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quite a number of activities and participants as well. However, can the activities organized by us really meet the needs of the public? And how do the participants think about our activities? These are the areas we should explore.

We understand that in formulating the directions for each year's activities, the Department would gather information on the level of provision as well as the popularity of the activities and the participants' satisfaction with the activities. However, the surveys are done in a piece-meal manner and irregularly. In formulating the annual plan for recreational and sports activities, the Department would also take into consideration the distribution and age profile of the population, and the provision of various recreational and sports activities in the urban area as well as the allocation of resources and the demand and supply for recreational and sports activities. However, I have received feedback from the public that the Department is merely feeling its way forward in formulating the plans, i.e. their way of planning is based on guessing or on the past experience, and in the process, a top-down approach is adopted while the participants are rarely consulted. Nothing more than counting the number of participants will be done in assessing the popularity of a certain activity and deciding whether the activity should be organized again in the coming year. I do not deny that the level of participation is one of the indicators of popularity of the activities. However, it seems that we do not have any other more comprehensive data apart from that to substantiate the formulation of the direction of recreation development or the annual plan for our activities.

Personally, I think the Council should regularly collect public opinions and quantify these opinions to establish a more objective basis for formulation and adjustment of the directions and future strategies for recreational and sports activities in line with district needs. For example, recently the Sham Shui Po District Office (Recreation, Amenities and Sports) has changed the time and venue for holding an elderly fitness class in the Po On Road Indoor Games Hall. As a result, Mr. Eric Wong Chung-ki, an ADPL member, received a lot of complaints from the participants that the Department has neither consulted them beforehand nor given them a detailed explanation for the change afterwards. Instead, they were simply informed that the change was due to resources or time constraints. As a result, the participants would naturally feel that their opinions were being neglected.

In order to avoid unilateral action or sole dependence on our experience in policy-making, I think that the Department should allow participants to express their views. Conducting scientific surveys is also a good method for us to find out the demand for recreational and sports activities by the public in various districts and to learn if their aspirations have been changed in order that the Department can formulate policies as early as possible to meet the expectations of the public.

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Page 467 of 485 178 HONG KONG URBAN COUNCIL quite a number of activities and participants as well. However, can the activities organized by us really meet the needs of the public? And how do the participants think about our activities? These are the areas we should explore. We understand that in formulating the directions for each year's activities, the Department would gather information on the level of provision as well as the popularity of the activities and the participants' satisfaction with the activities. However, the surveys are done in a piece-meal manner and irregularly. In formulating the annual plan for recreational and sports activities, the Department would also take into consideration the distribution and age profile of the population, and the provision of various recreational and sports activities in the urban area as well as the allocation of resources and the demand and supply for recreational and sports activities. However, I have received feedback from the public that the Department is merely feeling its way forward in formulating the plans, i.e. their way of planning is based on guessing or on the past experience, and in the process, a top-down approach is adopted while the participants are rarely consulted. Nothing more than counting the number of participants will be done in assessing the popularity of a certain activity and deciding whether the activity should be organized again in the coming year. I do not deny that the level of participation is one of the indicators of popularity of the activities. However, it seems that we do not have any other more comprehensive data apart from that to substantiate the formulation of the direction of recreation development or the annual plan for our activities. Personally, I think the Council should regularly collect public opinions and quantify these opinions to establish a more objective basis for formulation and adjustment of the directions and future strategies for recreational and sports activities in line with district needs. For example, recently the Sham Shui Po District Office (Recreation, Amenities and Sports) has changed the time and venue for holding an elderly fitness class in the Po On Road Indoor Games Hall. As a result, Mr. Eric Wong Chung-ki, an ADPL member, received a lot of complaints from the participants that the Department has neither consulted them beforehand nor given them a detailed explanation for the change afterwards. Instead, they were simply informed that the change was due to resources or time constraints. As a result, the participants would naturally feel that their opinions were being neglected. In order to avoid unilateral action or sole dependence on our experience in policy-making, I think that the Department should allow participants to express their views. Conducting scientific surveys is also a good method for us to find out the demand for recreational and sports activities by the public in various districts and to learn if their aspirations have been changed in order that the Department can formulate policies as early as possible to meet the expectations of the public. Page 467 of 485 Page 467 of 485
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quite a number of activities and participants as well. However, can the activities organized by us really meet the needs of the public? And how do the participants think about our activities? These are the areas we should explore.

We understand that in formulating the directions for each year's activities, the Department would gather information on the level of provision as well as the popularity of the activities and the participants' satisfaction with the activities. However, the surveys are done in a piece-meal manner and irregularly. In formulating the annual plan for recreational and sports activities, the Department would also take into consideration the distribution and age profile of the population, and the provision of various recreational and sports activities in the urban area as well as the allocation of resources and the demand and supply for recreational and sports activities. However, I have received feedback from the public that the Department is merely feeling its way forward in formulating the plans, i.e. their way of planning is based on guessing or on the past experience, and in the process, a top-down approach is adopted while the participants are rarely consulted. Nothing more than counting the number of participants will be done in assessing the popularity of a certain activity and deciding whether the activity should be organized again in the coming year. I do not deny that the level of participation is one of the indicators of popularity of the activities. However, it seems that we do not have any other more comprehensive data apart from that to substantiate the formulation of the direction of recreation development or the annual plan for our activities.

Personally, I think the Council should regularly collect public opinions and quantify these opinions to establish a more objective basis for formulation and adjustment of the directions and future strategies for recreational and sports activities in line with district needs. For example, recently the Sham Shui Po District Office (Recreation, Amenities and Sports) has changed the time and venue for holding an elderly fitness class in the Po On Road Indoor Games Hall. As a result, Mr. Eric Wong Chung-ki, an ADPL member, received a lot of complaints from the participants that the Department has neither consulted them beforehand nor given them a detailed explanation for the change afterwards. Instead, they were simply informed that the change was due to resources or time constraints. As a result, the participants would naturally feel that their opinions were being neglected.

In order to avoid unilateral action or sole dependence on our experience in policy-making, I think that the Department should allow participants to express their views. Conducting scientific surveys is also a good method for us to find out the demand for recreational and sports activities by the public in various districts and to learn if their aspirations have been changed in order that the Department can formulate policies as early as possible to meet the expectations of the public.

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