Section 1 Notes about the Kits PAC Survey

· survey respondents were contacted by notice in both the school and Pac e-mail news, links on both the school and PAC web sites, PAC volunteer canvassing in local public areas and during the open houses and Visioning workshop.

· the survey was conducted from January 19 to February 15, 2009 (open houses and Visioning workshop were Feb. 13-14, 2009)

· rather than a professional survey conducted by an independent consultant, this is an amateur survey using a free web service (surveymonkey.com) conducted by PAC volunteers

· the free web service does not include a professional way to check survey responses for mischief submissions.

· Survey respondent categories were staff, students, Kitsilano parents, feeder school parents, alumni and other community members. Kitsilano parent responses are 41.6% of the total composition.

· the survey was done without information about the cost differences between options (see Appendix A  for examples).

· teachers views from the survey are also important (they are professionals working in the school building with our students). PAC notes that on the survey, some of the teacher response results are significantly different (see Appendix B , which has survey section 5 results as an example). These differences are a reminder that it is very important to continue informing the stake holder groups about PAC plans in order to improve understanding and cooperation. Our students need the cooperation of their teachers on this project for our students to benefit from their teachers’ expertise on design matters. Note that teacher and parent participation in the survey may be in the same percentage range.

Survey population:

Total number of students attending Kitsilano is 1484

Total number of Teachers at Kitsilano (full and part time) is 91, Support Staff 27

Total number of Kitsilano Parents can only be approximated from the number of Kitsilano students.

Regards total number of feeder school parents, there are 8 feeder schools.