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1986 Metropolitan Community First Banks Members F~rsl Bank System Quality of Life Report Introduction Can our quality of life be mea- sured? If so, is it improving or declin- ing over the years? And what can we do to make it better? This is the fourth in a series of First Banks reports on the Quality of Life in the Twin Cities. Beginning with a two- page "Social-Environmental Audit" in 1972, the report has been expanded to provide original data--notably the perceptions and attitudes of the public at large and of selected community leaders. The statistical indicators point out problems in education, teen-age un- employment, certain health and en- vironmental measures and in public transportation, as well as improve- ments in charitable contributions and traffic safety. In addition to the statistical indi- cators, this report contains results of the 1986 First Banks Poll, in which: · The public and community lead- ers generally agreed on communities' priorities as reflected in spending for education, welfare, public safety, cul- ture and recreation, and environmen- tal control. But compared with com- munity leaders, the public rated spending on health and housing more important and gave transportation and administration lower priorities. · The public gave significantly higher spending priorities to health and housing than in 1981. · Compared with community lead- ers, a larger percentage of the public was very satisfied with the quality of education and with crime prevention. Conversely, a larger percentage of leaders was very satisfied with the quality of medical care, the quality of Continued on page 2 PERCEPTIONS: Satisfaction I I I General Public ~ Community Leaders Less than very satisfied Very satisfied Quality education/or children The quality of medical care Employment opportunities in the Oime Vreventio. T ....... . ..... .:......:....! .J ti.. Assistance for economicaUy disadvantaged families Current environmental standards ] ! The quality of housing Moving freely and easily from place to place Number of volunteer orl~anizations and opportu ni ty for political participation Diversity of cultural and arts offerings Public school efforts to prepaxe children for the future II QUALITY OF LIFE FOCUS: Children and Senior Citizens ~[ ExceLlent ~ Good ~ Only Fair ~ Poor ~ Don't Know/Refused How do you r-ate the Twin Cities How do you rate the Twin area as a place for children and Cities area ~s a place for senior teens to grow up in? citizens to live in? 103 80 60 40 20 o Leaders Public Leaders Public PAC}