On Oct. 18, the City Council of Sterling Heights voted to award the contract for the 2005 Sterling Heights Residential Survey to the Center for Urban Studies at Wayne State . The survey will be sent randomly to 3,000 people in the Sterling Heights area. The survey will cost the city $23,167 and will ask residents of their opinion on the police and fire departments in the city. The survey will allow the residents to rate the city services as excellent, good, fair or poor.