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Next, respondcnts were askcd: <br />i3�hut ciry servlCE'S, facllities, or��j'ograms. if ur1v, c!n <br />you. feel should he cut? <br />Again, seventy-seven percent were unable to suggest any cuts in city services, facilities, or <br />programs: <br />NO ANSWER . . . . . . . . . . . 39% <br />NONE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48% <br />........ ... <br />POOL .... ... . ... ...... 10% <br />..... ..... <br />RECYGLING . . . . . . . _ . . . . , . . . . . . . . 2% <br />SCATTERED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 % <br />Ten percent, though, felt the "swimming pool" should be privatized. <br />"None" was reportecf by households containing children, forty-five to sixty-four year olds, <br />college graduates, over $50,000.00 annual income househole3s, women and Precincts One. �I�wo <br />and Three residents. "Pool" was mentione:i by owners of homes valued at over $150,000.00, <br />men and residents who feel the quality of life is good or only fair. <br />Trade-Off between Quality <br />and Cos# <br />Respondents were queried: <br />In making the trude-off between the quality and breAdth <br />ofpuhlic services and their tax costs, should the PRI- <br />MfIRY emphasis be placed on providing excellent ser- <br />vices or minrmizing taxes costs? If it were possible to <br />only do one or the oiher, which shauld it be? <br />Forty-seven percent would place the emphasis on "providing excellent services," whiie thirty-sia <br />percent would exnphasize "minimizing tax costs:" <br />EXCELLENT SERVICES/STRONGLY . . • • • . . . . • . . . . • . 18% <br />EXCELLI?NT SERVICES . . . . _ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29% <br />MINIMIZE TAXES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27% <br />R4INI TAXES/STRONGLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9% <br />DON'T i�NOW/REFUS�D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18% <br />By two-to-one, intense "excellence" proponents outnumbered intense "tax minimizers." <br />"Excellent services" was mentioned most often by households containing children, eighteen to <br />forty-four year olds and renters. "Minimize taxes" was important to city residents for over <br />twenty years, owners of homes valued at under $10d,000.00 and Precincts �ne, Two and "l luee <br />46 <br />