Community survey: Mountlake Terrace, WA
The National Civic League + ActiVote Partnership
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The National Civic League, Perfect City, and the City of Mountlake Terrace, WA have partnered with ActiVote – an award winning polling organization – to give residents a simple, trusted, and data-driven way to understand the health of their local democracy and gather feedback on issues that matter.
You do not need an ActiVote account to take this survey. Anyone can participate by skipping the name and email fields. All responses are anonymous. Creating an account is optional, but it unlocks additional free features such as personalized comparisons between your policy views and candidates’ positions, daily civic quizzes, nonpartisan candidate information, policy issue polling, and candidate approval surveys.
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Our work in Mountlake Terrace
Mountlake Terrace is participating in the Better Public Meetings project funded by the Luce Foundation. The goal of this work is to help the community improve how public meetings are experienced by residents, elected officials, and municipal staff.
Public meetings, such as city council and board or commission meetings, are essential to local decision-making. The Better Public Meetings project helps communities strengthen transparency, increase satisfaction with the public meeting process, and ensure that more voices can be heard. This work combines community feedback, testing new tools, and exploration of creative approaches to make meetings more welcoming and effective.
By completing this ActiVote survey, you can share your experiences of Mountlake Terrace’s city council and boards and commissions meetings. ActiVote will aggregate local results to help Mountlake Terrace understand its strengths and opportunities. Your feedback will also contribute to a broader picture of democratic health across the country. Your participation helps strengthen your community and supports a national effort to improve democracy.
About Perfect City
Perfect City was instigated in 2016 by playwright Aaron Landsman. Housed at Abrons Arts Center on the Lower East Side of New York City, our work includes performances, mapping exercises about belonging and avoidance, roundtable discussions, writing, and research on street harassment and gentrification. Now in our eighth year, undaunted by the pandemic, we remain committed to envisioning and enacting cities for everyone, civic engagement for the most marginalized, and reinventing public space by and for the people who live together here. 2025 is a year of quiet expansion, with new partnerships, a synthesis of theatrical and visual tools, and a burgeoning network for artistic civic action locally, nationally and beyond.
About NCL
The mission of the National Civic League is to advance inclusive civic engagement and promote innovations in democracy to make decision-making more participatory, equitable, and effective. Founded in 1894 by Teddy Roosevelt and Louis Brandeis, the Civic League championed the democracy innovations of the early 20th Century. Today the League hosts the Center for Democracy Innovation (CDI), which works with communities across the U.S. to understand, test, and disseminate the next generation of civic innovations. The League also maintains the Model City Charter, organizes the All-America City Awards, publishes the National Civic Review, sustains the Healthy Democracy Ecosystem Map, helps cities measure their civic engagement work, and supports an extensive national network of local elected, appointed, and civic leaders.
About ActiVote
ActiVote is the nation’s largest and fastest-growing nonpartisan voter engagement platform, designed to make participating in democracy easier, more informed, and more accessible. ActiVote provides fact-based information about every election in which a user can vote—from school board races to federal offices—and offers unbiased comparisons of how a user’s policy preferences align with candidates’ publicly stated positions.
ActiVote is also a leader in high-quality public opinion research. Using rigorous weighting methods, ActiVote produces polling data that has been nationally recognized for accuracy.
In the 2024 election, ActiVote polls began to appear in the media and on prominent polling aggregators like FiveThirtyEight. ActiVote was ultimately recognized as the eighth most accurate pollster nationwide and the second most accurate in the presidential race. This same methodology powers the surveys used in communities through their partnership with the National Civic League.
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The survey takes a few minutes, needs no account, and every answer is anonymous.
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