City department, please rate the personnel that you interacted with on the following: 2a1 – 2a4. Police: Knowledge, Responsiveness, Courtesy, Overall Impression Police Department Knowledge Responsiveness Courtesy Overall Impression Excellent 39.8% 44.2% 51.2% 43.0% Good 37.3% 30.0% 28.1% 29.8% About average 11.0% 10.0% 9.1% 11.6% Not so good 5.9% 5.8% 4.1% 7.4% Poor 5.9% 10.0% 7.4% 8.3% Total Valid (Count) (118) 100.0% (120) 100.0% (121) 100.0% (121) 100.0% Don't know / Not sure 2 0 0 0 (No answer) 2 2 1 1 System Missing 694 694 694 694 Total Missing 698 696 695 695 Total 816 816 816 816 2a1 – 2a4. Fire: Knowledge, Responsiveness, Courtesy, Overall Impression Fire Department Knowledge Responsiveness Courtesy Overall Impression Excellent 61.5% 76.9% 80.8% 73.1% Good 30.8% 15.4% 11.5% 19.2% About average 7.7% 7.7% 3.8% 3.8% Not so good 3.8% Poor 3.8% Total Valid (Count) (26) 100.0% (26) 100.0% (26) 100.0% (26) 100.0% Don't know / Not sure 0 0 0 0 (No answer) 0 0 0 0 System Missing 790 790 790 790 Total Missing 790 790 790 790 Total 816 816 816 816 ---PAGE BREAK--- WYSAC, University of Wyoming City of Laramie Survey, 2008 51 2a1 – 2a4. Public Works: Knowledge, Responsiveness, Courtesy, Overall Impression Public Works Knowledge Responsiveness Courtesy Overall Impression Excellent 21.8% 25.3% 28.8% 24.1% Good 47.4% 36.7% 43.8% 38.0% About average 15.4% 20.3% 16.3% 20.3% Not so good 14.1% 10.1% 8.8% 11.4% Poor 1.3% 7.6% 2.5% 6.3% Total Valid (Count) (78) 100.0% (79) 100.0% (80) 100.0% (79) 100.0% Don't know / Not sure 3 1 0 0 (No answer) 0 1 1 2 System Missing 735 735 735 735 Total Missing 738 737 736 737 Total 816 816 816 816 2a1 – 2a4. Community Development: Knowledge, Responsiveness, Courtesy, Overall Impression Community Development Knowledge Responsiveness Courtesy Overall Impression Excellent 29.4% 12.5% 29.4% 11.8% Good 11.8% 25.0% 35.3% 35.3% About average 29.4% 6.3% 11.8% 17.6% Not so good 11.8% 37.5% 11.8% 17.6% Poor 17.6% 18.8% 11.8% 17.6% Total Valid (Count) (17) 100.0% (16) 100.0% (17) 100.0% (17) 100.0% Don't know / Not sure 0 1 0 0 (No answer) 0 0 0 0 System Missing 799 799 799 799 Total Missing 799 800 799 799 Total 816 816 816 816 ---PAGE BREAK--- 2a1 – Par Exce Goo Abo Not Poo Tota Don (No Syst Tota Tota 2a1 – Ad Exce Goo Abo Not Poo Tota Don (No Syst Tota Tota 3. D Ren Own Othe Tota (No Tota Tota WYSAC, U – 2a4. Park rks & Recr ellent od ut average so good r al Valid (Count 't know / Not su answer) tem Missing al Missing al – 2a4. 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A Not Mino Mod Majo Tota Don (No Tota Tota WYSAC, U How do you f Crime. a problem or problem derate problem or problem al Valid 't know / Not su answer) al Missing al Illegal drug a problem or problem derate problem or problem al Valid 't know / Not su answer) al Missing al Alcohol-rela a problem or problem derate problem or problem al Valid 't know / Not su answer) al Missing al University of W feel about th 2008 Freque ure g use. 200 Freque ure ated offense 200 Freque ure Wyoming he following 8 ncy 2008 V Perce 48 6 305 40 365 48 31 4 749 100 51 16 67 816 08 ency 2008 V Perce 15 2 122 17 304 44 244 35 685 100 107 24 131 816 es. 08 ency 2008 V Perce 18 2 101 14 275 38 317 44 711 100 64 41 105 816 g issues as t alid ent 2006 Per 3 4 10 Valid ent 2006 Per 1 4 3 10 Valid ent 2006 Per 1 3 4 10 they relate to 6 Valid rcent 5.5% 38.7% 49.2% 6.5% 00.0% 6 Valid rcent 3.3% 7.0% 42.1% 37.6% 00.0% 6 Valid rcent 2.1% 2.8% 37.5% 47.5% 00.0% 6 Ma 2 37 Ma 2 47 Ma 2 C o the City o 4.1% 6.5% Mo ajor problem 006 2008 35.6% 4 7.6% Mo ajor problem 006 2008 44.6% 3 7.5% Mo ajor problem 006 2008 City of Laramie of Laramie? 48.7% 49.2% oderate problem 2006 2008 44.4% 42.1% derate problem 2006 2008 38.7% 37.5% derate problem 2006 2008 Survey, 2008 40.7% 38.7% Minor problem 2006 2008 17.8% 17.0% Minor problem 2006 2008 14.2% 12.8% Minor problem 2006 2008 53 6.4% 5.5% Not a problem 2006 2008 2.2% 3.3% Not a problem 2006 2008 2.5% 2.1% Not a problem 2006 2008 ---PAGE BREAK--- 4d. Not Mino Mod Majo Tota Don (No Tota Tota 4e. N Not Mino Mod Majo Tota Don (No Tota Tota 4f. S Not Mino Mod Majo Tota Don (No Tota Tota WYSAC, U Loud vehicl a problem or problem derate problem or problem al Valid 't know / Not su answer) al Missing al Nuisances ( a problem or problem derate problem or problem al Valid 't know / Not su answer) al Missing al Speeding an a problem or problem derate problem or problem al Valid 't know / Not su answer) al Missing al University of W les. Ê 200 Freque ure (rundown b 200 Freque ure nd traffic vio Ê 200 Freque ure Wyoming 08 ency 2008 V Perce 53 7 201 26 284 37 218 28 756 100 29 31 60 816 buildings, w 08 ency 2008 V Perce 45 5 227 29 277 36 219 28 768 100 29 19 48 816 olations. 08 ency 2008 V Perce 51 6 190 25 292 38 223 29 756 100 34 26 60 816 Valid ent 2006 Per 2 3 3 10 eeds, junk v Valid ent 2006 Per 2 3 2 10 Valid ent 2006 Per 2 3 3 10 6 Valid rcent 5.5% 24.4% 34.9% 35.2% 00.0% vehicles). 6 Valid rcent 6.9% 28.2% 36.2% 28.7% 00.0% 6 Valid rcent 5.5% 22.4% 36.0% 36.0% 00.0% 35 Ma 2 28 Ma 2 36 Ma 2 C 28.8% 3 5.2% Mo ajor problem 006 2008 28.5% 3 8.7% Mo ajor problem 006 2008 29.5% 3 6.0% Mo ajor problem 006 2008 City of Laramie 37.6% 34.9% derate problem 2006 2008 36.1% 36.2% derate problem 2006 2008 38.6% 36.0% derate problem 2006 2008 Survey, 2008 26.6% 24.4% Minor problem 2006 2008 29.6% 28.2% Minor problem 2006 2008 25.1% 22.4% Minor problem 2006 2008 54 7.0% 5.5% Not a problem 2006 2008 5.9% 6.9% Not a problem 2006 2008 6.7% 5.5% Not a problem 2006 2008 ---PAGE BREAK--- 4g. Not Mino Mod Majo Tota Don (No Tota Tota 4h. Not Mino Mod Majo Tota Don (No Tota Tota 4i. U Not Mino Mod Majo Tota Don (No Tota Tota WYSAC, U Parking ava a problem or problem derate problem or problem al Valid 't know / Not su answer) al Missing al Parking ava a problem or problem derate problem or problem al Valid 't know / Not su answer) al Missing al Unsupervise a problem or problem derate problem or problem al Valid 't know / Not su answer) al Missing al University of W ailability aro 200 Freque ure ailability dow 200 Freque ure ed youth. 200 Freque ure Wyoming ound UW ca 08 ency 2008 V Perce 38 5 56 7 137 18 504 68 735 100 62 19 81 816 wntown. 08 ency 2008 V Perce 119 15 224 28 273 35 164 21 780 100 18 18 36 816 08 ency 2008 V Perce 91 14 256 40 210 33 71 11 628 100 168 20 188 816 ampus. 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V Not Mino Mod Majo Tota Don (No Tota Tota WYSAC, U Litter and de a problem or problem derate problem or problem al Valid 't know / Not su answer) al Missing al Public distu a problem or problem derate problem or problem al Valid 't know / Not su answer) al Missing al Vandalism ( a problem or problem derate problem or problem al Valid 't know / Not su answer) al Missing al University of W ebris. Ê 200 Freque ure urbances (lo Ê 200 Freque ure (graffiti, bro Freque ure Wyoming 08 ency 2008 V Perce 85 11 349 45 246 32 89 11 769 100 30 17 47 816 oud music, p 08 ency 2008 V Perce 128 17 340 46 193 26 66 9 727 100 70 19 89 816 oken window ency 2008 V Perce 59 7 306 40 292 38 96 12 753 100 46 17 63 816 Valid ent 2006 Per 4 3 1 10 parties, etc. Valid ent 2006 Per 1 4 3 1 10 ws, etc.) Valid ent 6 Valid rcent 8.2% 41.3% 36.6% 3.9% 00.0% 6 Valid rcent 4.6% 42.8% 30.8% 1.8% 00.0% 13 Ma 2 11 Ma 2 Ma C 11.6% 3 3.9% Mo ajor problem 006 2008 9.1% 3 1.8% Mo ajor problem 006 2008 12.7% Mo ajor problem City of Laramie 32.0% 36.6% derate problem 2006 2008 26.5% 30.8% derate problem 2006 2008 38.8% derate problem Survey, 2008 45.4% 41.3% Minor problem 2006 2008 46.8% 42.8% Minor problem 2006 2008 40.6% Minor problem 56 11.1% 8.2% Not a problem 2006 2008 17.6% 14.6% Not a problem 2006 2008 7.8% Not a problem ---PAGE BREAK--- 4m. Not Mino Mod Majo Tota Don (No Tota Tota 5. H 5a. 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Valid ent 2006 Per 8 1 10 Valid ent 2006 Per 5 3 10 e living in a 6 Valid rcent 21.8% 35.9% 24.7% 7.6% 00.0% 6 Valid rcent 87.3% 1.6% 00.0% 6 Valid rcent 55.6% 35.6% 7.4% 1.4% 00.0% 17 Ma 2 0 No 2 1 No 2 C single home 13.1% 2 7.6% Mo ajor problem 006 2008 0.0% 0.3% So ot safe at all 2006 2008 0.5% 1.4% Som ot safe at all 006 2008 City of Laramie e or apartm 18.7% 24.7% derate problem 2006 2008 0.5% 0.9% mewhat unsafe 2006 2008 5.1% 7.4% mewhat unsafe 2006 2008 Survey, 2008 ent). 38.9% 35.9% Minor problem 2006 2008 13.4% 11.6% Somewhat safe 2006 2008 35.7% 35.6% Somewhat safe 2006 2008 57 29.4% 21.8% Not a problem 2006 2008 86.1% 87.3% Very safe 2006 2008 58.7% 55.6% Very safe 2006 2008 ---PAGE BREAK--- 5c. I Very Som Som Not Tota Don (No Tota Tota 5d. Very Som Som Not Tota Don (No Tota Tota 5e. 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No 2 No No C 1.4% ot a priority 006 2008 12.4% ot a priority 11.5% ot a priority City of Laramie 9.6% M Low priority 2006 2008 38.5% M Low priority 22.4% M Low priority Survey, 2008 34.4% Moderate priority 2006 2008 37.5% Moderate priority 38.0% Moderate priority 71 54.6% High priority 2006 2008 11.7% High priority 28.1% High priority ---PAGE BREAK--- 13. W Full- Part Stud Reti Not time Tota (No Tota Tota 14. H Less 2 – 5 6 – 1 11 – More Tota (No Tota Tota WYSAC, U What is your -time employed -time employed dent red employed at th e al Valid answer) al Missing al How long ha s than 2 years 5 years 10 years – 20 years e than 20 years al Valid answer) al Missing al University of W r employme 200 Freque d d his ave you live Ê 200 Freque s Wyoming ent status? (M 08 ency 2008 V Perce 464 57 82 10 21 2 262 32 23 2 808 8 8 816 d in Larami 08 ency 2008 V Perce 23 2 60 7 84 10 116 14 523 64 806 100 10 10 816 Mark all that Valid ent 2006 Per 7.4% 5 0.1% 2.6% 2.4% 3 2.8% ie? 