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Lane County voters are generally unfamiliar with the budget situation. It has not reached critical mass with the general voting public.

QUESTION
How familiar do you feel you are with the Lane County budget situation very familiar, somewhat familiar, somewhat unfamiliar, or very unfamiliar?

METHODOLOGY
200 telephone interviews of a random sample of Lane County likely 2012 General Election voters were conducted February 29 through March 2, 2012. The margin of error at the sample median is 7 percent. The percentages might not add up to 100 percent due to rounding.

Familiar includes very familiar and somewhat familiar.

Unfamiliar includes very i and somewhat unfamiliar as well as those without an opinion.

Including additional public safety dollars in a property tax measure to plug the deficit hole would improve its chances, but the measure would still be unlikely to pass.

QUESTION
Would you support or oppose a Lane County government countywide property tax levy that would maintain current services levels and add a limited increase dedicated to public safety services?

METHODOLOGY
200 telephone interviews of a random sample of Lane County likely 2012 General Election voters were conducted February 29 through March 2, 2012. The margin of error at the sample median is 7 percent.

A property tax measure that would only make up the deficit and not include any special public safety increase would fail if it were voted on now.

QUESTION
Would you support or oppose a Lane County government countywide property tax levy that would erase the Lane County budget deficit and maintain current service levels?

METHODOLOGY
200 telephone interviews of a random sample of Lane County likely 2012 General Election voters were conducted February 29 through March 2, 2012. The margin of error at the sample median is 7 percent.

People are generally evenly split on their rating of the local public safety system in Lane County.

The question was deliberately worded in order to bring out the role of city public safety.

QUESTION
How would you rate the job the overall local Public Safety System is doing: excellent, good, fair, poor?

METHODOLOGY
200 telephone interviews of a random sample of Lane County likely 2012 General Election voters were conducted February 29 through March 2, 2012. The margin of error at the sample median is 7 percent. The percentages might not add up to 100 percent due to rounding.

The countywide rating is not good. Only 14 percent approve and 74 percent disapprove.

QUESTION
How would you rate the job Lane County Board of Commissioners is doing: excellent, good, fair, poor?

METHODOLOGY
200 telephone interviews of a random sample of Lane County likely 2012 General Election voters were conducted February 29 through March 2, 2012. The margin of error at the sample median is 7 percent. The percentages might not add up to 100 percent due to rounding.

By a better than two-to-one margin, people see Lane County heading in the wrong direction.

QUESTION
In general, do you feel Lane County is heading in the right direction or do you think things have gotten off on the wrong track?

METHODOLOGY
200 telephone interviews of a random sample of Lane County likely 2012 General Election voters were conducted February 29 through March 2, 2012. The margin of error at the sample median is 7 percent.