Budget Survey -- Did it work?

It is interesting to see the link to and promotion of the Nanaimo City Services Survey or Citizen Budget Survey (it seems to have two names) show up on the City homepage at 2:45 P.M. on November 25th when in fact the survey closes on the 27th.  (It has been open since Nov.12th.)   I have suggested to council that this survey should be front and centre on the website, not buried.  

The original press release went out November 9th, and appeared on the Nanaimo.ca  homepage, but then vanished.This original release mentioned the objective being to gather 600 responses.  Could it be that the actual response rate has been far less, hence the last minute need to repost on the website?

This budget survey is in fact flawed in several ways.    First,  it seems that anyone can take  it,  any number of times.   Is there any way to ensure its validity?     And why in the survey is ‘somewhat important’ ranked higher than ‘important’  and why does only one category warrant  the option of “I don’t care”?   When one considers that the meagre attendance of the eForum budget input session and this survey seem to be the only formal processes of gathering input for the 2016 budget (and 5-year budget plan),  there is a problem.