Preliminary Survey Results-April 14th

Our thanks to the 179 responders to the Hastings Alliance for Affordable Taxes survey. Many of them took the time to add comments, which we are tallying and analyzing and will present to you shortly. Since we’re still collecting survey responses, we won’t release all results until everyone has had a chance to be heard. In the interim, here are the five most salient points thus far:
* 83.4% support collaboration among the quad village school districts to reduce costs and improve programs
* 90% say property taxes are either “a little high” or “excessively high”
* 66.1% do not support salary increases for school employees, 9.9% support them, 14% are not sure
* 68% said tax rates negatively affect the character or Hastings, 20.7% are not sure, 5.9% were positive, 5.3% said taxes had no effect
* 91.2% plan to vote on this year’s school budget
posted by Marlene Piturro