Gympie Mayor - Local Government Survey

We have closed our Local Governemnt Survey and have collated the results which include 68 surveys completed online and 79 surveys completed and mailed in by residents.
  Survey: Local Government Survey  
Below is a summarised view of your survey results
Total Number of Survey Participants: 147
 
1. In the next Council elections, would you vote for Councillors who advocate a return to Divisional Representation?
 
Yes
 
85.03%
125
No
 
13.61%
20
 
2. Would you vote for a Mayor or Councillors who had voted to remove your access to your local Divisional Councillor?
 
No
 
89.11%
131
Yes
 
10.89%
16
 
3. Should your Council consult, throughout its four year term, with the residents using surveys, referenda and plebiscites, also known as "Community Decision Making"?
 
Yes
 
94.55%
139
No
 
5.45%
8
 
4. Would you rather that the Mayor and Councillors presume they have a full mandate to govern, and state they have been elected to do that job, instead of involving the residents directly?
 
No
 
94.55%
139
Yes
 
4.76%
7
 
5. Would you vote for a Mayor and Councillors who believe that it is their duty to present your issues and problems at the Council table?
 
Yes
 
98.64%
145
No
 
1.36%
2
 
6. Should the Mayor and Councillors fix the roads before spending on recreation?
 
Yes
 
97.28%
143
No
 
2.72%
4
 
7. Should the Mayor and Councillors ‘Damm’ the Mary Valley, and in so doing take the offered ‘blood money’ trade for the dam in exchange for a State funded new Council Administration Centre and other Council infrastructure benefits?
 
No
 
93.88%
138
Yes
 
5.44%
8
 
8. Should your Local Council have ‘Secret Meetings’, and keep preventing access to properly recorded Council Minutes?
 
No
 
96.60%
142
Yes
 
2.04%
3
 
9. Should the Mayor be paid full time by Council and also claim payment for the same time period from the State Health Department for attending the Health Committee?
 
No
 
96.60%
142
Yes
 
2.04%
3
 
10. Would you vote for a Mayor and a group of Councillors that were associated with a Political Party?
 
No
 
95.24%
140
Yes
 
2.72%
4
 
11. Should a Council Head of a Department alter an official report of the Council’s Vehicle Fleet Manager, essentially when the original recommends council cars be retained for four years, the altered report says one year?
 
No
 
95.24%
140
Yes
 
4.08%
6
 
12. Would you vote for a Mayor who has had 3 brand new cars within 3 years?
 
No
 
96.60%
142
Yes
 
2.72%
4
 
13. Would you vote for a Mayor who instructs Council’s Land Protection staff not to prosecute an offending landholder but instead give council property, in the form of drums of weed killer chemicals, to one upper Kandanga landholder?
 
No
 
96.60%
142
Yes
 
2.72%
4
 
14. Would you vote for a Mayor and Councillors who, when reported for being in Breach of a Local Law (same as parking ticket), move a motion and vote to absolve themselves from the breach of that law?
 
No
 
97.29%
143
Yes
 
2.04%
3
 
Note: Some survey participants did not answer all questions. Therefore results do not add up to 147 and percentages do not add up to 100% for some questions.