Introducing our May Community Survey!
Tell us how you feel about your hometown!
Back when this project started two years ago, this newsletter was imagined as a helpful tool to not only help have our residents understand their community, but also to receive feedback and get ideas on how residents thought where our hometowns was headed.
In order to achieve that goal, the decision was made to release a small survey that would ask residents their thoughts and feelings every two months. Every month seemed excessive, yet, once a quarter didn’t seem quite frequent enough. The idea was to help create a picture of the sentiment in the community and measure that sentiment over time.
So today, I'm reaching out to you, our amazing and dependable readers, and asking you to take a mere three minutes to fill out this survey. Let us know what you think about the place you call home.
In a future edition of the Civic Capacity newsletter next month, this publication will take the time to provide thoughtful and careful analysis of the answers this publication received and, more importantly, review the trends that the data is showing.
A lot has happened in our local communities over the past two months. New housing developments were announced in Tipp City, annexation legislation has moved foward impacting Bethel Township and primary elections took place in Troy.
These surveys are not just an opportunity for your thoughts and feelings to be heard—although it definitely is that. It's also a chance to gain a better understanding of how your community is perceived by your friends and neighbors, and for you to have a say in that process.
Also, it doesn’t matter what your hometown is; we will take responses from all communities! However, we will only publish results if we have enough responses from a community to warrant publishing the results.
You can access the survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PF6SPPN
Thanks for your time and your participation! It is greatly appreciated!
Check out our New YouTube Channel!
Our goal with the Civic Capacity YouTube Channel is to be a centralized location where residents can watch videos of local government meetings in action and also provide comments and insights.
The Troy Chamber of Commerce recently released videos of candidates for office in the May Primary Election. With the chamber’s permission, we have placed those videos on our YouTube channel!
You can check out the channel here!
Thank you to our New Media Partners!
Recently, many of our stories has been showing up on the local news website, www.mymiamicounty.com. We are grateful for the good folks for sharing our work with their audience and we would encourage our readers to check them out at their website!
Our publication would also like to recognize the good work being done at www.piquanewsnow.com. Piqua News Now is a new web-based news and information site for the Miami County area, with a specific focus on Piqua!
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