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San Diego Citizen Survey Reveals Spending Priorities
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People living in San Diego would be willing to pay more to maintain city streets. But they don't support spending money to increase neighborhood parking. Those are some of the results from a new survey that will be presented to the city council Wednesday.
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SAN DIEGO — People living in San Diego would be willing to pay more to maintain city streets. But they don't support spending money to increase neighborhood parking. Those are some of the results from a new survey that will be presented to the city council Wednesday.
The telephone survey of 600 citizens was sponsored by the city council's Independent Budget Analyst. The results will be presented to a special meeting of the budget and finance committee with includes the full city council. More than half of the respondents reported being satisfied with how the city delivers services.
Nearly 75 percent believe San Diego needs to outsource some of those services as a way to save money. The survey was conducted as part of an effort to eliminate the city's structural budget deficit. San Diego spends more money than it takes in.
The budget analyst has suggested 11 guiding principles for eliminating that deficit including prioritizing city services using the information gathered from this survey.
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LGMike | April 21, 2010 at 10:52 a.m. ― 3 years, 1 month ago
Out of a City of over half a million persons, posting a results of only 600 persons is not even close to a representation. Also, the survey said they called 600 persons, is this the total response , or is the people who responded less than 600. Lets get real numbers, get a response of at least 25% of the households and let us know the economic status of respondents (ie: average income per respondent), then you start to get a feel of how people rate the city and the spending priorities.
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Katie Orr | April 21, 2010 at 1:31 p.m. ― 3 years, 1 month ago
You can read the full results of the survey here: http://bit.ly/a3gfoE
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