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SAN MARCOS NEIGHBORHOOD/ COHMUNlTY CONCERNS SURVEY The Greater San Marcos Area Council of Neighborhood Associations determined at their March 1985 meeting that it would be in the best interest of both the neighborhoods comprising the council and the city of San Marcos to develop a questionaire which could be used to accurately ascertain citizen perception of the Level of services being provided by the city of San Marcos. To this end a committee was appointed to develop such an instrument. Two versions of the questionaire were presented to the council meeting of April 1985 and the membership selected the version which in both spanish and english editions is enclosed as Appendix "A". The questionaire was translated into a spanish language edition through the good offices of Dr. Robert A. Galvan and Mr. Javier Villareal of the Modern Languages Department of Southwest Texas State University. Through the generosity of the Texas Educational Foundation, two thousand english and spanish language questionaires were printed by The Gary Job Corps Center Print Shop. Distribution of questionaires through neighborhood representatives was begun in July, 1985. Final returns were gathered during October, 1985. Because of the lengthy period of the field phase of this survey, returns may be subject to the influence of interviewing variables such as the highly publicized drive to launch a recall petition for the mayor and city council. Of the 1,428 questlonalres distributed 292 were returned for a 20.44% response ratio. Optimum distribution of all 2000 questionaires was -page 1-