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I 18 – 25 – 35 – 45 – 55 – 65 – 75 y Tota (No Tota Tota 1 WYSAC, U n what cate – 24 years – 34 years – 44 years – 54 years – 64 years – 74 years years or older al Valid answer) al Missing al 1.5% 2.5% 18–24 years 2006 2008 University of W egory is your Ê 2 Fre 5.1% 8.4% 25–34 years 2006 2008 Wyoming r age? 2008 equency 200 Pe 12 41 101 185 232 135 97 803 1 13 13 816 12.6% 14.0% 35–44 years 2006 2008 8 Valid ercent 20 1.5% 5.1% 12.6% 23.0% 28.9% 16.8% 12.1% 100.0% 23.0% 23.1% 45–54 years 2006 2008 006 Valid Percent 2.5% 8.4% 14.0% 23.1% 24.2% 14.9% 13.0% 100.0% 28.9% 24.2% 55–64 year 2006 2008 C 16.8 % 14.9% 65–74 yea rs 8 2006 200 City of Laramie 12 8% 13.0% 75 years or ars 08 2006 2 Survey, 2008 2.1% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% r older 2008 73 ---PAGE BREAK--- 16. W 12th High Som Asso Bach Grad Tota (No Tota Tota 17. A Lara 12 WYSAC, U What is the h Grade or less, h school diplom me college, no d ociate's degree helor's degree duate degree o al Valid answer) al Missing al Are there any amie focus o ¾ See A 1.9% 2.5% 2th Grade or less, no diploma 2006 2008 University of W highest deg no diploma ma or equivalen degree e or vocational/ or professional y major imp on? Appendix B.2 12.0 11.9% High school diplom equivalent 2006 200 Wyoming gree or level nt /technical degre degree provements, 2 for complet 0% 18.3% Some college ma or 2006 8 of educatio 2008 Frequen ee , projects, is te text listing 17.9% 5.1 Assoc vocat e, no degree 200 2008 n you have 8 ncy 2008 V Perce 15 1 96 12 143 17 64 8 204 25 276 34 798 100 18 18 816 ssues, or ini gs. 8.0% 1% ciate's degree or tional/technical degree 06 2008 C attained? 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(Other specified.) • City offices. • I do business with the city. • I work for the city. • League of Women Voters. • Letters to the editor and council meetings. • Mailed brochures or newsletter tags hung in the door. • Public records. • Senior Lyceum. • University of Wyoming RSO’s that work with community organizations. ---PAGE BREAK--- WYSAC, University of Wyoming City of Laramie Survey, 2008 76 Appendix B.2. Open-ended responses to Question 17. Question 17: Are there any Major improvements, projects, issues, or initiatives that you would like to see the City of Laramie focus on? • [Bring in] department stores (such as, Sears, Kohls, and Penney’s), so I don’t have to order on the internet or go out of town. • [Construct a] 30th Street connection to I-80. • A publically-owned wind-power utility. We have plenty of wind and plenty of land; so why not use it? Clean and cheap power for all! We could be a model for small towns across the plains. Please raise my taxes to pay for it! • Accountability of property by homeowners! • Actually implement the Comprehensive Plan, [and] complete the greenbelt. • Address the reckless driving and alcohol abuse issues that affect all of Laramie because of University of Wyoming and WyoTech students. • Alley maintenance is very weak. • Allow county residents to have a vote and say in city issues since county residents have no options but use all city facilities. • Allow more outside business into Laramie to help the economy. Pave the streets in West Laramie. • Animal control and enforcement. Tired of dealing with unleashed, barking, crap-depositing dogs. The city continues to turn its back on enforcing leash laws and animal violations of noise ordinances. Protect the aquifer, please! • Animal control has a very rude and unkind staff! • Appearance and cleanliness. • Attract clean, long term businesses to Laramie. • Attract high quality retail stores like clothing, gifts, electronics, and furniture stores. • Automated trash system. • Beautification and more retail. • Beautification of entrances. Plant trees on main streets. Clean up all and enforce weedy yards and junky places. • Better enforcement of leash laws, higher availability of animal control officers, and ensure unobstructed sidewalks. • Better land use planning and guided development. Infill versus expan[sion] into county. Avoid encouraging any development, regardless of the impact or cost. • Better street lighting. • Bicycle and pedestrian safety via more pedestrian friendly lights, intersections, and enforcement. This will aid the environment and people with disabilities. • Bicycle lanes need to be painted. • Bicycling and curbside compost pick up. Appliance and furniture disposal. • Bike paths that connect more neighborhoods to town, especially bike paths that are separate from roads with vehicular traffic. • Bring closure to the Fox Theater problem and consider ways by which the city could avoid similar problems in the future. • Bring more business to town. Improve entertainment opportunities. • Build the new Harney viaduct. Stop wasting money on studies. Major colleges need parking garages; check out Colorado State University. • Building the Harney Street bridge and some maintenance on roads. • Business park development. Continue working with University of Wyoming for student parking. Stay with future plan for Laramie growth. • Business recruitment. ---PAGE BREAK--- WYSAC, University of Wyoming City of Laramie Survey, 2008 77 • Campers, motor homes, and fifth wheel homes stored on city streets for weeks and months: are these in violation of city ordinances? Weeds and junk in alleys not controlled. Building and construction in backyards without permit. Construction in backyard that started in 2007 and still not finished. Alleys are full of potholes. City is requested to fix and repair, [but] after months no response from City crew. Street potholes not repaired. Streets are good condition, then a water or sewer line is cut across and the repair is of poor quality and consequently ends up being a very rough area (such as, 9th Street about one block North of Harney, and also [around] 17th and Reynolds.) A pothole about 13th or 14th and East Curtis Street since summer 2008. Sidewalks and curbs and gutters in some areas are in very poor condition. • Can Laramie go more green? Bus system, electric cars, bike lanes, efficient city offices, and recycling. I see Davis, California, as a good model for us. Similar size, industries, and employers. • Casper Aquifer protection and upgrading water distribution systems. Our pipes are a mess. • Certain streets, such as wide-open East Harney, could have more relaxed speed limits. Thirty miles-per-hour [limits] on such streets seem like speed traps for everyone and not for safety. • Change Sunday landfill hours back to afternoon. Have posted street cleaning schedule so residential cars can be moved for more effective cleaning. • Change your minds about the location of the Clark Street viaduct. Leave it where it is. Demolish it and start over, right where it is. • Cheaper Recreation Center passes and more mosquito control. • City Council to get busy on major problems like the old Fox Theater, traffic congestion, and our infrastructure. City needs to regain control of hospital and University of Wyoming as far as parking issues. • City needs to clean city property. • City needs automated trash collection. My neighborhood streets, sidewalks, sewer, and water lines are all in serious need of replacement. We also need new and larger storm sewer capacity. Continue to revitalize downtown and offer tax incentives to business to rent and renovate second floor apartments. • City needs to remember it represents the citizens of Laramie and should not act like an arm of the university. Also, the way the city has dealt with City Managers’ contracts is deplorable and unnecessarily costly. • City should use local expertise instead of hiring outside consultants. The University of Wyoming has a lot of experts. • City streets and infrastructure. • City streets, Reynolds especially! City sewer repair and street repair fixed in a timely fashion. • Clark Street overpass should accommodate cars, light trucks, bicycles, and pedestrians. Another route (possibly Harney Street) should also cross the tracks. Crack down on loud mufflers, spinning wheels, and speeding in town. • Clark Street viaduct should be open to emergency vehicles only. I believe the city needs to focus on budget cuts on unnecessary items. The street sweeper should be used on streets that are clear of cars. Most cities post no parking signs when they want to sweep. That way the streets can be swept properly and efficiently. I would like to see the city of Laramie adopt that procedure. It would be more cost effective to sweep the streets in that manner. • Clark Street viaduct should have been replaced when state and federal funding was available. Now we have another Fox Theater due to lack of planning by the City. • Clark Street viaduct. • Clean entry ways into Laramie especially from South 287. • Clean leaves from storm drains regularly. • Clean up junk that is visible on Route 287 on south entry to city. • Clean up of entrance into Laramie; beautification and cleanup, especially on 287 South. • Clean up of the trashy places at all entrances to Laramie. They make us look like a slum town. • Clean up Wal-Mart. • Cleaning the streets, "fixing" Laramie up, and building nicer-looking buildings. • Cleaning up the area between the Pilot truck stop and the Laramie River. It is an eyesore and trashy. • Cleaning up, removing, or rehabilitating abandoned facilities (scrap and run down) along 287, downtown area, I- 80, and Curtis intersection. Pave streets in West Laramie. Also, the West Laramie fire station. • Close the Recreation Center. You can’t afford the expense of operating and maintaining it while the water and sewer systems continually break down. • Code enforcement and nuisance enforcement. ---PAGE BREAK--- WYSAC, University of Wyoming City of Laramie Survey, 2008 78 • Communication. It is very difficult to get answers that last more than a week. Urgency in particular. • Complete neglect of certain alleys throughout the city. Pretty hard to take when so much is spent on trees, etc. • Composting green waste at the landfill. Connecting greenbelt pathways around city. • Consider plowing deep snow on housing areas to the center of the street as opposed to the sides so parked cars can be gotten out without much scooping. • Continue on aquifer protection. • Continued intensive collaboration with county rezoning, beautification, ugly sprawl, preservation of open space, environmental protection, and a bike trail to Centennial separate from Highway 130. • Convert certain streets into bike paths. Reduce traffic and car use by any means. Stop the sprawl. • Could the city work with the University of Wyoming and WyoTech to discourage new students from being so noisy? • Council’s poor attitude to individual rights and freedom. • Create City electric utility and invest in windmills immediately outside of town to establish us as a wind power city. • Curb cuts. Perform street repairs before August 5th so they’re done when majority of students return. • Curb noise and speed as well as emissions from some high-tech vehicles. • Curb