(May 11, 2017) Plans to release a communitywide comprehensive planning survey in Ocean Pines are still in limbo, but the intention is to proceed at some point according to Board Vice President Dave Stevens.
The comprehensive planning committee worked on survey questions for more than a year and produced a draft it hoped the board would approve in time for the questionnaire to be mailed with assessments this spring.
That did not happen and the committee has not met in some time. Committee Chairman Frank Daly said he had not heard from the board since he mailed the latest draft.
Stevens, the liaison to the committee, said Board President Tom Herrick, interim General Manager Brett Hill and he had discussed the comprehensive plan survey briefly during weekly meetings, but the full board had “not yet been apprised of the current status in any detail.”
Before action can be taken, the board would have to discuss the matter, he said.
“With no further questions from the board, I believe (although this is yet to be confirmed) that the board is ready to move forward with what we have in the way of a survey, but two issues remain,” Stevens said in an email last Wednesday.
“The first is how to get the survey into the hands of the membership (i.e., by mail with the election materials, electronically, embedded in the quarterly report or other). The second issue is how the results will be tabulated, analyzed and published,” Stevens continued.
“I think it fair to say that anyone who has taken the survey is going to want to know what the results are in a reasonably expeditious manner. Ideally, we would like something similar to the Zogby report of 2005. The GM has volunteered to look into the efficacy and cost of third party participation. This is a fair amount of work and it should be done right.”
Stevens said he hoped to discuss the matter in more detail during a board session.
“We are prepared to move forward and can do so in the manner they choose,” Daly said.
The comprehensive planning committee worked on survey questions for more than a year and produced a draft it hoped the board would approve in time for the questionnaire to be mailed with assessments this spring.
That did not happen and the committee has not met in some time. Committee Chairman Frank Daly said he had not heard from the board since he mailed the latest draft.
Stevens, the liaison to the committee, said Board President Tom Herrick, interim General Manager Brett Hill and he had discussed the comprehensive plan survey briefly during weekly meetings, but the full board had “not yet been apprised of the current status in any detail.”
Before action can be taken, the board would have to discuss the matter, he said.
“With no further questions from the board, I believe (although this is yet to be confirmed) that the board is ready to move forward with what we have in the way of a survey, but two issues remain,” Stevens said in an email last Wednesday.
“The first is how to get the survey into the hands of the membership (i.e., by mail with the election materials, electronically, embedded in the quarterly report or other). The second issue is how the results will be tabulated, analyzed and published,” Stevens continued.
“I think it fair to say that anyone who has taken the survey is going to want to know what the results are in a reasonably expeditious manner. Ideally, we would like something similar to the Zogby report of 2005. The GM has volunteered to look into the efficacy and cost of third party participation. This is a fair amount of work and it should be done right.”
Stevens said he hoped to discuss the matter in more detail during a board session.
“We are prepared to move forward and can do so in the manner they choose,” Daly said.