Downtown Park User Study
The Downtown Austin Alliance is looking for volunteers to help with a survey of downtown park users during the months of June, July and August 2011.
The focus of the study will be downtown Austin’s historic Republic Square, Brush Square and Old Bakery. Volunteers will count the number of park users and conduct short interviews. Park observation sessions are in 30-minute intervals, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of the specified weeks. Volunteers can sign up for as little at 90 minutes (3 observations) per month and as much as 12 hours per month. Volunteers can even choose to buddy up, one person can count the users and the other can conduct interviews. Please feel free to sign up for as many shifts as you would like. The complete schedule is below. In order to ensure consistency in the study methodology, we are asking that volunteers attend a 1-hour mandatory training session on either Wednesday June 15 or Thursday June 16.
You can choose to observe one or several of the following downtown parks:
Republic Square: between 4th and 5th and Guadalupe and San Antonio Streets
Brush Square: between 4th and 5th and Trinity and Neches Streets
Old Bakery Park: at 10th and Congress Avenue
Summer Volunteer Schedule:
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 Thursday, June 23, 2011 Saturday, June 25, 2011
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 Thursday, July 21, 2011 Saturday, July 23, 2011
Tuesday, August 16, 2011 Thursday, August 18, 2011 Saturday, August 20, 2011
Each day has 3 available shifts for each park:
8‐8:30am, 12‐12:30pm or 6‐6:30pm
Orientation Sessions:
Wednesday, June 15: 9-10am Where: Downtown Austin Alliance Office 211 E. 7th street, 8th Floor Conference Room
Thursday, June 16: 6-7pm Where: Downtown Austin Alliance Office 211 E. 7th street, 8th Floor Conference Room
Parking is available at the DAA garage on E. 7th Street between Brazos and San Jacinto. Just tell the attendant you are attending a meeting at the Downtown Austin Alliance.
Questions:
Contact Lauren or Melissa with questions.
Lauren Bennett - Bennett.laurend@gmail.com – 512.999.0379
Melissa Barry – Melissa@downtownaustin.com – 512.469.0476




