side recycling, effort by city to reduce CO2 into atmosphere, and encourage living in the city rather than taking wildlife habitat surrounding the city. • Curbside recycling and more bike paths. Help the library with funding. Continue the improvements to recreational facilities and parks. Strong fire department and police department funding. • Curbside recycling and paving streets in West Laramie. • Curbside recycling and street maintenance. • Curbside recycling would be an excellent incentive for people to recycle rather than dispose of recyclables in the garbage. • Curbside recycling. • Cutting all frivolous expenses and cutting the city budget. The third fire station is absolutely unnecessary. There were only 39 fires all of last year. The benefits gained versus the cost of new station are unjustifiable. The viaduct should be on Grand Avenue. Any other location is inferior. • Destruction and clean up of the Fox Theater property is the highest priority. To let a health hazard stand is criminal. Enforcement of timeline on unmoved vehicles on city streets. • Do not allow RV’s and motor homes in driveways or yards. The same for boats, trailers, and old cars. There are places that store these. • Do not retain or assume any responsibility for the Clark Street viaduct! We cannot afford to rebuild or maintain the bridge safely. • Do something about the viaduct! I live near it and I watch concrete fall off it every day. Alcohol and drugs are a problem in this town. • Dog park. The fenced area in Optimist Park is a disgrace. Stop the frequent and repetitious (Fox Theater) studies. • Don’t change the garbage collection. • Don’t compare Laramie with Cheyenne or Fort Collins. Don’t spend money we don’t have. Live within a budget. • Don’t need twice per week residential garbage pickup. No city I have lived in has ever had a twice a week residential pickup. One is plenty. Expand recycling to include green glass, paper, cardboard (cereal boxes, etc.), tetra packs, and Styrofoam. • Don’t spend beyond our needs. • Downtown developments, public art, recycling, and wind and solar [power]. • Downtown pedestrians’ area! Improve sidewalks. Better recycling, including green glass, etc. • Downtown plaza project and enforcing residential weed control. • Drainage in West Laramie and parking of students. I believe this to be a health and cleanliness issue for the whole city along with the West Laramie fire station. • Drainage in West Laramie. New fire station. Paving streets; the dust is not good for health and is dirty. • Economic developments. Extend the greenbelt along Spring Creek to the Recreation Center. [Raze] the Fox Theater and maintain the Clark Street viaduct for non-vehicular traffic. Code enforcement and permit department needs to remember that the local businesses pay the taxes that pay their salaries. ---PAGE BREAK--- WYSAC, University of Wyoming City of Laramie Survey, 2008 79 • Elimination of the ward systems for election of City Council members. • Encourage the newspaper to assign more reporter coverage of city operation and decision making. • Enforce barking dog ordinances. Presently, the burden of proof is on complainant even though the police witness the barking dog. They give complainant a log sheet to fill out as a placebo and no action is ever taken against barking dogs. • Enforce higher standards on planning and architectural control of downtown, commercial districts, city gateways, residential subdivisions, etc. • Enforce laws, rules, and regulations for nuisances like Sundown property, junk, and junk vehicles. • Enforce leash laws, especially in city parks. Also, enforce city park walkways where it says "no bicycles allowed." Enforce laws for vehicle speed, and [there are] no noise control devices in use. • Enforce removal of eyesores on private property such as the pile of lumber beside US 287, unusable cars, household debris, and junk, which reflects badly on the City of Laramie as a whole. • Enforcement of dogs in yards away from sidewalks so while walking they can’t get to you by reaching over the fence and barking in your ear. Especially the large breeds of dogs! • Enforcement of existing codes. The codes are enforced only if a citizen complains. Why add new codes if they will only be enforced by a complaint? Most people do not want to file a complaint about a neighbor but wishes the codes were enforced. • Enforcement of noise ordinances with all of the excessive, modified exhaust and vehicle noise! • Enforcement of traffic laws. Traffic cameras would pay for themselves if installed for speeding, running of red lights and stop signs. Enforcement of all city ordinances and laws; it is ridiculous to have laws if they are enforced on a complaint-only basis. Mandatory curbside recycling; Laramie needs to set an example for the rest of Wyoming on being green. • Enforcing building codes. [Name removed] is allowed to break building codes. No enforcements. • Enforcing no motorized law on special land east of 30th Street. Purchase of access land on private property east of 30th to access Happy Jack via bicycle, hiking, and horseback non-motorized). Ability to recycle green glass. • Establish an eastside dog park and off-leash dog park. • Everything is good or better here except for the resolution of the Clark Street bridge problem. • Excellent management. • Except for one council member, the present council has no idea what it is doing. For example, management of Monolith Ranch. What a farce, they are so sad! Too much of a buddy system, and must we all become LDS? • Expand greenbelt now, not in tiny half mile spurts. • Expand greenbelt; fewer traffic signals and more roundabouts. Improve water mains to reduce breakage. Better collaboration between organizations. • Expanding the businesses. More shopping and more kid-activity places. There isn’t much for a family with kids to do. • Expanding the city’s bike path around the city as shown in the plans. The greenbelt should be an extremely high priority. Maintaining infrastructure and street maintenance should be a very high priority. If the sales tax fails, money should be allocated for this purpose. Protecting Laramie’s environment should be a high priority. • Expanding the city’s bike paths. • Expansion of bike lanes within the city. • Expansion of city’s bike paths and greenbelt. Acquire right-of-way easement access from Indian Hills across Warren livestock land to national forest. A twelve foot wide trail will do. • Extend Bill Nye Avenue east from 19th to Whitman Street. • Extending the life of the landfill with recycling and composting. Tax enhancement financing to help enhance downtown. • Family center programs to enrich family cohesiveness. • Fewer police. Our children are harassed. Focus on infrastructure and amenities. Seriously look at the data on how many police, sheriffs, etc., other communities have [that are] our size; it’s ridiculous. • Fewer police. We don’t need them all over us all the time. Street maintenance. Some of the residential streets are very bad. Fewer police. • Finding a way to get some tax base from [the] university to help with services. ---PAGE BREAK--- WYSAC, University of Wyoming City of Laramie Survey, 2008 80 • Finish building in one area before starting in another one. Enforce codes for landscaping, empty lots, snow removal, and (long-term) campers on streets. • Fire protection and streets are not just my priorities. They should be everyone’s priorities. • Fire station Infrastructure; not the purchase of Clark Street viaduct. • Fire station • Firehouse in West Laramie and common sense on water issues. • Fix all that’s broken before expanding into new areas and tying into broken and unfixed items such as water, sewer, and drainage. • Fix the curbs. It’s very dangerous at night with uneven curbs and if there isn’t room for bikes on the streets. • Fix the infrastructure! Stop spending our tax dollars on non-profits, beautification, planning (consultants) and get back to the basics! Streets, infrastructure, police (adequate funding), fire (more than adequate funding), and parks! Handle this first then look at the other things that are too high a priority at this time. • Fix the streets, pave West Laramie, and fix the Clark Street bridge. • Fix the streets. • Fix the streets. Water in the downtown area, upgrade, etc. • Fix the uneven manhole covers on most streets. • Fixing Laramie’s streets. It does no good to beautify our downtown area when our streets leading there are an embarrassment to drive on and for visitors to drive on as well. • Fixing some holes in streets where needed. • Fixing the pot holes all over town. • Focus on quality of life here, rather than growth. Enhancement of small, local businesses rather than chains and Wal-Marts. • Focus on replacing water and sewer systems. • Follow up on weeds and trash in yards. • Fox Theater abatement. Tear down Clark Street bridge when new one is built. • Fox Theater and streets. • Fox Theater removal. To discontinue the use of all vibration compactors on streets and other vital areas within the city. • Free parking and protection for residents around the university. Beautification of city, and especially into Laramie. South entrance from 287 is ugly and a junk pile. • Friendly, cooperative, caring, synergistic, maintenance of prairie and mountain views. Community-friendly building and development design. • Funding of Lincoln Community Center improvements for yard and building. • Garbage collection based upon volume, not flat rate. • Garbage collection is ridiculous! Staff are disrespectful, messy, and unprofessional in completion of their jobs. • Get back to what a city should do. Provide city services and not all of the other things you are involved in. • Get bike paths that have been promised for so long. Better restaurants needed. Winter ice buildup is terrible, and street is too crowded. Problems with kids in the park after dark: they vandalize and are out of control. • Get the animal control officers to enforce leash laws and dog feces clean up. Monitor WyoTech traffic for excessive noise and violations. These idiots are killing our neighborhood. Thank you. • Get the University of Wyoming and WyoTech students under control. They are a public nuisance. • Get the viaduct built and stop wasteful spending on maintenance, like paving only to tear it up soon or have a