The Monday Poll results: Voters like $800 million bond plan

Monday Poll readers favor spending city tax dollars on an animal shelter, bike routes and long-overdue improvements. Most of the nearly 500 respondents this week also want transparency in how the $800 million is spent. The full results:

1. The city properly decided to include a new animal shelter, at a public cost of an estimated $14 million, in the bond package.

Strongly agree 39%

Agree 28%

Disagree 18%

Strongly disagree 16%

2. City Manager Troy Schulte says this bond package will require a tax increase, partly so the city won’t have to divert current revenues from providing existing public services. That is the right approach.

Strongly agree 33%

Agree 37%

Disagree 15%

Strongly disagree 16%

3. City Hall does not need to release a long list of specific projects that the bonds would pay for because it’s hard to predict what the city’s priorities will be in a decade or more.

Strongly agree 10%

Agree 19%

Disagree 37%

Strongly disagree 34%

4. City officials say all future road repairs in the bond package also will include bike routes or other cycling infrastructure. But that really should just be done on well-traveled roads, to save money.

Strongly agree 20%

Agree 36%

Disagree 28%

Strongly disagree 16%