Our survey has completed. We have received over 430
responses. Read the entire 15 page document
here.
We are still interested in
receiving late results if you are
interested in participating.
We will still track these late survey results and append them to
our initial survey results.
Also check out the SPCC
member demographics, and
Minnesota curling club
demographics.
Conclusions:
There is
significant support to build a new facility in the west metro
area. 92% of the respondents who live in the western suburbs of
the Twin Cities indicated “Yes” or “Maybe” when asked if they
would curl at such a facility.
Although the
St.
Paul Curling Club WILL lose some membership, the loss of
“member leagues” will be minimal. A typical curler curling at
the
SPCC curls in an average of 1.3 leagues when polling ALL
respondents. A western suburb curler would continue to curl in
.72 leagues at the
SPCC,
but would also curl in 1.33 leagues at a new western location.
At “1205”
member leagues, the
SPCC
is currently over-capacity. Assuming 3 draws per evening, 5
days a week on 8 sheets, the current absolute capacity is 960
“member leagues”. This does not include the Junior curling,
bonspiels, groups rentals, and novice leagues. This also leaves
no time for practice, and very little time for regular ice
maintenance. In fact, even with the projected loss, the
projected membership at the
SPCC
will be “973 Member Leagues” – which is still over the desired
capacity of 960.
The capacity of
the proposed new facility would make the same assumption, but
with only 4 sheets of ice (thus 480 member leagues as a
hypothetical capacity).
There is a
strong support by Western Suburb Curlers to pre-pay membership
(23%). The concept would be to make this a voluntary
“pre-payment” plan. Between $94,000 and $188,000 could be
raised by invoking this membership concept.
A facility in
the West/Central Metro (Golden Valley/St. Louis Park/West
Minneapolis area) or Southwest/Central Metro (Hopkins, Edina,
Richfield area) is most desirable for a combined 39% of support
for such location. There is also support (15% each) for a
location either in the Northwest Metro (Maple Grove/Osseo/Coon
Rapids/Brooklyn Park area) or the Southwest Metro (Chanhassen,
Eden Prairie, Bloomington area).
Read the entire 15 page detailed
analysis:
Final Results and Analysis of
SPCC Member Survey
(prepared 1/12/04, Word Document) |
