Bend Polls - SquareOffs

Should Bend's mayor and city councilors get a pay increase?

Asked by KTVZ

717 Votes

Should Bend's mayor and city councilors get a pay increase?

18%

Yes Yes

82%

No No

18%

Yes

1 Comments

Lee Edlund

$19k a year. Yes is a no brainer.

82%

No

10 Comments

💛🖤 RAG 💛🖤

Only professionals with experience should get paid. All on the current council are basically activists with their own personal agenda, none of them has experience and it shows at what they're spending our tax $$ on! If it's to much work they volunteered for then get more council members to join

sandra zollman

No. They make decisions based on their personal agendas without a vote of the people. There's to much spending and property tax increases already without boosting their salaries. They passed an unnecessary environmental impact home inspection without the vote of citizens.

Wrong, they vote for what the majority of Bend citizens want. You just aren't the majority.

sandra zollman

Three garbage price increases in under two years, want a 10-15.00 water/sewer increase and a raise for themselves. Absolutely not.

sandra zollman

It would appear that CB is actually a city councilor.

sandra zollman

No. I don't want my taxes going up anymore to pay for it and they make decisions based on their personal agendas without a vote of the people. The ridiculous environmental impact home inspection is a prime example. They are supposed to serve not reign. Totalitarian attitude.

LESLIE Wayt

I'm not happy with our government and like any other job, you need to EARN pay increases!!

Ben Hargis

Pay increase for what? They all should be fired

daniel tovar

nope, do not pad their pockets, put it towards resolving the houseless issue in Bend.

Amanda

Isn't it pretty part-time work? I think they only have a few meetings per month.

They work a lot outside of those two meetings.

Gerald Smith

City Council and Mayor should not be careers.

Gerald Smith

City Council and Mayor should not be careers.

Gabe West

Not for doing a lousy job

Why don't you run, Gabe? If Oregon is too liberal for you, I'm sure Arkansas or some other red state would welcome you with open arms.

After the Hunnell clearing have you noticed new encampments in Bend?

Asked by KTVZ

660 Votes

After the Hunnell clearing have you noticed new encampments in Bend?

87%

yes yes

13%

no no

87%

yes

9 Comments

Kim Varner

The apartments I live in have even had some people camp on the grass right outside our doors. Interesting that there wasn’t a designated area for them to move into before kicking them all out into the whole community. Now instead of them feeling safe they are constantly moving around.

Kim Varner

Peggy Ptolemy Roth

When I started seeing all these encampments pop up along hwy 97. Is this what Bend wants?? I am disgusted how much we have to pay for a clean up that should have diverted in the first place. Not to mention the drug lord among those on Hunnell. It Infuriates me to see where my tax dollars go.

Dave Leverick

Well now there headed for China Hat the county needs to block it off Keep them out These people are not wanted they don't pay taxes but want everything for free Rough is enough

Gabe West

Prageru has several videos about homelessness that everything should watch

Mark Mueller

Duh! Where do you think they would go? I still say buying them a bus ticket to Portland (where they're welcome) is a lot cheaper than continuing to have to clean up their mess at the taxpayers expense.

💛🖤 RAG 💛🖤

Yes and they should be cleaned up too!!

Brandon Townsend

they need a place to go ? how about to work...o wait drugs and social security card.. and ID...they need them for I9s...ship them all to alcatraz...that would solve that problem

Brandon Townsend

they need a place to go ? how about to work...o wait drugs and social security card.. and ID...they need them for I9s...ship them all to alcatraz...that would solve that problem