Economy

How much should the city spend to help local business recover from the pandemic?

Context:

City council approved $5.3 million in financial support for local businesses in June 2020. The funds, which have already supported nearly 2,000 individual businesses, will continue to be available until funding is fully utilized.

Candidate responses Voter responses

Candidate responses

A total of 67 candidates have responded to the survey. Here's how they answered this question:

a) It should spend more

Candidates that selected this response:

b) Current support is sufficient

Candidates that selected this response:

c) It should spend less

Candidates that selected this response:

d) I don't have a position on this issue

Candidates that selected this response:

Voter responses

Based on more than 16,000 responses received as of Oct. 14, here's how voters answered this question:

Overall

By ward

Note: Taproot excluded surveys with fewer than two answers from these results. It was possible for voters to fill out the survey multiple times, but unlikely at a large scale given the structure of the survey. Voters were not able to select "I don't have a position on this issue".

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