Abstract:
The purposes of this study were to examine and compare a level of opinions among community committee towards the implementation of strategic development plans of Napa Municipality as classified by the members gender, age, educational level, occupation, length of holding position, and community in which the positions held. Also, this study aimed at investigating other suggestions made by the community committee on the implementation of strategic development plans of Napa Municipality. The subjects participating in this study comprised 108 community committee members who belonged to 13 communities, located in Chonburi Province. The instrument used to collect the data was a questionnaire. The statistical tests used to analyze the collected data included frequency, percentage, means, and standard deviation. Also, to test the research hypotheses, the tests of t-test and One-way ANOVA were administered. The results of this study revealed that the level of opinions among community committeess towards the implementation of strategic development plans of Napa Municipality was found at a high level. Specifically, there were six aspects that were rated bythe subjects at a high level. The aspect in relation to the development of quality of life and society was rated the highest, followed by the development of politics and administration, prevention and solution of narcotic drug problems, basic infrastructure, natural resources and environment, and economy, respectively. According to the comparison, the opinions amongcommunity committee with different gender, age, educational level and occupation were not different. But the opinion of those with different length of holding position and community in which the positions held were different by the statistics significant level at .05.