ROLES OF COMMUNITY LEADERS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNITY UTILITY SYSTEM IN NAKHON SI THAMMARAT CITY MUNICIPALITY AREA 1

Abstract

This thematic paper aimed to study 1) roles of community leaders in the development of community utility in Nakhon Si Thammarat City Municipality Area 1, 2) problems and obstacles to developing the community utility in Nakhon Si Thammarat City Municipality Area 1, and 3) the guidelines for the development of community utility in Nakhon Si Thammarat City Municipality Area 1. The population was 18,043 people in Nakhon Si Thammarat Municipality Area 1. The sample group's size was determined using the Krejcie & Morgan's ready-made table. The researcher employed the stratified random sampling technique to get the sample group consisting of 377 people by dividing the population into small groups and using the random sampling to get the sample group under the proportion of the sample's size. A research tool used to collect the data was a questionnaire. The data were analyzed using the application package, and the statistics used in this research were percentage, mean, and standard deviation.

The results showed that;

1. Roles of community leaders on the development of community utility in Nakhon Si Thammarat City Municipality Area 1 in all four aspects were average. When considering each aspect arranged in descending order, it was found that the road aspect had the highest average ( =3.58), followed by the electrical aspect ( =3.52), and the garbage aspect had the lowest average ( =3.16).

2. Problems and obstacles to developing community utility in Nakhon Si Thammarat City Municipality Area 1 were as follows:  the water supply became turbid, yellow, and fetid to be undrinkable for the people, no water or low water flow, and a regular broken water main.