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Have you noticed an increase in taxes this year?
KTVZ Asked by KTVZ
1/31/2024

Have you noticed an increase in taxes this year?

94%
Yes WINNER

12

6%
No

1

94%
Yes

8 Comments
Steven Huillet
4
Steven Huillet

Most of our taxes are going to Schools that are no longer required to make sure students are proficient in math, reading, writing and comprehension. Why are we paying so much and getting nothing in return.

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Robin Lewis
3
Robin Lewis

More and more levies and bonds. Stop voting for all these additional taxes and the tax bills won't raise by so much.

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Rick Allen
2
Rick Allen

Yes and it is outrages! It went up $664. 60 over last year, for a total of $8089.85 That is $664.00 per month, just for property tax. I think Police and fire dept. need more money, but it should come out of this outrages amount not more taxes. I vote no on any increase.

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sandra zollman
sandra zollman

We must stop voting for the tax and spend party of liberals over and over for city council and Mayor. No more parks, no more roundabouts. It's outrageous how property taxes are going up. We need more responsible people in office.

sandra zollman
sandra zollman

Absolutely agree.

Mark Mueller
1
Mark Mueller

Yes, almost a 10% increase. Education and education bonds comprise 50%! I hope the public thinks it's worth it.

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Jim Hipp
1
Jim Hipp

Wth? You have to ask this with a mandatory 3% per year largely going to parks and recs! What a joke. Where have you been, under a rock?

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Latterdaysaint
1
Latterdaysaint

Thanks Biden and Tina Kotak

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steven
steven

Did they vote for all of the levies in Deschutes County?

Bob Majka
1
Bob Majka

They've gone up for the past 15 years like clock work,

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sandra zollman
0
sandra zollman

City can't stop spending and taxing. It's out of hand.

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6%
No

1 Comment
Sussie Due
0
Sussie Due

Mine did not increase .

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Tylor Meyer
Tylor Meyer

Are you even on a payroll or pay taxes?

Have these high winds affected you or your home this week?
KTVZ Asked by KTVZ
179 Votes

Have these high winds affected you or your home this week?

YES

0

NO

0

YES

0 Comment
No one has commented yet

NO

0 Comment
No one has commented yet
    Do you agree with the May 1st deadline for homeless campers to move?
KTVZ Asked by KTVZ
1,338 Votes

    Do you agree with the May 1st deadline for homeless campers to move?

YES

12

NO

1

YES

12 Comments
Barb Hayden
3
Barb Hayden

Never should have been allowed in the first place! Bend needs to develop a site with bathrooms, showers and rules,like NO drugs and NO trash. At least Redmond is trying to help these people. Take a. Lesson from them. Get off the dime and solve the problem

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Cheri Trettin
1
Cheri Trettin

I say move the campers off forest land and onto main street if you want public funding for homelessness in Bend to become an immediate priority!!!

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Latterdaysaint
1
Latterdaysaint

Yes and build more homeless shelters or provide jobs for them

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Tylor Meyer
1
Tylor Meyer

They have had excessive amount of time to move off land they are not even allowed to live on!

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Just a voice Figg
1
Just a voice Figg

They have had ample time to move. Vegetation reduction helps slow and or stop wildfires that will eventually hit that area and destroy millions of dollars worth of homes and people's lives.

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Jeff Sanders
0
Jeff Sanders

Living in SE Bend I really enjoyed going to China Hat with my Jeep to off road and walk with my dogs. The thought of being shot has kept me from doing that for a while now. Good riddance to the homeless and make it where they can't come back.

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Joe Dillon
0
Joe Dillon

it is public land, NOT someones home! The public cannot use it without fear of saftey. We DONT need another human caused fire that happens EVERY year out there, we have enough to worry about with mother nature fires. Time to move on!

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Linda Knowlton
0
Linda Knowlton

Fire danger and trash in the forest

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jennifer stenkamp
0
jennifer stenkamp

Being homeless is usually the result of bad choices. My taxes help pay for government land. Living there rent free and creating tons of garbage, being a true threat to causing wildfires, behaving in a lawless manner angers too many of us who manage to pay for real housing. Move them out now.

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Erin E Yates
0
Erin E Yates

We all have problems in life why do they think it is ok to do what they are doing, when the rest of us pay our taxes, go to work, get counseling if we have problems. The amount they spend on drugs, they could pay rent. It’s a choice and their choice is to do drugs and not work. DEATH and TAXES!!!

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Goth Gaga
0
Goth Gaga

This homeless problem is a choice. These people are drug addicts that need to get clean and go back to work. They should be put into rehab while being counseled for their personal problems. Once clean they should be put to work doing tasks that prisoners do. If they refuse, then jail them.

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Ron Rommel
0
Ron Rommel

The Homeless Campers are the wrong people on the wrong landscape due to their lack of cognitive awareness of fire. I and many others are willing to share grace for their position in life when they are willing to improve their situation through counseling, accepting shelter to transition life.

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NO

1 Comment
Diana Cockerill
1
Diana Cockerill

They are humans and have no other options.We try not to let that happen to unwanted pets, yet have no problem in letting it happen to, what many consider, unwanted people!

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