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1. The City of Jacksonville currently has $150 million in unspent road construction cash and the City wants to borrow money with interest costs to build roads. (Per CBS WJXT, Channel 4 Story by Jim Piggott).

Is this good management?
No
Yes

2. The City has been holding up spending $750 million in already voter approved road bonding money from the existing 1 / 2 cent sales tax.

This money could have been spent years ago without the new plan.

With existing traffic congestion, is this bad or good management by the JTA and City?

3. $20 to 100 million in bond money fees will be taken from the taxpayers over the plan life.

This money will not be used to build capital improvements.

The plan has over $700 million in interest cost that will be taken from the taxpayers and will not be used to build capital improvements. (City Attorney Rick Mallaney, speach to Greater Arlington Civic Association).

If the plan can be changed to "pay as you go," would you vote down this exiting plan and support a better written plan?

4. This plan puts lots of money in southwestern Duval County new subdivisions that want the rest of Jacksonville to pay for their roads.

There are specific clogged intersections on existing roads in Jacksonville such as Atlantic Blvd at the Southside connector and Blanding at I295.

Almost no money from this plan will be used to build full cloverleafs with multiple lane access roads on clogged interchanges.

Would you support rewriting the plan to shift money from downtown buildings to unclogging existing traffic bottlenecks?

5. The People Mover or Automated Skyway Express runs at 10 MPH over a 2 and 1 / 2 mile track.

The cost for one round trip is $200 or about $100 per mile.

Other cities have rapid transit that runs 45 to 55 MPH at much less than $200 per round trip.
Would you prefer to ride to work at 50 MPH at a cost of $2 on high speed rapid transit.....or.... ride to work at 10 MPH at a cost of $200 per trip on the People Mover ?

6. Should money be spent on roads, drainage and real rapid transit and specifically have no People Mover Money?

7. In other cities, sports facilities pay back the cities for the cost of building and rennovation. Should at least 50% of the cost of a new arena and upgrading of the baseball facility be paid for with ticket and concessions revenues?

8. Aquafer well pressures have been dropping signficantly over 10 years.

People have been fined for watering their grass.

Do you support cleaning up of the river so that river water can be used to water the grass?

9. Duval County has more boats per person than any other county in Florida.

Florida Marine Patrol Officers have stated on talk radio that many areas are so filled in with silt that boats cannot go in.

Other communities like Port St. Lucie, Florida have combined local money with Federal money to do dredging and river clean up.... In our case dredging would help local fisheries, tourism and downtown facilities to bring cruise ship money to our community.

The plan has no seed money to help get state and federal funding for environmentally safe dredging and river clean up.

Should the plan include dredging and river clean up seed money?

10. The Better Jacksonville Plan Sept. 5 voter Referendum does not have a way for citizens to say which projects should be done first.

Projects like the Library were dropped from the last big tax increase plan which we are still paying for.

Should we vote this plan down and write a plan which breaks the approval process into several votes for citizens to set schedules, priorities and know better what items will really cost?

11. Companies like Authur Andersen Consulting have done detailed planning for Jacksonville and for the big money projects of the world.

No such independently produced detailed engineering and cost study has been made available to citizens.

Do you believe that detailed scope and engineering should be done before asking voters to approve the entire $2.5 billion?

12. Tax money give aways to corporations in Jacksonville sometimes cost more than any new taxes paid by the corporation.

Do you approve of corporate welfare that does not generate a good return to the city?

13. Have you read the actual legal wording of the Better Jacksonville Plan, especially the projects descriptions?

Note the following Internet address (but switching pages will dump your poll information inputted so far).
http://www.oocities.org/ctdcinc/-572-E.html

14. The ballot summary leaves out important information.

Plan opponents comments are linked from
http://go.to/CTDCInc
http://www.concernedtaxpayers.org

The Mayor's comments on the plan are at http://www.coj.net

Also, you can get a paper copy of the 2000-572 plan and all attachments from your City Council member.

Before you vote, do you expect to read these three groups of documents?

15. If a vote were held today, would you vote against or for the Better Jacksonville Plan?

16. What percentage of the $2.5 billion BJP should be for projects that unclog intersections and roads?

17. What percentage of the $2.5 billion BJP should be for projects for drainage and that clean up the river and toxic waste sites?
%

18. What percentage of the BJP money should be use for active parks and playgrounds?

19. Should the city move county court civil cases to the unused Federal Courthouse (and use other existing buildings for court offices, renovate existing courthouse for criminal cases) or build a new courthouse for $190 million?

20. Should the city strenghten the downtown library for a third floor as was previously planned, improve the existing downtown library and put the balance of library money in branch libraries...or...build a new downtown library for over $95 million per the Sept. 5 Better Jax. Plan?

21. Should more than 40% of plan taxes help only about 40 of Duval citizens and out of town bond lawyers?

22. Certain projects, not in the Plan or minimized by the Plan, could allow 90% of taxes to help 90% of taxpayers.

eg. Early intervention crime prevention like Boys-Girls Clubs combined with senior facilities & community centers, new interchanges on existing highways, buses to unclog highways, better drainage and clean up of the river for water to reduce yard watering costs.

Should we vote down plan and write a new plan where at least 90% of taxes help 90% of taxpayers?

23. Land is being purchased for preservation and to minimize urban sprawl like Atlanta Georgia.

Should the city buy swampland / marshland at $18,000 per acre for preservation or buy at closer to market value or buy none at all?

24. Name your top 5 priorities for the use of tax money in Jacksonville. (There is also space below for additional tax money priority use).

Enter the % of plan money for each priority in box on right.

Each 1% is equal to (or greater than) $25 million over the 17 to 30 year plan.

The below "pop out" menu has "priority items" received so far from voters,......MOST of these items are not in the current Better Jax. Plan to be voted on Sept. 5. (in any significant way except already approved road money).

If you want to print this list, go to this site, but you will loose your data entered so far:
Poll Priority Items received so far: http://www.oocities.org/fltaxpayer/list.html"