AGWG Civic Association

 A civic community voice
 Allanwood-Gayfields-Willson Hills-Gaywood Estates

AGWG 2006 Survey Results

2006 AGWG Community Survey Results
by Joe Giacalone

Sixty two percent of those renewing their membership submitted partial or complete responses to the survey.  By statistical standards, this exceeds the acceptable response rate of 50-60% followed by the Census Bureau for houseful surveys.

Community issues – unfortunately most respondents did not rate the five choices, but just checked which ones concerned them.
                                    Responses/Frequency
Crime                          20                19%
Road maintenance         23                22%
ICC Impacts                 34                33%
Development                 16               15%
Community Activities      10               10%

Of the respondents who did not rank the issues, 33% considered the ICC a major issue followed by road maintenance and then crime. One cannot conclude that the ICC is the primary or most important community issue, but only considered by residents as a major issue.

Of those that did rank these issues, the rankings were assigned the following values:  

1 Extremely important
2 Important
3 not very important
4 not important
5 not important at all

Combining all those labeling an issue as #1–very important and  #2-important, the biggest concern is crime, followed by road maintenance and the ICC (the difference between these two is not significant).  One may conclude that crime is a major concern, but roads and the ICC remain a major issue.  

Crime 83.3% - important (total of extremely important and important)
Road maintenance – 76%
ICC 75%
Development 35.3%
Community Activities 27.5%

When looking at only those ranked extremely important, no statistical significance between ICC and Crime is evident.  Both are identified as major concerns and significantly differ from the other choices available to the respondent, including road maintenance.

Crime                           50%
ICC                              46%
Road maintenance         33%
Development                 29%
Community Activities      12.5%


Website awareness      
Yes 77.4%        No 22.6%

Viewed website referral section
Yes 35%       No  65%
Community-wide efforts            %     #                     %      #

Road repaving                   Yes        84% (60)        No     6%   (4)
Trash collection                  Yes        71% (39)        No   29% (16)
Heating oil                         Yes        61% (34)       No    39% (22)
Planning community-wide activities                Yes     18% (10)         No 82% (45)
( I am creating a list of those who were interested in planning community activities)

Member database awareness                      Yes      72%      No 28%

Civic partnerships                                        Yes      72%      No   28%

County service numbers awareness            Yes     78%       No   22%

Raising Dues will influence your membership      Yes     14%      No   86%
  renewal.

Favor name change:                                     Yes 61% No 23%   No Opinion 16%   
   Other suggestions: Northwest Layhill;  Layhill North;  ( one respondent was vehemently opposed, but offered no suggestions)

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How can we better serve you?  (comments)

  • Get rid of speed bumps on Baughman after it is repaved and hold a Xmas party (could rent Argyle Country Club) or summer picnic in the triangle
  • Stop wasting money fighting the ICC
  • Keep up the good work
  • You are doing a very good job, Thank you
  • You are doing a good job
  • How about we change our mailing address to “Layhill”
  • Vehemently against name change, our name is our identity
  • You’re doing a great job
  • Share the budget information and current status of funds
  • Everything is fine
  • Continue the good service
  • Publish a financial report on dues collected, balance and where the money goes.  This should be done annually.
  • Should we establish a neighborhood watch program?
  • By continuing the good effort that you have been doing
  • Thank you for serving us so well
  • Slow down the traffic to protect children in the area, if possible
Care to raise an issue?  To voice your concerns on issues affecting our neighborhoods, or notify us of a community event, contact Admin@agwgcivicassociation.org.