Email from the City of Calgary that was sent with Survey results in previous post

Dear Resident of Acadia:

Thank you very much for your interest in the Strong Neighbourhood Initiative. Some of you participated in a resident gathering in October-November of 2011 where we provided more specific information about this initiative. To those of you who did, we thank you for your time and input.   As promised at the gathering, this letter is to update you on the Strong Neighbourhood activities and let you know about the next steps. 

At the gatherings, we presented residents with the information collected through brief surveys, graffiti walls (residents writing ideas on paper attached to a wall) and previous resident gatherings; and participants had a chance to build upon what others offered. In terms of information, we collected everybody’s ideas and have provided you with an updated version of them.  Some of these ideas are related to living within a geographic area such as outdoor recreational activities and facilities, high level of traffic, amenities, etc. Be assured that we will make sure that all these concerns are kept in mind as we progress forward. At the gatherings, it was apparent that people enjoyed meeting neighbours and had a good time engaging in conversation with them. We will keep this in mind by allowing time for socializing in our future plans.  

As next steps, we will be hosting a meeting with those people who expressed an interest in taking the initial ideas further. At the same time, we will continue meeting with residents who don’t know about the initiative by having smaller scale gatherings at different locations in Acadia.

Another piece of update is about the surveys. Last fall, we were busy collecting a total of 613 surveys both in-person and on-line. Five people were the lucky winners to gift cards from the names of those entered for survey prizes. We will be letting you and the rest of the community know about the results of the surveys when the compilation of the data is completed.

We will be in touch with you to let you know about new developments and concrete initiatives that people might be interested in pursuing. In the meantime, you can find information about SNI at:

  http://acadiastrongneighbourhoodinitiative.blogspot.com/

                                                                                          

Thank you again for your participation and ideas.

Tamara Baldwin

403-537-7582, Tamara.baldwin@calgary.ca

Viviana Reinberg

403-537-7596, viviana.reinberg@calgary.ca

Viviana Reinberg, MSW, RSW Community Social Worker Community & Neighbourhood Services, The City of Calgary South Area, 502 Heritage Drive SW Mailing address: P.O. Box 2100, Stn. M, # 100, T2P 2M5                    
403, 537-7596,  Fax: 403, 221-3568

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