Survey says: Residents want to see improvements in economic development, roads and sidewalks, and police services
The results are in from Sackville’s 2021 residents’ survey. 323 residents responded this year, the highest number in the four years that the town has conducted the survey.
Senior manager of corporate projects Kieran Miller says the information collected in the survey is used to help staff and council make decisions. “It really gives us kind of a touch point on where the community stands on a couple of different areas,” says Miller. “It helps set budget planning priorities, where we put resources, thinking about future projects and what we’re going to do next year. It really helps us make some of those decisions. So the more people that fill it out, the better.”
The town published selected results in an infographic on social media:
At CHMA’s request, Miller provided the full numerical results.
Survey respondents are not selected randomly, so the results have to be taken with a statistical grain of salt, as they don’t necessarily represent the opinions of the wider population of Sackville.
Overall, just about 74% of the survey respondents said they were mostly or very satisfied with the quality of life in Sackville. That’s down from 81% in the 2020 survey.
In their infographic, the town identified policing services and transparency as the “top two areas that could improve”, although the two issues do not appear in any of the multiple choice questions in the survey.
Policing and transparency were mentioned by survey respondents in a question asking for “the one most important issue facing your community that you feel should receive the greatest attention from your local leaders in the coming year.”… Continue