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%