poor job done. Fix water leaks several times. • Getting Harney viaduct constructed, West Laramie paved, and water and sewer pipes maintained or replaced. Streets maintained better. • Giving perks to the residents not just the University of Wyoming student body. • Go back to basic infrastructure. Stop spending money on downtown beautification projects, freeze wages and hiring of city employees, and prepare for bad economic years to come in the future. No more consultants! Less City Council interference with city employees and let them do their jobs! ---PAGE BREAK--- WYSAC, University of Wyoming City of Laramie Survey, 2008 81 • Go to elected mayor instead of city mayor. Reduce garbage collection to once a week. Reduce percents (five suggested). Analyze the need for at least three positions, assistant to manager or ordinance management and the day to day activities. It is very difficult to discuss, but the city collects large sums of tax from citizens and allocates it to welfare agencies. The question is; should it be legal? All agencies have methods of collecting funds. Also, all citizens should have the privilege of allocating their welfare where they wish. Certainly, welfare should be a personal gift not a city tax on its citizens. • Grading alleys. Mine is terrible. • Graffiti abatement. Control downtown vandalism when bars close. • Grand Avenue is an embarrassment to Laramie. It should be a high priority to redo the street. • Greenbelt bike path development on east side of town. Safe way to travel Grand from east of town. • Greenbelt, encouraging business growth, and follow through on development project completion (much development seems to never be finished or abandoned with cost-cutting). • Greenbelt, opening aquifer area for recreation, and open space not for home development. • Growth and development. Trash containers. • Harney Street viaduct is overdue. Infrastructure needs immediate and ongoing attention with strict replacement schedule. Storm drainage is mostly nonexistent in Laramie. West Laramie is the window through which many visitors see Laramie, thus improving West Laramie will improve our image. • Harney westbound should be two lanes. Rebuild Clark eastbound with two lanes as far as the viaduct goes. More turning lanes and arrows on traffic lights to keep traffic flowing. Teach WyoTech-ers how to drive. • Having Cedar Street in the 1664 in the city limits [sic], not on private property since we have Mitchell Street which is a city street. So, we could have some kind of help from police; instead we can’t do anything because it’s private property. We all pay taxes like the people in town. • Having stores in downtown that sell clothing and home furnishings, like department stores. Like Laramie had in the 1950’s through the 1980’s. • Having the old Fox Theater demolished with outside funds and money from former owners. Reduce the pigeon populations and crow populations in the city for public health reasons. You need an option to not maintain or rebuild Clark Street viaduct after Harney structure is built. • Help maintain Albany County Library. • Help with parking around the university. • Hold business owners responsible for the degradation of the downtown area. • Holes in the streets! Reynolds needs resurfaced. • Holes in the streets, Clark Street viaduct, and drinking water. • How much did this survey cost? We spend too much time and money thinking about what should be done without getting things done! • I am very concerned about the attitude of the Fire Chief and the use of fire fighters and fire fighter union in getting the 7 cent tax on the ballot to fire fighter union ranks. It should not be a priority obligation. • I appreciate the beautification of the entry into Laramie. The approval of all the apartments being built needs scaling back until the need is there. Also, the apartments along I-80 (Gateway) look like Monopoly row buildings. Why have they not had to landscape to at least soften the appearance? • I believe our city officials do a great job of managing our resources. Our services are well managed, responsible, and a real plus. The Recreation Center is wonderful. • I believe that the city’s top priority should be on infrastructure as related to sewer and water projects. • I believe that we have too many street cleaning machines and not enough snow removal equipment. The sweepers do no good! • I do not think the 7 cent tax was explained well or publicized well. We need it, but I feel the city government fails in this attempt. I still don’t understand the aquifer problem. Maybe we need some dog and pony shows throughout the wards of Laramie. And then there are the University of Wyoming students; many voted really uninformed about Laramie. • I don’t believe additional sales taxes should be voted in just to pay for poor management of existing funds! Haven’t we been asked to pay and keep paying for such projects? • I feel that the City of Laramie should allow more growth in the city to bring in a larger tax base. I also feel that maintaining the Clark Street bridge is a waste of money. ---PAGE BREAK--- WYSAC, University of Wyoming City of Laramie Survey, 2008 82 • I have called several times about the house on the corner of Gray’s Gable and [redacted]. The trees are overgrown and block the sidewalk and the view around the corner. It is dangerous and against the law. • I made the suggestion last year to please get some unmarked police vehicles out there to catch those speeding, driving through stop signs, and red stop lights. It is getting much worse than last year. • I own my mobile home, but rent the lot. I am located within city limits, but not on your map. We do not have city water, sewage, or trash collection. I do not think my landlord should be allowed to close this trailer park while making hundreds of thousands of dollars a month from the two other parks he owns. • I rarely miss watching meetings and I never, never hear any mention or concerns for Laramie’s senior community segment. • I really want to see curbside recycling and composting, and I think that it is very important to expand the greenbelt throughout Laramie to promote healthier living and to get people to ride their bikes instead of driving cars, especially with gas prices. I think more college students would ride their bikes instead of driving, which would cut down on the parking at the university. • I think curbside recycling would be great for the city and planet earth. I also think we should focus on the nuts and bolts of the city versus band shells at 1st and Grand. • I think Laramie should make a huge effort to repair or replace aging water and sewer lines. I don’t think any money should be used to maintain the Clark Street viaduct. It should be torn down once the Harney Street bridge is finished. Also, while some studies are needed, the City Council seems to do too many when it’s looking at tough decisions that cost a lot of money. • I think standards and inspection of rental property is very important. We have too many people living in substandard housing. • I think the city has an excellent garbage collection system. I hope the city keeps it that way, rather than changing it to something more costly and less efficient privatizing it). • I thought the area south of Wal-Mart was going to be low- to middle-income housing. But, $250,000 is not an affordable house even for a middle-class income. • I would like Clark Street available for West Laramie. I would use the bus if stops were available nearby and the schedule worked. • I would like the city to stop beating the "growth is better" drum and begin focusing on the security needs of fire and police protection, infrastructure maintenance and upgrades, sensible water and aquifer protection, and growth planning that honors Laramie’s and Wyoming’s heritage. • I would like to have a crosswalk at 14th and Harney. Many people going to and from the university cross there. We need traffic-calming measures on the streets around the university, or at least enforcement of speed limits. • I would like to see expansion of the bike paths and lanes. The paths to the Recreation Center should be a priority, as it was located away from most residential areas and children cannot get there on their own. • I would like to see junk, especially cars and trucks, removed from sight. Remove the Fox Theater immediately. City Council should get in gear and do something and move quickly. Yard septic does not work. • I would like to see more snow and ice removal on the side streets in residential areas during the winter months. • I would like to see our community aggressively solicit manufacturers to build in Laramie. We have a huge service industry but little else. Thank you. • I would like to see the police department moved back into the downtown, or close, so that they are not so isolated. • I would like to see this city cleaned up. There is too much trash in the streets and open spaces. • I would like to see West Laramie streets paved. I would also like curbside recycling and composting. • I would really like to see curbside recycling implemented! • I’ve lived in Laramie for 55 years and would like 1st Street paved from Park on down. • Improve Grand Avenue; there is no parking. Widen Ivinson Street and 9th around the university. Then angle parking on streets. • Improve the library. Even though it is a county library, Laramie is the county. The library needs help. It needs to be remodeled or have a new building. • Improving the city’s bike paths, especially near the university. • In my area we never hear or see the mosquito control, yet we pay like everyone else. If we are getting those services, please make it effective because, no, it isn’t. ---PAGE BREAK--- WYSAC, University of Wyoming City of Laramie Survey, 2008 83 • Increase enforcement to control underage drinking. Growth and development planning relative to attractiveness of city. Complete green/bike belt around city. • Increased recycling opportunities like a recycling facility. More bins around Laramie and more recycling options, plastic bottles, etc. Look into curbside option. • Infrastructure (such as water and sewer mains). • Infrastructure and services. Leave the county alone (outside city limits). Take care of your own problems; there are many. • Infrastructure and water and sewage pipes. • Infrastructure is the most