Survey Results by Location

"It'd be nice if we could take it one step at a time, but, you know, if we let it go too much further, nobody's really gonna want to live here. At least that's the way I feel. I think we're getting beat in other communities. Other communities are beating us to the punch here, in getting these things done. They have an understanding of it and we're missing the boat. And if we're gonna get some businesses to locate here, or keep the businesses growing over here, I just-I fear that we're just, you know, we really need to get busy and start changing how we're thinking about our communities' centers, and our transportation, and try to get some of these things taken care of." -Economic Development Group

"Most discouraging I’d say is the negativity. The negativity toward growth and expansion, negativity towards new industry coming in." -Economic Development Group

Citizens Speak

"It’s going the wrong way on the railroad track. The rest of this part of the world is moving ahead, and we’re going backwards. We are not keeping up." -Economic Development Group

"I think our weakness is in economic development. I think that in the past, the business community has been very non-progressive, about economic development." -Economic Development Group

"Well, you know, we sit here and we talk about the importance of agriculture, but something that’s very troubling to me is, when we talk about economic development, agriculture’s invisible." -Economic Development Group