Accuracy claim of survey in question

A Juneau-based professional survey manager this week questioned the stated accuracy of a recent Haines Borough facilities survey. The $9,000 contract for the survey was awarded to a member of the borough’s facilities committee without a bid.

Haines-based business consultant Lenise Henderson Fontenot reported that the results of the mail-in survey she conducted this fall carried “a 95 percent confidence level with a five percent margin of error.”

But Robert Koenitzer, a survey manager for…