Still Time to Complete the Business Survey

Members of the Millburn-Short Hills Business Coalition are tabulating the results to its survey, but there is still time to submit a response if you have not yet done so.

Shayne Miller, coalition chairman, said there are over 150 handwritten surveys that need to be entered into the system, and the results won't be tabulated until they are entered.

"We didn't expect to get so many handwritten responses," he said. "Some are 15 pages long. We just want to do this right."

Miller said in June they expected to be able to have the results of the survey by August. But they ran into manpower and technical issues, which is holding up the tabulation. Miller said they expect to have the results completed for the fall when the township's business organizations begin a marketing campaign.

But until the final results are tabulated after the handwritten surveys are entered into the system, people can still fill out the survey online.

The survey—which has a consumer and business version—will assist business leaders in determining where to market and which types of businesses the community wants to come to town.

"We all have limited resources," Miller said. "This will help us figure out what to do with our limited resources.

There have been about 230 online responses to the consumer survey and 52 online responses to the business version. Miller said they are above their goal for responses to the business survey, and they are just below their goal for the consumer survey.

The people who have responded, he said, have taken quite some time to complete the comment sections of the surveys.

"People really care," he said of the pages of comments some people have written.