OKC Bond issue survey

[Keith]

Citizens make street resurfacing top priority in bond issue survey

Street resurfacing projects were the top priority item among citizens polled by the City in a scientific survey in December 2006. The survey was conducted to measure citizen priorities for a future bond issue.

Street resurfacing was the top priority for one-third of those responding, and was in the top three for 55 percent of the respondents.

Survey results indicate the top six improvements residents would like to see funded include:

• <LI class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Street resurfacing projects <LI class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Fire truck replacement <LI class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Street widening projects <LI class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Renovations or additions to existing City parks <LI class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Traffic signal improvements
• Police car replacement

Eighty-nine percent of those polled said they would vote for the bond issue if it meant no increase in property taxes. The City schedules bond issue elections so that new bond issue programs begin as old ones expire, keeping the property tax rate the same.

The survey was conducted by ETC Institute of Olathe, Kansas, which conducted a survey of citizen attitudes about City government in 2005.

In that survey, 77 percent of the citizens responding said street maintenance should be the top priority for City government in 2006 and 2007.

Both surveys are available on the City’s web site, City of Oklahoma City | News.

[jbrown84]

Glad to see a lot of people care about parks. It's a good sign for the future of Maps 3.