QUESTIONNAIRE - VALUABLE INFORMATION
A questionnaire focused on assistance which may be needed by community residents, skills or knowledge that residents are willing to share with others and community facilities or activities needed or desired by local residents. In addition to distributing survey questionnaires at the July 4 celebration, the questionnaires were included with The Booster, a community newsletter, and were available at five locations in town.
The questionnaire gave community members the opportunity to share their thoughts anonymously, regardless of economic or social situation.
Of the 84 questionnaires that were returned, information was most requested for help with yard or home maintenance, help with heating assistance or utilities and help with transportation.
Skills and knowledge community members are willing to share included providing transportation, lawn mowing, gardening and landscaping, reading with kids at school and library, arts and crafts and home maintenance.
Community activities and facilities most requested were movies in the park, river activities, weekly kid’s activities, frisbee and putt-putt golf, ice skating rink, snow sledding hill and a splash pad.
Groups having similar interests were gardening and landscaping, card playing, arts and crafts, book club, quilting, and genealogy.
Requested community classes were computer, gardening and landscaping and fitness and aerobics.
Information from the questionnaire has been used throughout LeadershipPlenty® and Celebrate OJ. Several suggestions have been put into action by the work groups and plans are to use the information for future programs.