2009 District 17 Constituent Survey Results
114 Surveys Returned

1. Do you believe that heavy trucks currently pay their fair share of road maintenance and construction costs?

Yes - 35%

No - 65%

2. Do you believe that a weight adjusted per mile fee (heavier vehicles pay more) is a better method of funding road maintenance than the current per gallon gas tax (which is a failing tax because of increasing vehicle gas mileage resulting in less funding per mile driven)?

Yes- 67%
No - 33%

3. $400 million of your tax money was used to create the state rainy-day funds.  Should they have been used to avoid the cuts that were made to public schools?

Yes - 72%
No - 28%

4. Would you support increasing access to college by increasing state funds of need-based student scholarships?

Yes - 67%
No - 33%

5. Oregon charges a small fee on utility bills to fund robust incentives for renewable energy projects.  Would you support a program like this in Idaho?

Yes - 53%
No - 47%

6.  Please grade the performance of Team 17 (A - F).

“A, B, C, D, F” Scale:

A - 48%, B - 33%, C - 14%, D - 4%, F - 1%