important, in my opinion right now. • Infrastructure priority with use of existing funding before frills and studies. • Infrastructure should be top [priority]. Keeping our water supply safe, bringing in more environmental options, and cleaning up the messy areas before we do more bike paths. • Infrastructure! If Laramie is to grow, this must happen! • Infrastructure! The city should reprioritize to take care of infrastructure first, but at current funding levels. I want to see this become priority number one before they ask us for more money. • Infrastructure, diligent care of Casper Aquifer, West Laramie fire station, and residential streets. • Infrastructure, to the exclusion of "nice to do’s," like the Recreation Center. Every infrastructure project does not require the planning services of a consultant. • Infrastructure, west side fire, water, and planning. Recycling. Police seem overstaffed, and put resources elsewhere. • Infrastructure. • Infrastructure. Maintain streets and sewers. I love living in Laramie. I use PATS bus and campus bus. They are great. • Infrastructure; replace water and sewer lines, and improve water pressure to Corthell Hill area for safety reasons. • Install street lights at 22nd and Reynolds (junior high) and 30th and Reynolds. Four way stop at 4th and University and 5th and Freemont (Post Office). • Interact with and listen to all citizens regarding their problems and concerns. Quit playing the good-old-boys game. • Invite business and development. Expand tax base. Do not make it so hard for business to come to Laramie. • Involvement of youth in all aspects; on City Council and boards. Consider their perspectives since they are the future. Hold City Council meetings at the public school periodically. • It appears the city government has West Laramie on a low-priority track. The unpaved streets become mud wallows after a snowfall and rain. Other times there is a dust problem. Drainage of streets is poor to nonexistent. • It is really frustrating that the viaduct, which should have been fixed a few years ago, remains as it is, and the old Fox remains, the sewer links and water lines have not been repaired or replaced. I think these problems are a matter of money, yes, but also lack of imagination, planning, or effort. • Keep the Clark Street viaduct open for cars. • Lack of leadership and trust are problems. Lots of respect for the job done was lost when they gave themselves raises while saying they didn’t have enough money for fire fighters for a new station. • Landfill act acquisition. A serious look at Hattie as storage sites in times of surplus. Replacement of water and sewer and storm lines in a serious manner. Take a serious look at environment districts to finance some improvements. They have some advantages. • Laramie is getting too big for the water that is available. The city also wastes money sending out recreation booklets. That money could be put to better use. • Laramie’s known for easy drug access. • Leave Sherman Hills alone. Spend money on city sewers. • Less focus on tree preservation. The city must not become involved in homeowner's decision to renovate trees. Less focus on changing our garbage collection system. We have excellent service. The argument we deserve less is weak. Mosquito control has been overlooked in this survey. Control is a very high priority. The current program is mostly adequate, more might be desirable. I lived in Laramie prior to mosquito control which usually led to one or two miserable months. A lack of mosquito control directly affects tourists’ repeat visits. • Less interference with citizen and business freedom. The city is too restrictive on development and conduct of people (like smoking in bars and clubs). Let us live and work. ---PAGE BREAK--- WYSAC, University of Wyoming City of Laramie Survey, 2008 84 • Less spending and better management of our families. • Let new industry come in! Like businesses. Bring in major businesses (like, Olive Garden, Red Lobster). Do whatever to make downtown merchants friendly. More concerts in arena. Follow Casper’s lead. Get a state basketball tournament here. Solve the campus parking problem! Attract women’s clothing shops like the Kasis and Connect shops that used to be [here]. • Life safety should be our first concern. We need a third fire station and increased staffing for better fire and EMS coverage in the future. • Limit repetitive issue consulting studies. Street and sewer repair and infrastructure. Hire quality professional administration personnel with appropriate pay scale, to accomplish the same. Reduce the number of wards to, hopefully, limit petty cross-town issues. • Long term plan for use of Monolith Ranch, improving bike paths, and repairing infrastructure. • Lowering water bill. • Maintaining historic downtown. No vibrant business care. Maintaining existing infrastructure ahead of adding new amenities that must also be maintained at taxpayers’ expense, and prevent sprawl/maintain open space. • Maintaining infrastructure. • Maintaining infrastructure. The city bought the old Fox Theater and stuck the tax payers with the cost of removing it. Do not do the same thing with the Clark Street viaduct. Focus on the basics. • Maintaining the streets and the power in West Laramie. • Major concentration on bringing in clean air industry and business. Equitable pay scale and support of police, sheriff, and health services (EMS and public health). Also, infrastructure improvements. • Major downtown renovation (similar to Ft. Collins), better parking, and attract more stores for shopping and good restaurants. • Make better use of our taxes. Proactive city manager. Continue the off-campus bus service. • Make it look more like Bozeman, Montana or Ft. Collins, Colorado. • Make landlords keep up property and make owners keep up property (no three feet tall weeds and trash). Clean up Laramie! Hardees! More recycling and composting should be strongly encouraged if not mandated. Fix connections between sidewalk and street so wheelchairs really could travel. Most places the transition is too difficult due to buildup of pavement. • Make people clean up their junk. Especially at 13th and [redacted]. • Make property owners clean up junk and weeds (including the city). Stricter enforcement of moving traffic violations. • Make sure that our justice system, from police arrests to court cases, are not approved by a good-old-boy network that provides favors and or protection for elite members of Laramie. • Make sure the [illegible] and realtors take care of their properties. The big huge trees that are turning black need to be cut down. North 4th needs to be cleaned up. Parts of Laramie need to be cleaned up. It looks like trash. • Make sure we see the results of this survey! • Make things so they are easier for the handicapped. • More accountability from the City Council. City Council should follow through on decisions. • More bike parking downtown. Need to think beyond cars and become more walk, bike, and skate proactive. Need a charge placed on thin film plastic bags to encourage reusable cloth. • More emphasis on infrastructure and a lot less on recreation. Eliminate the pigeons at the Fox Theater and the stink coming from Coal Creek Coffee shop. • More emphasis on smart planning. Enhancement and expansion of greenbelt including attempts to get access to open space east of town (Cactus Canyon, etc.). Aquifer protection. • More restrictive zoning outside city limits. Worried about 5 to 40 acre lots and impact on weeds, water quality, wildlife, and air quality (from blowing dust). Expand the greenbelt. • More stop sign enforcement and more speed limit enforcement. • Mosquito control. • Music blaring from cars and trucks. • My problem with the recreation department was a botched birthday party at the Recreation Center. Enhanced competence here would be good. Focus on city-wide sustainability. • Negotiated trail access on WLS [illegible] property east of town (Pilot Hill area). ---PAGE BREAK--- WYSAC, University of Wyoming City of Laramie Survey, 2008 85 • New bridge before Clark Street viaduct collapses. • New business, such as women’s clothing stores or, better yet, a family clothing store. • New garbage collection system dumpsters). • Noise control, like for loud sound systems in cars and trucks that are out of control. • Noise ordinance developed or enforced. Speed limits enforced on certain main streets at certain times of day (Grand and Curtis 11am-1pm and 3pm-5pm). The same with Snowy Range. Upgrade minimum housing standards for rentals. • Notification when my street will be cleaned. • Opening and staffing West Laramie fire station number three. Bulldoze the Clark Street viaduct. • Other cities in Wyoming won't allow Jake brakes. No Jake brakes to slow trucks on South 3rd. Concrete forms for that connect the two levels smoothly, like the entrance to Perkins. • Our infrastructure should be at the top of the list. I also think that perceptions are important, and 3rd Street needs huge improvements. Make business owners clean up and beautify. • Outlaw cell phone use while driving. • Paint the center stripe on the major streets. • Parking around the University of Wyoming. Stop closing main streets like 15th by the cemetery, since there really isn’t a route acceptable for detours. A lot better lighting for city parks. Washington Park is very dark and sometimes the only time people have to use the walking paths is in the evening. Clean out drains more often on street corners. • Parking at University of Wyoming, street parking in neighborhoods, and the snow removal in front of schools and side streets. • Parks and recreation department is very heavy with "managers. " I hate the "folder" at LaBonte Park. Lastly, why do so many trees have to be planted and consequently maintained with water, water systems, and personnel? I think gang activity in Laramie is on the rise and I’m very concerned about it. • Parks and recreation director position needs to be reevaluated. Hire someone new. • Pave roads. • Pave streets in West Laramie. Make people clean up their yards and junk cars. • Pave West Laramie streets. City government (building permit office) needs to be helpful, not adversarial. • Pave West Laramie. Repave Reynolds. Force clean-up or closer [sic] of junk at the corner of Curtis and [redacted]. Repave the