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NR conducts tax authority survey

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Comments

CubFan

Thank you News-Register for conducting your own survey. You did a good job of explaining the financial implications to taxpayers of the $1.50 charge and what it means in dollars and cents. I can't wait to hear the results of your survey.

BC

Thanks NR for doing an honest survey where people can only vote once through a legitimate survey service.

Your survey spelled everything out clearly, gave clear options, and didn't lead the reader into any particular direction. A good survey does that. The city's survey did none of the above.

BigfootLives

Jeb, Did you spend $36,000 on your survey?

BC

Hey Bigfoot, now THAT was funny!

BigfootLives

It would only have been funny if we hadn’t spent $36,000 on the other one.

tagup

687 votes for $36,000…$52.40/ response…kinda spendy!

aesquire

Thank you for running this survey. Unfortunately, I found it difficult to form an opinion about the whether the city should levy some, all or none of the optional $1.50 per $1,000 valuation tax without information about the services that would be impacted if the tax was *not* levied. Has the City provided a detailed statement about the services that would be impacted? Or the extent to which those services would be impacted?

At https://iheartmac.org/en/projects/dollars-and-sense the City claims that its "parks and library infrastructure are outdated" and its "police, planning, and public works departments are under-staffed." This may well be the case, but what are the metrics employed by the City to make these claims? How many police officers and public works employees *should* a City the size of McMinnville employ?

I'm not reflexively anti-tax or anti-government, but I'm also not enthused at the prospect of paying an additional $500-700 per year in taxes without more information about why those funds are needed.

Angela Flood

I am not a Mac resident but I do work here.
I am curious about this levy, voted for fire services it seems, and then redirected?
Didn't the city add additional fees to the utility bills to cover a budget shortage they couldn't pin down not that long ago?
This whole decision about keeping money meant for one thing but going to another, without a vote by the folks footing the bill, seems a bit disingenuous.
The new FD has expenses due to the change. I feel like the levy money should follow them, if it can't just be discontinued.

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