Do you live in the City or the county? |
City of St. Louis:
56%
St. Louis county:
36%
Somewhere else:
8%
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Do you believe that the City and the county should explore consolidating boundaries, services, or governance? |
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Which of the following sort of consolidation would you be most likely to support first? |
The City would enter the county as a municipality:
15%
The City and the county would combine some duplicated services, like public safety or parks maintenance:
19%
The City and the county would merge to become the 7th largest city in the country:
65%
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Which of the following is the best reason to combine the City and the county? |
Reduce cost in duplicated services:
28%
Increase efficiency of services:
20%
Eliminate parochial views of regional issues:
33%
Become the nation's 7th largest city overnight and garner national attention:
18%
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Which of the following is the first thing you would want the 7th largest city in the country to do? |
Build a new airport:
12%
Host a Summer Olympics:
17%
Synchronize the traffic lights from the Arch to Chesterfield:
22%
Annex Jefferson County:
7%
Take aim at becoming the 6th largest city in the country:
43%
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If the City and the county merged, which of the following would be the best name for the combined entity? |
St. Louis:
80%
St. Louis County City:
0%
St. Louis City County:
1%
Greater St. Louis:
19%
East St. Charles:
1%
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Which of the following services currently provided by a variety of municipalities would you like to see merged first? |
A regional fire department:
12%
A regional police department:
50%
A regional parks department:
9%
A regional trash department:
4%
A regional streets department:
15%
A regional library system:
10%
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How often do you speak to an elected official who represents you? |
Every day:
3%
Every week:
8%
Once a month or so:
26%
Once a year or so:
27%
Hardly ever or never:
36%
I am a local elected official and I talk to myself all the time:
1%
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How would you rate the job that your own municipal officials are doing? |
They do a better job than most others:
39%
They do a worse job than most others:
9%
They do about the same job as most others:
53%
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Would it make sense to you to require municipalities under a certain size to merge with other cities in the county? |
Yes, require cities under 1,000 residents to merge with another:
18%
Yes, require cities under 5,000 residents to merge with another:
23%
Yes, require cities under 10,000 residents to merge with another:
37%
No:
22%
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Which of the following do you think is the most likely reason there are 91 different municipalities in St. Louis County? |
Money:
15%
Power:
52%
Pride:
20%
Inertia:
12%
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Which of the following do you think is the strongest reason for combining some or all services of the 91 municipalities in the county? |
Eliminate cost in duplicated services:
40%
Increase efficiency of services:
35%
Eliminate parochial views of regional issues:
25%
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If the City and the county were combined, who should be the regional mayor/executive? |
Mayor Francis Slay, or his successor:
57%
County executive Charlie Dooley, or his successor:
17%
They should share the job equally, with Mayor Nelly breaking ties:
26%
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Which of the following songs would be the most apt theme of a unified City and county? |
It's The End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine), R.E.M.:
17%
Love Will Keep Us Together, Captain and Tennille:
19%
Since U Been Gone, Kelly Clarkson:
3%
With Or Without You, U2:
16%
The Way We Were, Barbra Streisand:
8%
Downtown, Petula Clark:
37%
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