north end of McCue. Pave Greenbelt parking lot at Optimist Park. Remove old concrete structures at the north end of Cedar Street. Convert the fenced area corner of Cedar and Curtis to either a park or a 9- or 18- hole golf course. • Pave, curb, and gutter west area of Laramie. Fire station and encourage more business for same area. • Paved streets and sidewalks in West Laramie. • Paving streets in West Laramie! We own nice homes and pay good taxes as well as Laramie proper. We deserve decent streets. • Paving streets in West Laramie, and curb, gutter, and sidewalks, please. We pay taxes too. Dust is hazardous to your health. Pave our streets in West Laramie! • Paving streets in West Laramie. • Paving streets in West Laramie. Run City Council meetings in a civil and professional manner. • Paving streets, at least some, so students do not walk in mud, etc., to school. • Paving the streets and street maintenance. • Paving West Laramie and completing the fire station. The 7% sales tax is a good thing. The reason people don’t shop in Laramie is the lack of stores. Bring in more choices. • People do not use their turn signals enough. Nothing is more important than safety. I would be ecstatic to have a bus system, even if it was just a route up and down Grand Avenue, so you could catch it at your closet stop on Grand and go out to Wal-Mart. I do not own a car. • Planning. Make it constant. One day there is no area for new development, the next day the council changes their mind and lets the city rezone for houses on Reynolds next to Indian Paintbrush. Bad idea! • Playground equipment in at least two parks (west side and east side) to accommodate children with disabilities. At least some swings, what else is out there? Let’s help them enjoy our parks! ---PAGE BREAK--- WYSAC, University of Wyoming City of Laramie Survey, 2008 86 • Please pave the roads around Linford School. What those children have to walk through is a disgrace to the city and shows a lack of concern for the safety of our children! I do not live in West Laramie. • Police patrol would be nice on Cedar Street. Many kids around and lots of speeders. Also, they are very loud. Seems they need to see how fast they can go from the bridge to the end. Police want license numbers but they are going too fast for us to read them. • Police to be seen more in neighborhoods and more in the evenings. • Preservation of water resources, maintaining infrastructure, police and fire protection, street maintenance, and development planning. • Prohibit the use of single family dwellings as apartment buildings. Stop illegal dirt bike and four-wheeler traffic. Stop licensing of illegal vehicles. Please enforce noise ordinances. Enforce vehicle licensing requirements. • determine the precise location where the west side of Harney Street will go as a collector street. • Property tax is outrageous for those who have a nice house but little money. It should be based on what the house can be sold for, not what the city thinks it's worth. We have a big illegal immigration and drug problem. The rich don’t realize the poor can't afford the kind of changes they want. Have a postal box where the average person can vent and make suggestions. • Protecting the aquifer. Better street development. • Protection of water aquifer quality. City composting of organic waste should be mandatory. Maintenance of water and sewer lines and streets. • Public art works. • Public restrooms downtown. • Public transportation because the car culture can’t last much longer. • Public transportation, recycling, and affordable and quality daycare, especially for special needs children, adults, and the elderly. • Public transportation. High speed rail systems between Laramie and Cheyenne. • Quit hiring consultants. It's costing too much money. • Quit wasting money! Don’t plant high water consuming plants. Fix the streets! Lower pay of supervisors; they aren’t worth it! Lower pay of council; they are not acting on what they should. The mayor is inept. • Rather than spending loads of money on superfluous and wasteful beautification projects lights on pedestrian bridge, flower gardens, faux antique street lights, painted curbs)…the city might be able to save money by just sending [Councilperson] a check every year. • Realigning the city’s spending priorit[ies] to avoid any further taxes. • Rebuild Grand Avenue. All of it! It’s a disgrace and it’s a major artery. • Recycle program. • Recycling! We are ten years behind the times in that regard. • Recycling; rebuilding Clark Street viaduct for all-traffic use; safe houses for kids and women; and patching our streets with much more care than currently happens. • Redo the Clark Street viaduct issue Continue to beautify the city and to town. • Reduce taxes! • Reduce upper management and increase productive workers. • Regarding the aquifer, there needs to be less focus on [the] Sherman Hills septic issue and more focus on protection from chemical spills and terrorists’ contamination. The city is, as usual, focused on a non-issue. More attention to crime convictions. Stop pleading everyone out. • Removal of Fox Theater and Clark Street viaduct. Bicycle safety (Laramie police have never issued a citation to a bicyclist), accessible parking within half a mile of the University of Wyoming, and use of recycled waste water on the golf course and other high volume water use areas. • Removal of snow from side streets. • Remove two hour parking in the downtown area. Remove the Clark Street viaduct completely. Make the university provide parking for their students and staff. • Repair and improve infrastructure. Beautification efforts are only skin deep. • Repair sidewalks for wheelchair usage and enforce trimming foliage away from sidewalks. • Repave some city streets. ---PAGE BREAK--- WYSAC, University of Wyoming City of Laramie Survey, 2008 87 • Replace old water and sewer lines. • Replace old water and sewer lines. Repair streets and remember pot holes can be fixed in the winter. WYDOT can fix them on the highway. • Replace water and sewer lines as soon as possible. • Require better landscaping and maintenance of plantings on current and future shopping areas such as Wal-Mart, Safeway, and the Plaza. • Retaining the use of Clark Street viaduct. • Safety. Snow and ice removal. Enforce drunk driving [laws]. • Secure areas on east edge of the city to protect the aquifer and develop a mountain park for non-motorized recreational activity. • Sewer and water. Nothing else matters. • Sewer systems are the number one priority. • Sidewalk repair and youth activities. • Skip Plaza, fix Fox Theater, and no pay for City Council meetings. How can you ask for more sales tax and extra money given the above! • Slowing down the driving of high school students and WyoTech students. • Smoother roads and traffic management on one way streets. Noise and speed issues on Grand Avenue during rush hour. Emission controls. Hot rod bikes and big diesel trucks that smoke up all of Grand Avenue with black smoke from huge stacks. • Snow removal on major streets and fill in some streets intersections the large divots). • Snow removal. • Something besides downtown. The streets are terrible. • Sounds farfetched, but light rail from the airport to the hospital could be a good idea. Feasibility study using WYDOT tech grant might work. I recycle and compost; I don’t bag my trash. I don’t want to pay for pick up. • Speeding and traffic violations. As a University of Wyoming bus driver I see ten to twenty red light and stop sign "runners" everyday! • Spend tax dollars wisely. Why require bagged garbage? Plastic bags don’t rot. A major increase in sewer and sanitation was recently enacted to support water and sewer line replacement, now city says we need an additional 1 cent tax? • Spending taxpayer money wisely instead of [expletive meaning superfluous] projects like downtown developments. Ridiculously priced surveys and consultants with the Fox Theater, tree planting, etc. • Staff and fire station in West Laramie. Improve Ivinson Memorial Hospital. Better care for citizens of Laramie. Push for development and growth. Allow for more job opportunities here. • State funding for lack of taxable property. Especially the University of Wyoming. • Stick to basic infrastructure issues. • City needs to clean city property. • Stop double-taxing parks by charging user fees to groups like LSA. Reduce management and administration costs, especially with Parks and Recreation. Get sewage in south Laramie as was once promised. • Stop hiring outside studies and consultants. Use local professionals at less expense. • Stop letting people buy a house for their college student and then pretending there aren’t really five or six other kids living there full-time. • Stop the growth, lower spending, and lower taxes. • Stop wasting time and money sending a notice that you will send an application). Cut out as much unnecessary as possible. Ask if it is really necessary. • Storm drainage. Keeping storm drains open and clean. Too often the street machines push leaves and trash into the drains or over the grates! Clean curbsides around the University of Wyoming when students aren’t parked there. Enforce snow shoveling rules. • Streamline the permit parking process so a person doesn’t have to spend $850 for an attorney for a building permit that staff never looked at. • Street and sidewalk maintenance. Street sweeping seems almost nonexistent now. Granted, WyoTech students bring money to the city, but they are allowed to break traffic laws such as speeding and stop signs. ---PAGE BREAK--- WYSAC, University of Wyoming City of Laramie Survey, 2008 88 • Street lighting and signage! It is nearly impossible for a newcomer to Laramie to find his or her way around! You have a lovely convention center to attract visitors to the city. But, good luck to the hapless visitor who tries to find his or her way around the city, especially after dark! Every street needs to be clearly marked (named) on at least two (diagonal) corners, or with overhead signs plus lighting to make those signs readable after dark. This should be a priority. • Street lights and paving for West Laramie. • Street maintenance, Reynolds east of 15th Street, and 9th Street north of Grand are a joke. I’m surprised no one has sued the city for neck and back injuries. • Street repair and