Sharing Your Thoughts to Start 2025

Happy New Year Everyone!

Happy New Year Everyone!

And while 2025 has finally arrived, we can take a look at some of the events that might shape our civic life over the next year. Local elections will be on tap this year, which will surely mean a larger discussion on issues that matter to our hometowns. The Troy City Schools will be preparing buiding new schools in the community. West Main Street is scheduled to be completed by June. The Fire Training Facility Committee in Piqua will continue to do their work. Carriage Trails 2.0 will be commencing in the Bethel Township portion of Huber Heights. Everywhere we look, there will be a decision or a story or an event that will further shape our communities moving foward.

And we move foward, it’s important that your voices and your opinions are a part of that discussion. there is no better way to kick off the new year, than to ask our readers to take three to four minutes to fill out our bi-montly survey to have a gauge on how you feel our communities are doing.

These surveys have been truly dynamic. Your responses have helped demonstrate how public sentiment has changed over time, yet also show how the aspects of our community that we value the most have stayed the same. Every time I see the results of these surveys, I feel like I learn something new and novel about our community.

So today, I'm reaching out to you, our amazing and dependable readers, and asking you to take a few 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 in February, 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.

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; last month we have received a number of responses from Troy and Piqua and were able to provide an analysis of the survey results from both communities.

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. You can check out the channel here!

Yesterday, the video from the December 19th meeting of the Fire Facility Committee in Piqua was uploaded.

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