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Survey was self- congratulatory

I just finished reading your article on the results of the citizen survey for Cupertino. I think my paper was missing a page or something. The graph showed some very interesting statistics on the worst things about living in Cupertino, some of which I agree with strongly, but your article never mentioned any of them. To read the words, one would believe that there are no issues in Cupertino. The taxpayers spent $16,000 to tell the City Council that everything is just wonderful here. Well, since everything is so darned good, I suggest that the whole council resign, and we can all go home and save a real bundle.

I did find a lot of interesting things in the article, though. Like, just about everyone in the whole city wants to expand the library, and even those who don't want to expand it want to pay for it anyway.

According to the graph, about 17 to 18 percent of the people are worried about pollution. What kind of pollution? This might be an issue I haven't thought about yet. And while nearly 30 percent are concerned about overpopulation, only about 5 percent are concerned about overdevelopment? Hmmmm.

Ninety percent said the response time of the sheriff's deputies was "excellent" or "good." Sheesh! If 90 percent of the respondents know firsthand what the response time of the sheriff's department is, we've got another problem.

All right, already. Now that I have complained, let me compliment. We have great weather--or we did, until this winter. We have some really outstanding ethnic restaurants. We do have really good services: garbage and recycling. We have a Starbucks, and Crossroads Chevron employs just about the best auto mechanics anywhere. Well, that's about it.

Get your heads out of the sand. How does this compare to previous surveys? If there were none, then how do we know that 80 percent saying race relations are excellent or good isn't actually a dropping trend? Don Brown seems to be the only one concerned with addressing issues, or was that just the way the article was written?

If no one will address real issues, then what is the point?

Sallee Peterson
Cupertino

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