Community Visioning


Staff Contact:

Avera Wynne, AICP
Planning Director
4000 Gateway Centre Blvd.
Suite 100
Pinellas Park, Florida 33782
Phone: (727)570-5151 ext. 30 Fax: (727)570-5118


Community Visioning

Audience Response System (ARS)

Audience Response System

Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council has acquired an Interactive Audience Response System. The system consists of credit card sized keypads, receivers, and software. Participants answer questions displayed on a screen and receive answer confirmation on their ResponseCard through two-way communication. Successful transmissions are acknowledged on the participant’s keypad via a three second long visual green light signal. In addition to displaying the audience response instantly on-screen, the TurningPoint software can perform demographic slicing of all responses in countless ways. Currently the Council owns 200 keypads but can add additional keypads for larger events.


Let the Tampa Bay regional planning council move your next meeting into the 21st century!

Click on the links to see some example of projects that utilized the Audience Response System (ARS):

Audience Response system
  • Tampa Bay Water ~ Long-Term Water Supply Planning - www.futurewater.org
    Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council conducted the meetings, produced the newsletters and designed a website to post the information.
  • Sumter Vison 2030
    Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council conducted the ARS (polling).
  • One Bay
  • Sarasota ~ Connecting the Bay

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