Hello.

Stay kind of far away.

It's very loud.

Well, hi.

I'm gonna I'm gonna just I'll just call it to order, okay?

Go for it.

Um I'm calling the commission on senior living to order on September 24th at 5 30 p.m.

here in Carmel City Hall.

Um tonight we're just going to go through our agenda, and first on our agenda is Monica that has been working on our uh survey, and I will ask her to um give us a summary so far, and then we probably have some questions for you, Monica.

Yeah.

Well, as of today, uh five minutes ago, we have uh 496 completed surveys, so we're almost at 500.

Um 30 of those came in on Monday.

Uh the first week we had about 240 the first week.

So basically we got a big chunk, and it's just getting lesser and lesser as the weeks go on.

Um, but we're still you know getting some each week.

Um so about 500.

What we did is we um our original plan was we got enough um numbers or got enough addresses that we could send out 10,000 surveys.

Um because of the way printing works for us, for whatever reason, it was cheaper to send out all 10,000 rather than a thousand, a thousand at a time.

So we sent out ten thousand.

Um so in theory, if everyone answered, we we would have ten thousand.

Clearly, we have five hundred, so that's not the case.

Um our response rate is really low right now.

Um 500 is still good.

I mean, it's good to have that much feedback, but uh percentage-wise, we're pretty low.

Um so what our plan is is to wait until uh the surveys completely plateau.

Um so where we're getting you know one or two back a week, um, and then we'll revisit sending out a follow-up survey.

Um so the point then would be to follow uh send it back out to the people who haven't uh who didn't send it back to us, so not new people, the same original 10,000 um to try and get them to respond.

So that's our plan.

Um based on the way things are going, I would say in the next maybe two-ish, two to three weeks, we would hit like full plateau with how things are going.

That is to say, I know that a reporter was doing a story on it, so if it ends up in the what uh so it is possible that we'll get um increased response rate.

The problem is some of those people might have already thrown away the paper.

Um so then we might need to resend it back out so that people it's now in their mind.

Um so that's where we're at.

Um it's going.

And how many do you really hope that you can get?

We've got 495.

What would you like to get?

We want as many as we can.

Um so I would say uh I don't know that I want to answer that question.

I want as many as possible.

Um I think the biggest thing is that what we can start doing once we get a little bit uh a little bit more numbers, we can start to look at kind of the demographics of Carmel and the demographics of people who have answered, and then see if they're matching, and if not, then we really need to try and push it out to get that representative sample that we talk about, right?

Um so there will be people who are more likely to respond to a survey just because they have more time or more interest.

Um those people are gonna be more likely to respond, but maybe if we nudge the others, then they'll um get back with us.

So that's our question.

When you said um looking at the demographics of Carmel, yeah, and then others, I thought this was just Carmel.

Oh no, I didn't if I said others, I didn't mean it.

This is just Carmel.

I'm maybe Miss Heard.

Oh, yeah, yeah, just just Carmel, just people with um Carmel zip codes, and then um there is a small caveat that surveys have been sent out to people.

I don't know the workings of Carmel, but that have been sliced off from Carmel and are now in Fisher's or one of the other counties.

We still have that information, so we're still including them in the survey, but there's not very many of them, but we can always cut them off if we don't want their answers.

So they're in the survey now, but I don't know which zip code it is because I don't know.

And then further clarification, was it mentioned previously that you needed 500 for it to be scientific data?

I don't know if that's the case, but 500 um is again a great start.

We're three away from that, so that's awesome.

Um I do think that I think that was probably when we were thinking about sending out 1,000 at a time.

And because we sent out 10,000 at a time, this is like it's a very low response rate, right?

So if it was 500 out of a thousand that answered, that'd be 50% response rate.

And honestly, for the kind of work we're doing here, that would be great.

But 500 out of 10,000 is not 50%.