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June 10, 2009
BETTER PENSACOLA FORUM TO CONDUCT "QUALITY OF LIFE SURVEY"
Survey hopes to improve quality of life in Escambia County
PENSACOLA, Fla. (June 10, 2009) - Better Pensacola Forum has announced plans to conduct the 2009 Quality of Life Survey for Escambia County this fall. Jerry Maygarden, executive director of the Better Pensacola Forum, hopes that the survey will help improve the quality of life for all Escambia County residents, adding "We honestly believe better results will come from a better understanding of the facts."
For the first time the Better Pensacola Forum will be offering an on-line version of the opinion poll at www.betterpensacola.org. Of this new format, Maygarden, says "Thanks to the web, we are able to include more participants in our survey efforts. Our website is a user-friendly method for continuing a healthy dialogue about the complex problems facing our community, region and state."
Denise Ivey, managing trustee for the Better Pensacola Forum, hopes that by offering the survey online they will receive a larger collection of opinions, adding, "There are a lot of salient issues on the minds of local citizens and we welcome broad-based sharing of opinion."
Conducting the survey is Larry Harris of Mason-Dixon Polling and Research who will be in Pensacola this week interviewing local stakeholders, business leaders and politicians to determine the level of community improvement since the 2008 survey.
The 2008 survey uncovered a community anxiety regarding local leadership and the general direction in which the community was headed. Some of trends revealed in the survey included a large number of concerns over economic hardships and wide-spread support for the Waterfront/Maritime Park.
Of the 2008 findings, Maygarden said, "The public was dead-on regarding the pending economic crisis, and dissatisfaction with local leadership may have impacted the fall elections."
Maygarden believes that the survey provided much of the impetuous for a group of young professionals to form Escambia All for One. "The All for One initiative hopes to consolidate city and county governments," Maygarden said, "creating, in their words, 'a more efficient and effective governance structure' for all the people of this area."
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The Better Pensacola Forum, Inc., a nonprofit community-based organization, was established in 2008 by a small group of local citizens who have invested a substantial portion of their lives and livelihoods in the greater Pensacola area. For more information visit www.betterpensacola.org
BETTER PENSACOLA FORUM TO CONDUCT "QUALITY OF LIFE SURVEY"
Survey hopes to improve quality of life in Escambia County
PENSACOLA, Fla. (June 10, 2009) - Better Pensacola Forum has announced plans to conduct the 2009 Quality of Life Survey for Escambia County this fall. Jerry Maygarden, executive director of the Better Pensacola Forum, hopes that the survey will help improve the quality of life for all Escambia County residents, adding "We honestly believe better results will come from a better understanding of the facts."
For the first time the Better Pensacola Forum will be offering an on-line version of the opinion poll at www.betterpensacola.org. Of this new format, Maygarden, says "Thanks to the web, we are able to include more participants in our survey efforts. Our website is a user-friendly method for continuing a healthy dialogue about the complex problems facing our community, region and state."
Denise Ivey, managing trustee for the Better Pensacola Forum, hopes that by offering the survey online they will receive a larger collection of opinions, adding, "There are a lot of salient issues on the minds of local citizens and we welcome broad-based sharing of opinion."
Conducting the survey is Larry Harris of Mason-Dixon Polling and Research who will be in Pensacola this week interviewing local stakeholders, business leaders and politicians to determine the level of community improvement since the 2008 survey.
The 2008 survey uncovered a community anxiety regarding local leadership and the general direction in which the community was headed. Some of trends revealed in the survey included a large number of concerns over economic hardships and wide-spread support for the Waterfront/Maritime Park.
Of the 2008 findings, Maygarden said, "The public was dead-on regarding the pending economic crisis, and dissatisfaction with local leadership may have impacted the fall elections."
Maygarden believes that the survey provided much of the impetuous for a group of young professionals to form Escambia All for One. "The All for One initiative hopes to consolidate city and county governments," Maygarden said, "creating, in their words, 'a more efficient and effective governance structure' for all the people of this area."
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The Better Pensacola Forum, Inc., a nonprofit community-based organization, was established in 2008 by a small group of local citizens who have invested a substantial portion of their lives and livelihoods in the greater Pensacola area. For more information visit www.betterpensacola.org