maintenance on Reynolds). • Street repair. Do it right the first time. • Street, recycling, and water. • Street, water, and sewer repair is the first and foremost along with police, fire, and code enforcement which is why city government exists. Infrastructure! • Streets and sidewalks repair. Quit spending money on studies for the Fox Theater and Clark Street viaduct and do something about them. Quit wasting money. • Streets are a mess (potholes, etc.). Storm drainage is a mess. Enforcement of lot and yard weeds and junk litter (junk cars) is necessary! • Streets paved in West Laramie, please. • Streets paved in West Laramie. • Streets. • traffic lights to a much greater degree. For example, five stops (red lights) at Sheridan, Grand, Ivinson, fraternity row and Willet in less than half a mile is time consuming and congests traffic. It's a waste of fuel to stop three to five times on a regular basis. • Take advantage of local talent in Wyoming) for improvements. How can an out-of-towner or stranger to Wyoming know our unique situations regarding our water, trees, or how "we" want things? Local talent is good! • Take old vehicles off the streets! • Talk to the local high school about cleaning up the mess around Deti stadium. It’s a real mess. • Tear down Clark Street viaduct. Improve administration of city Recreation Center and Parks and Recreation Department. • Tear down the Clark Street bridge and stop wasting taxpayers’ dollars. Stop penalizing Laramie residents around the Casper Aquifer while developing city interests in the same area. For example, the Turner tract. • Temporary streets. • Thank the police for being near and around our schools before and after school hours. • Thanks for inviting me to participate in your survey. • The City Council is not working well. West Laramie needs improvements with streets, sewer, sidewalks, and schools. • The City Council itself needs some serious work. Serious work on communicating with each other, let alone several members who rarely show up, and communicating with Laramie. • The City Council needs to do the job they were elected to do. If we have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars for outside consulting firms, to hire people to solve our problems, why have a Council? • The City Council needs to start planning for the future. All they do is waste money on studies and get nothing done. They’re very wasteful with tax dollars. Not accountable. • The City Council needs to think about infrastructure instead of the beautification of downtown parks. City Council [expletive meaning performs poorly] and so does the management. • The city is in real financial trouble at this time. The water and sewer system is very old and needs replacement. The council should quit procrastinating about the old Empress (Fox) Theater and tear it down now. Quit treating West Laramie like it isn't there and build a fire station. • The city may invest in after-school programs for K-12 students. Perhaps math and science tutoring by paid Laramie residents. Being a liberal is not bad as it is [sic]. Absolutely do not spend any time on fixing the environment with the global warming fantasy. • The city should demand the University of Wyoming builds adequate parking on and near campus. The campus parking problem is not going to go away. ---PAGE BREAK--- WYSAC, University of Wyoming City of Laramie Survey, 2008 89 • The city should take a more conservative approach and eliminate wasteful spending. • The Clark Street viaduct should be torn down and not used at all. • The Fox Theater problem. At some point in time the city will have to take some positive action. All the studies and consultants seem to agree that this problem won’t go away. • The Harney Street viaduct should have been done a long time ago. Tax increases every time was said to be for infrastructure and it seems like nothing has been done. Where has all the money gone too? • The little league fields/grounds are in dire need of upgrades and improvements. This is long overdue and given the success of Laramie’s baseball programs it is also justified. • The people that live outside of the city limits, but are included in the area that the city controls for "future development," have to get city permission to build but are not allowed to vote for City Council. • The Police Department needs better training for crimes like break-ins and vandalism. Better resources for the police to solve crimes, especially for small businesses. • The promotion of the downtown is certainly worth our investment. Attractive downtowns enhance the overall character and interest in small- and medium-sized towns. • The Recreation Center needs to be expanded. • The streets are terrible. Curbs and gutters need a lot of work. The police are a joke. All they think about is DUI’s, not the loud cars and pickups around town. • The student shuttle on Spring Creek has completely solved the parking problems on my street. Please keep working with the university regarding parking. A minor problem is that trash collectors should completely close garbage lids. • The water bill is too expensive! Water usage by the University of Wyoming is 'way too wasteful. It needs to have a price tag! • Third Street and Fourth Street should be one-way. Infrastructure sewers and water treatment). • Third Street and Grand Avenue are an embarrassment in [their] current condition. WYDOT is ready to rebuild but the city won't fund infrastructure replacement on those streets so that WYDOT can reconstruct. • This city is so poorly run that nothing is important other than the way they waste my tax dollars. It’s disgusting. Outside worthless studies costing one million dollars and worthless compliance control people. • This survey is extremely slanted to elicit a predetermined, desired response to support an already existing and unequal City of Laramie position. It appears you are tracking individual survey reuse [sic]. • Timely turn around for development review. • To get started on the Clark Street viaduct before something really serious happens. Also, the garbage collectors should quit breaking our trashcans and throwing trash everywhere in the alley. • To go all out to encourage businesses of all sizes to start up or relocate to the Laramie area. • To make a decision on the new viaduct’s location. Find a way to fund the Recreation Center without it being a white elephant to taxpayers. • Too much on outside studies and no decisions on Clark Street viaduct or the Fox Theater. Our City Council needs to take responsibility to act and enforce. • Traffic control and speeding. • Traffic control and stop sign runners. Weed control and sidewalks, curbs and gutters. • Traffic enforcement, red light running, stop-sign violations, and passing [on the] right in school zones. I realize the Laramie Police Department is usually understaffed. So, it's hard to get manpower for traffic control. • Traffic flow in downtown area; the parking plan is dangerous. Business procurement that doesn’t center around the university. Cost of living; housing and groceries should not be this high! • Traffic flow in town. West Laramie has had traffic increase significantly since 1998, and is getting worse during morning, nights, and holidays. • Treating college and WyoTech students the same as they treat everyone else when they play loud music and have loud pipes that blow your ears out. • University of Wyoming needs to build a parking structure on central campus for faculty, staff, and visitors. Trash pickup in the [illegible] to be done Tuesdays when there is a Monday holiday (Thursday holidays, too). Need to be charged less for those months when that happens. It happens at least five times a year. • University of Wyoming parking. ---PAGE BREAK--- WYSAC, University of Wyoming City of Laramie Survey, 2008 90 • University of Wyoming students six-story parking building. Six story parking building in downtown area. Reprogram downtown street lights, they're jacked up! • Urban sprawl and quality of life issues. • Use, rather than waste, water at Monolith Ranch. Build a reservoir. Charge minimal access fees towards funding curbside recycling. Fewer surveys; how much is this costing? More activists! • Viaduct at Harney. West Laramie fire station. West Laramie clean-up. • Water and sewer infrastructure and street and alley maintenance. • Water and sewer line replacement and subsequently street, sidewalk, curb, and gutter repair and replacement. • Water and sewer. Traffic enforcement and code enforcement. Clark Street viaduct will be a white elephant if pedestrians only have access to east side. Recent update to CAPP is a joke and waste of money. • Water distribution infrastructure. We have excellent groundwater, but by the time it comes out of my [faucet] (or anyone else’s), it's poor quality. • Water distribution systems upgrade. Enforce weed and trash violations, and quit dilly-dallying with the long standing Fox Theater. It's a health and safety threat; and reduce pigeon populations before they create similar situations in other buildings. • Water drains should be cleaned so they can be used in summer and winter. Money spent on roads in town and sewer infrastructure. • Water lines, sanitary sewer, road maintenance, and public parking in downtown area. Left turn on street parking on Grand Avenue and 3rd Street [sic]. • Water pipeline replacement, sanitary sewer system capacity expansion, and enforcement of bicycle traffic laws. • Water pressure. • Water quality. There needs to be an analysis of waste pharmaceuticals in the city’s water. In other words, what drugs are passing from citizens' urine and feces into the water supply? • Water resources. • Water retention with recreation opportunities. • Water system maintenance and replacement. There are too many water supply pipeline breaks. We had three in a month with dirt in our water supply afterwards. • Water, sewer, and roads. • Water. If we ruin it, it will be gone! • Waterline infrastructure needs to be number one. • Waterlines upgraded. • We live on McCue Street and we would like to see something done with the business that moved into [removed]. It is the first thing you see coming down this street and it looks horrible. [Removed] should be made to clean it up! • We need a decent place to buy clothes and shop. • We need a Home Depot or a Lowes, an Olive Garden, and