City of Stillwater Seeks Public Input

The City of Stillwater is excited to announce the launch of Polco, an innovative engagement platform where residents can have input into the community decision-making process. Through new insights using Polco’s civic analytics website and apps, the City will post questions directly to residents and receive insightful, reliable data to help drive local policy decisions. By increasing civic engagement through web-based polling, there is an opportunity to meet Stillwater residents where they are.

Stillwater’s rollout of Polco focuses on elements of the 2040 Comprehensive Plan. Over the next several weeks the City will release Polco questions focusing on perceptions of public safety, community quality of life, performance of local government, taxes and more. This is an opportunity to let the City know what is valued most, what may need to be improved, and what opportunities there are for the future. Current questions include:

• How high of a priority should building an indoor public swimming pool/aquatic center be?
• How much do you oppose or support the funding of capital improvement projects for the city of Stillwater through an increased property tax?
• Overall, how would you rate the City's performance in meeting your needs?

Residents become active users by downloading the Polco app or by visiting polco.us/stillwater and creating an account by answering a few brief questions. Polco is committed to a strict privacy policy where they only share aggregated de-identified results. Participant detailed data and votes are never shared – not even with the City of Stillwater. This service is free to all community members.