Survey reveals Brookhaven residents more satisfied with services, police, quality of life than in 2023

Results of a latest survey show that Brookhaven residents are satisfied with Brookhaven s services City of Brookhaven A survey about Brookhaven citizens perception of the quality of life and services provided by the city show a marked improvement compared to Spoiler alert we ve have particular pretty good results here stated Brookhaven City Manager Christian Sigman before the presentation The poll conducted by the ETC Institute which also surveyed citizens in concluded that residents are preponderance satisfied with police services percent parks and recreation programs and facilities percent and maintenance of the city s buildings and facilities percent Robert Heacock senior manager of the ETC Institute who presented before the council at its Dec work session disclosed the goal was to gather surveys which was met with responses The surveys were mailed and posted online The results demonstrated the highest rated quality-of-life items were as a place to live raise family percent overall quality of life percent and as a place to work percent Brookhaven was rated significantly higher than the Southeast regional and U S averages in majority of categories of city services assessed with numbers in the percent range compared with percent in the other two categories the survey revealed Numbers compared to the poll evidenced citizens rated of the services higher in the survey Heacock commented The categories that saw declines included the width of sidewalks a decrease of percent and whether or not Brookhaven was a good place to open a business a decline of eight percent The areas that citizens rated higher in the survey related to amenities at Lynwood Park percent the availability of information about city programs services percent police safety mentoring programs percent and the effectiveness of city communication with the general percent Heacock complimented the city for taking action to address areas of concern pointed out by respondents in the survey After one survey you can tell that the city manager and the staff took this to heart as well as your department heads Heacock reported Areas where respondents spoke of their concerns about the city included break-ins traffic violations murder and drug-related crime the poll revealed Council members required Heacock for feedback regarding the questions He suggested reducing the number of questions related to police institution along with refining questions further to discover more specific geographic concerns The post Survey reveals Brookhaven residents more satisfied with services police quality of life than in appeared first on Rough Draft Atlanta