The Evaluation of the Savannah, Georgia Weed and Seed Program

Document Type

Report

Publication Date

6-2000

Publication Title

Armstrong Atlantic State University Public Service Center

Abstract

Technical Summary: In 1999, the Armstrong Atlantic State University Public Service Center contracted with the Georgia Governor’s Criminal Justice Coordinating Council to conduct a reevaluation of select “weed” side programs and services of the City of Savannah’s ongoing Weed and Seed Project for Calendar Year 1999. The program had been initiated in January 1995 and had last been evaluated by the University of Charleston Institute for Public Affairs and Policy Analysis at year-end 1997. The current evaluation employed three sources of information to arrive at the findings contained herein: 1) A household community satisfaction survey of a randomized sample of residents in the Savannah Weed and Seed area; 2) A survey of police officers participating in the “weed” portion of the program, along with Weed and Seed committee meeting minutes and quarterly reports; and 3) Reported crime incident data from the target area and from the City of Savannah. The household survey, conducted over the period of about 45 days, contacted at random 1,190 target households to obtain a sample of 341 respondents for a 95 percent confidential interval and an error rate of ±5 percent. To permit comparability, this survey was constructed to reflect as closely as possible the University of Charleston door-to-door survey conducted in the same target area in September, 1997.

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Submitted to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

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