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Commissioners,
In your board packet for April 7, 2025 you have an “Aquatic Survey Analysis”.
The document in your packet differs in several significant ways from the “same” analysis that is posted on the Jefferson County Aquatic Coalition website at:
https://www.jeffcoaquaticcoalition.org/_files/ugd/ae9943_9e3d0f7e0399412a8d4e7cd771f6d536.pdf
Some examples:
Board packet: Page 25 of 40 Question 9: The bars appear to total about 120% or so (far more than 100%, in any case), no percentages shown.
JAC website: Page 16 of 31 Question 9: Percentages are displayed, and do total 100
Board packet: Page 32 of 40 Question 13: The bars appear to total about 125% or so (far more than 100%, in any case), no percentages shown.
JAC website: Page 23 of 31 Question 13: Percentages are displayed, and do total 100
Put the above graphs of the “same” information side by side and they are clearly very different.
Some more examples of inconsistencies:
Board packet: Page 2 Supportive 56.5%, Unsupportive 25. 8%, Neutral, Undecided 5.6% (NB: Does not total to 100%)
JAC website: (no content provided)
Board packet: Page 35 Positive, Negative, Neutral – but NO percentages are provided
JAC website: Page 27 Positive 40%, Negative 35%, Neutral 25%
etc!
The material in your board packet was made available to you and to the public for the first time on Friday, April 4. There has been no way to validate the “analysis”, and what has been
provided to you differs markedly from what is published on JAC’s website.
It has been brought to my attention that JAC’s survey “expert”, presumably the author of much of this report, is a member of that organization’s board. You cannot possibly expect that
any report from JAC would be unbiased or neutral.
None of this almost amateurish “report” should be trusted. The survey results are essentially meaningless until a neutral third party has been able to audit and authenticate the process
by with the information was collected and perform an independent analysis thereof.
Making a decision to form a new public agency (PFD) to levy sales (and other) taxes based on the information you’re being given would be foolhardy.
Thank you,
Tom Thiersch