While Mayor Ashton Hayward is touting his success in rebuilding the city’s infrastructure, the latest Inweekly-Political Matrix poll shows that citizens are more dissatisfied with city streets, sidewalks and stormwater infrastructure than a year ago.
In 2016, Mayor Hayward hired the UWF Haas Center to conduct a community survey. The survey had 444 respondents. Over the past two weeks, Political Matrix conducted a similar survey of the city’s most likely voters using the same questions. The answers-500 respondents-were properly weighted to match the demographics of the city.
City Streets | City 2016 | IN 2017 | Variance |
Very dissatisfied | 4.73 | 12.6 | 7.87 |
Dissatisfied | 18.69 | 20.2 | 1.51 |
Neutral | 27.48 | 25.4 | -2.08 |
Satisfied | 40.99 | 32 | -8.99 |
Very satistfied | 7.88 | 8 | 0.12 |
No opinion | 0.68 | 1.8 | 1.12 |
City Sidewalks | City 2016 | IN 2017 | Variance |
Very dissatisfied | 5.41 | 13.6 | 8.19 |
Dissatisfied | 13.51 | 21.2 | 7.69 |
Neutral | 29.73 | 29.4 | -0.33 |
Satisfied | 42.34 | 26.4 | -15.94 |
Very satistfied | 7.88 | 6 | -1.88 |
No opinion | 0.23 | 3.4 | 3.17 |
Stormwater | City 2016 | IN 2017 | Variance |
Very dissatisfied | 8.13 | 21 | 12.87 |
Dissatisfied | 21.67 | 23.6 | 1.93 |
Neutral | 28.44 | 28.8 | 0.36 |
Satisfied | 31.6 | 19.4 | -12.2 |
Very satistfied | 6.32 | 2.6 | -3.72 |
No opinion | 3.84 | 4.6 | 0.76 |