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CA NEWS
Survey says: COPs offers Sun City Texas a sense of security
By Larry Swim, chairman, COPs
The Sun City Texas Citizens on Patrol per hour. Using the lower hourly fig- COPs on the following (percentages
(COPs) is a more complex organization ure, patrol hours provided by a private of very satisfied responses):
than many residents realize. In addition firm would cost the community about
to driving the cars on patrol, we have $450,000 annually. Willingness to assist - 83% very satisfied
a staff that operates a virtual office, a
scheduler, a maintenance manager, The Community Association recently Provided a solution to situation - 71%
a statistician, a webmaster, a train- conducted a survey on how the residents very satisfied
ing manager and two special activities regarded the COPs services. The results
units. Currently, our membership is are as follows: Friendliness - 87% very satisfied
about 240.
Question 1. Are you aware of Sun Communications with Sun City Texas
2016 was an impressive year. Here are City COPs’ duties and how they are residents - 76% very satisfied
the numbers that were compiled by our performed?
statistician: Question 5. Do you feel the COPs
Almost 81% of the respondents indicat- program contributes to the secu-
– 14,600 hours of volunteer time. ed yes, they did have some knowledge of rity and tranquility of Sun City
how the duties are performed. Texas?
– 7430 hours patrolling Sun City Texas.
Question 2. Have you or an ac- Responders strongly agreed 61% or
– 71,000 miles driven on patrol. quaintance ever requested COPs agreed somewhat 27%.
assistance?
– $383,000 - the value of the volunteer Question 7. Gender
hours based on the formula used by 14% of respondents indicated they had
the City of Georgetown for calculat- requested assistance. 41% of the respondents were women;
ing the value of volunteers to the city. 58% men
Question 3. If you received assis-
To provide a measure of the value of tance from the COPs, how would Question 8. Age
the COPs to Sun City Texas, the an- you rate this assistance?
nual budget set by the Community As- Two thirds of the responders fell be-
sociation for this program is a little over The majority (about 80%) of the people tween the ages of 65 and 80.
$21,000. We recently contacted private answering this question indicated that
security firms to see what they charge. the COPs had provided assistance that Question 6 was a write-in question. We
Their costs ranged from $60 to $80 was either somewhat or very helpful. will cover some of the topics brought up
in subsequent articles.
Question 4. How would you rate the
Would you like to do a ride-along with
the COPs? Contact Nancy Fronczak
at [email protected].
NONPROFIT FAIR
Representatives from area nonprofits tend to
their booths at the Nonprofit Fair in February.
Left: Rita Turner from The Caring Place visits
with a Sun City resident; below, members from
the American Legion Post 174 stand ready to
answer questions about their group.
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