Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties

Bessemer survey results roll in

By IAN MINIELLY

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BESSEMER - Charly Loper was seen Wednesday checking and re-checking survey results Bessemer residents sent in to city hall.

The city sent out 980 surveys to residents and received 296 responses. A 30 percent response rate far exceeded what city manager Loper was expecting. She was hoping for a 10 percent return rate.

What Loper discovered was the electronic reader was not sufficient to capture the responses. In many questions there was an option to respond with more than one answer and the electronic scanner was unable to differentiate between m...