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11% of respondents used park facilities regularly while 59% were sometime users and 30% had never used park and recreation facilities. When queried as to whether the city should provide more leisure programs, the majority (53%) did not know. Only 27% responded affirmatively while 20% responded negatively. In looking at the Law Enforcement function only 48% of respondents had had any contact with police during the past 12 months. Of those coming in contact with the police 54% felt that the police were fair and courteous in their dealings with people while only 7% disagreed. In looking at the Patrol function, 46% of respondents felt that there was inadequate neighborhood patroling as compared to 39% who felt that the level of patroling was about right. 56% felt that the police services provided to them over the last 12 months were of good quality with 37% perceiving service of fair quality and only 7% rating police services as poor. In looking at the City Fire Services, only 1% of respondents had occasion to actually use city fire services. However, 53% of respondents gave fire service a good rating and 82% would allow firemen to inspect their houses to help check for fire hazards. As to enforcement of fire codes, 72% said they didn't know what was being done on Code enforcement while 6% felt that there was adequate enforcement and 22% felt that there was inadequate enforcement. Trash and Garbage services were generally perceived in a favorable light with 57% of respondents rating the sanitation service as good at the same time 41% said that garbage pick up had been missed one or more times in the past 12 months and 8% saying that pickup was missed three or more times. -page 4-