industrial growth to attract employment opportunities. The city chases away this type of growth. We need an urgent care medical service with good doctors. • We need a street light at the end of Hackney and Morgan. It is really dark at night and I don’t feel safe. • We need at least one street light in our neighborhood. It’s so dark. • We need much more real animal control in the parks. • West Laramie fire protection. Also, upgrade of infrastructure. The age of pipes in the city is a disaster waiting to happen. • West Laramie fire station. • West Laramie streets and drainage. Repair infrastructure. Stop wasting funds on hiring consultants for everything. • When a road is to be repaved, inspect water and sewer lines or make necessary repairs before paving of reset manholes, so [that] pavers can make a smooth transition up and around them. Not after and mismatched. • While I understand and support underage drinking laws and DUI’s, there seems to be many [other] traffic violations that go unnoticed. • Why are bicycle riders given a pass on traffic violations? Why are trees, signs, etc., allowed to block one's sight at intersections? Bike riders with no lights fail to signal and fail to stop at stop signs. • Why are there cars driving around with year-old temporary licenses? Why isn’t that enforced? ---PAGE BREAK--- WYSAC, University of Wyoming City of Laramie Survey, 2008 91 • Why do we fix the streets and repave right before students come back? And why do we not put an officer on 3rd Street for every break at WyoTech when they speed down the street behind the Northridge Center? Low voltage licensing should be required by low voltage contractors, just like the State of Wyoming. • Wind-blown trash [from the] city dump is blowing onto adjacent properties. Infrastructure: city, water, and sewer. Open space preservation and a link to national forests for multi-use east of Laramie. • Would like more police patrol on Harney between 9th Street and 15th Street because there is a lot of very fast traffic. There will be a major accident at 11th Street and Harney because of heavy cross-traffic. • Would like to see a mall for shopping. I would like to see more associations for teenagers (like, Chuck E Cheese) and the roller skate rink improved. • Youth, especially law enforcement, adequate health care, and housing. ---PAGE BREAK--- WYSAC, University of Wyoming City of Laramie Survey, 2008 92 Appendix B.3. Volunteered responses. Question 1. How would you rate the QUALITY of each of the following services provided by the City of Laramie? • Cut taxes and budget and stop looking for more ways to spend! Question 1. [Fire fighting] • West Laramie needs a station. Question 1. [Enforcement of traffic laws] • Stop-sign runners. • Too many tickets. • You are to serve and protect. Question 1. [Crime prevention] • Too many unsolved crimes. Question 1. [Garbage collection.] • Too expensive. Question 1. [Street maintenance and repair.] • In West Laramie. • Sidewalks, too. Question 1. [Street cleaning.] • Except in winter. • Too expensive. It should be eliminated. Question 1. [Snow removal on major streets (not including residential streets).] • Grand Avenue! • Snow removal has always been poor. • Snow removal in comparison to other Wyoming towns is awful. Question 1. [Storm drainage.] • In West Laramie. Question 1. [Park appearance/maintenance.] • 'Way too much emphasis on parks and recreation. ---PAGE BREAK--- WYSAC, University of Wyoming City of Laramie Survey, 2008 93 Question 1. [Recreation programs.] • Not enough programs targeting youth and adolescents. • The Recreation Center is too expensive. Question 1. [Land use, planning, zoning.] • No parking around the university. Question 1. [Code enforcement (weeds, substandard buildings, junk, etc.).] • [Expletive for urine] poor. • Unimportant. • West Laramie. Question 1. [Building permit services.] • Never there or it takes too long. • Takes too long. Question 1. [Access for disabled persons to city facilities, parks, etc.] • Unimportant. Question 2. If you have interacted with a City of Laramie department in the past 12 months, please identify the department of your MOST RECENT interaction: • Animal control. • Code enforcement. • Recreation Center. • Shared concrete program for replacement of sidewalks (residential). Question 3. Do you own or rent your Laramie residence? • Laramie Senior Housing. Question 4. [Crime.] • Crimes don’t hit the paper. Joe the Plumber doesn’t know about them. Question 4. [Illegal drug use.] • Awful with high school youth. Question 4. [Nuisances (rundown buildings, weeds, junk vehicles).] • Huge! • Weeds! • West Laramie. Question 4. [Speeding and traffic violations.] • Noise. • Speed is the only thing that is looked [at]. A lot of people in this city don’t use turn signals or use them when they are already turning. Also, they use the wrong lane when turning with more than one lane. Question 4. [Parking availability around UW campus.] • Huge problem. • Should be the University of Wyoming's problem. They’re taking away parking. Question 4. [Litter and debris.] • Around dump. ---PAGE BREAK--- WYSAC, University of Wyoming City of Laramie Survey, 2008 94 Question 4. [Public disturbances (loud music, parties, etc.).] • Barking dogs. Question 4. [Occupancy violations too many people living in a single home or apartment).] • 'Way bad! Question 5. How safe do you feel… [In the downtown area during the day.] • I don’t go downtown. • Very safe. Question 5. How safe do you feel… [In Laramie parks during the day.] • I don’t use parks. There are too many cars. • Loose dogs. Question 5. How safe do you feel… [In Laramie parks after dark.] • Loose dogs. • Prevention measures. Question 7. If the City assumes ownership [of the Clark Street viaduct], which of the following options do you prefer? • Both. • Bulldoze the viaduct. • Close it. Don’t spend the money. • Cost? • Destroy it. • Do not assume the street. • Don’t assume ownership. • Eliminate the viaduct should be an option. You only list options of keeping the viaduct. • Emergency! • For pedestrians. Bad question. Not enough options. • It has reached the end of its usable life. • It is very unsafe and should be demolished. • It should be available to all people, tourists, locals, and students, so set up a walkway. • No city ownership. Tear the Clark Street viaduct down! • No Clark Street viaduct at all. It goes nowhere. • No need to own or maintain. • Remove it. • Should be torn down. • Tear down and rebuild for local traffic. • Tear it down. [11] • Tear it down. If WYDOT will not fix, why should the city? • The City should not assume ownership! Look at the exposure to the Fox Theater. • The Clark Street viaduct should be destroyed before a fatality occurs! • The Clark Street viaduct to be torn down. Can’t we decide this once and for all? ---PAGE BREAK--- WYSAC, University of Wyoming City of Laramie Survey, 2008 95 Question 7 (cont.). If the City assumes ownership [of the Clark Street viaduct], which of the following options do you prefer? • The least expensive option is best. • We need to keep this bridge for vehicles. • What kinds of options are these? Are you freaking kidding me! Tear the damn thing down! • What's the purpose of a viaduct if you’re not going to allow vehicles? We don't need a viaduct for bicycles. • Why? Tear it down! Question 8. Regarding a public bus system.. • Depends on routes, if it goes near my home. I work three to four days a week. • Depends, it's like University of Wyoming. They first create a parking problem then their solution is a bus system. Very poor planning! • Existing bus services not well known. City assistance needed. • If it had a decent (more than one pick up per hour) schedule, otherwise not at all. • Not a city problem. This is a University of Wyoming problem. Question 8a. How much do you agree or disagree that establishing a public bus system in Laramie is a high priority? • As long as it was constant. Times every four or two hours would be adequate. • University of Wyoming and Epson Center have [one] now. Question 8b. On average, how many days per week would you use a public bus system rather than your personal vehicle? • Bike to work. • Depends on the route. • I know many who need it. • My son could use it and I could. • Possibly more, depending on time frames to get across town. • We bike. Question 9. Where do you get information about the activities of city government? • Ergo, not much because the city does not work at getting coverage. Question 12. If the City of Laramie had funds available, how would you prioritize each of the following? • High priority is fixing the water and sewer infrastructure in the city of Laramie. • We needed the 7 cent tax. Question 12. [Maintaining infrastructure (sewer and water distribution system, storm drains).] • Inside city only. Question 12. [Preservation of water resources (Casper Aquifer, Monolith Ranch, Water Rights).] • Monolith Ranch. • What are the options? Question 12. [Retain use of Clark Street viaduct at City's expense.] • I think you should tear it down before it falls down. ---PAGE BREAK--- WYSAC, University of Wyoming City of Laramie Survey, 2008 96 Question 12. [Curbside recycling and/or composting.] • Need more. Total overhaul of environment protection. Question 12. [Growth and development planning.] • Depends on the direction taken on. • If done right. • With a different planner. Question 12. [Beautification downtown, public areas).] • West Laramie. Question 12. [Improving/upgrading sidewalks, curbs, gutter.] • West Laramie. Question 12. [Traffic calming (pedestrian safety).] • With smooth approaches. Question 12. [Police protection.] • Already very good. Question 13. What is your employment status? • Self-employed. • Temporary work. ---PAGE BREAK--- WYSAC, University of Wyoming City of Laramie Survey, 2008 97 Appendix C. Survey Instrument ---PAGE BREAK--- WYSAC, University of Wyoming City of Laramie Survey, 2008 98 ---PAGE BREAK--- WYSAC, University of Wyoming City of Laramie Survey, 2008 99 ---PAGE BREAK--- WYSAC, University of Wyoming City of Laramie Survey, 2008 100 ---PAGE BREAK--- App Area Cent WYSAC, U pendix D as for this ma ter. University of W D. Larami ap were defin Wyoming ie Areas ned by City o Map officials, and the map was Ci s created by t ity of Laramie S the Wyoming Survey, 2008 g Survey & A 101 Analysis