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SURVEY HIGHLIGHTS
— 68 percent said the city is heading in the right direction and has made progress in the past 12 months.
— 37 percent ranked the city’s overall condition as “average,” while 46 percent ranked its condition as below average or poor.
— Job creation and crime reduction ranked high as ways to reduce the city’s high poverty rate.
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Potholes ranked high as the biggest problem with streets and sidewalks.
Other street problems that ranked high: cracked pavement, bad drainage,
broken sidewalks and a lack of sidewalks.
— Most of the survey
respondents — 63 percent — said they have lived in Lake Worth for more
than 10 years. In all, 84 percent said they own homes in the city.
Commissioner John Szerdi said some of the survey results, such as low
use of sports programs, don’t seem to match his observations. He
suggested that future surveys be published in English and Spanish. Commissioner, our official language in this State is ENGLISH... you are aiding and abetting and wanting to use tax dollars to encourage the failure of immigrants to learn English.
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What progress?
Everyone likes the sheriff but complains about all the crime. The sheriff costs us 65% or more of our budget and we have crime like freaking Detroit.
"Commissioner John Szerdi said some of the survey results, such as low use of sports programs, don’t seem to match his observations".
What an arrogant ass. Who cares what the little peons he is supposed to representing think. IT'S ALL ABOUT WHAT HE THINKS!
Szerdi is right. The youth rec programs in the city are full. That's the problem with these sorts of surveys. The response demographic is skewed.
When I was on the Finance Board we discussed this. Some of the board members felt that a survey should include all residents of the city and that a survey should be mailed in the utility bill, not just accessed online. If the city was committed to hearing from ALL residents, the survey would have been conducted that way.
Also, I have several email addresses. I responded to the survey once, but easily could have submitted five or more responses if I was inclined. I'm sure some people did that. A survey like this should be more carefully constructed and administered. It was obvious that some of the questions were designed with political motives, and the mayor's requests for more demographic information is for political campaign targeting. As if they needed feedback about code enforcement and the condition of the city.
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