Annual Citizen's Survey - One of the weeklies filed a story this week regarding the City Commission's discussion of our annual citzen's survey. I would say the story was biased to make the city look bad, but that would be an insult to bias. I encourage anyone that's interested to go to the city's website and view the actual discussion for yourself using the video streaming feature - the link is right there on the home page, sarasotagov.com. What actually happened was a fairly long discussion of the survey results, what one can and cannot conclude from them, what value they have, and how sometimes the results on certain items can be skewed by events that may or may not be city related. At no point did anyone belittle the citizens of Sarasota as the Pelican reported. The discussion was about how to get the most meaning from the results possible. In some cases, it was theorized that certain results (that didn't square with what we intuitively believed what people might say) could mean that we hadn't informed our citizenry well enough. If that were true, that is something we can fix, but it's a far cry from trying to "PR" our way out of a negative response, as was also stated. Frankly I found the report of the discussion more than a little slanted, probably to the point of irresponsible. But don't take my word for it, watch for yourself and draw your own conclusion.