{"id":866,"date":"2011-08-02T08:02:53","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T15:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.justasonmi.com\/?p=866"},"modified":"2022-11-17T01:54:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T01:54:05","slug":"866","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.justasonmi.com\/?p=866","title":{"rendered":"Municipal government performance scores weakening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.justasonmi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/blog-vancouver-city-hall.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-54\" title=\"vancouver city hall\" src=\"http:\/\/www.justasonmi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/blog-vancouver-city-hall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a>Vancouver, BC (Aug 2, 2011) \u2013 A recent survey by Justason Market Intelligence (JMI) finds that approval of the performance of Vancouver&#8217;s municipal government is showing signs of weakening. While overall approval remains relatively consistent since May, <strong>strong<\/strong> approval on every attribute examined has fallen.<\/p>\n<p><a><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-867\" title=\"Strong approval of municipal govt\" src=\"http:\/\/www.justasonmi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Strong-approval-of-municipal-govt.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite an overall softening of approval numbers, the pollsters note that overall approval continues to be strong for <strong>taking care of basics like garbage collection and street cleaning<\/strong> (80% approve). <strong>Making Vancouver more environmentally conscious<\/strong> follows very closely with approval from 73%. In the range of 50% approve of the government&#8217;s performance on issues like <strong>considering the needs of all residents, consulting with the public on neighbourhood issues<\/strong>,<strong>\u00a0 improving the Downtown East Side<\/strong> and <strong>reducing street homelessness. <\/strong>The municipal government continues to receive its lowest approval ratings for <strong>consulting with the local business community<\/strong> (40%).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.justasonmi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Approval-of-municipal-govt.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-868\" title=\"Approval of municipal govt\" src=\"http:\/\/www.justasonmi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Approval-of-municipal-govt.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a><img title=\"approval, july 2011-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.justasonmi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/approval-july-2011-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The\u00a0<strong><em>Vancouver Civic Outlook<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is a regular series sponsored by Justason Market Intelligence surveying City of Vancouver residents.<\/p>\n<p>Research Notes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dates of research:\u00a0July 11-15, 2011<\/li>\n<li>Methodology:\u00a0A telephone-online hybrid combining 376 telephone and 115 online panel surveys<\/li>\n<li>Margin of error:\u00a0\u00b15.1 percentage points 19 in 20 times<\/li>\n<li>Research Sponsor:\u00a0Justason Market Intelligence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information please contact:<\/p>\n<address>Barb Justason, Principal<br \/>\nJustason Market Intelligence<br \/>\n1156 Hornby Street Vancouver, BC V6Z1V8<br \/>\nDirect: +1 604 783 4165 \u00a0| \u00a0+1 646 875 4949<br \/>\nEmail: barb@justasonmi.com<br \/>\nwww.justasonmi.com<\/address>\n<address>twitter: barbjustason<\/address>\n<p align=\"left\">Photo Credit:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tris<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouver, BC (Aug 2, 2011) \u2013 A recent survey by Justason Market Intelligence (JMI) finds that approval of the performance of Vancouver&#8217;s municipal government is showing signs of weakening. While overall approval remains relatively consistent since May, strong approval on every attribute examined has fallen. Despite an overall softening of approval numbers, the pollsters note [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,20,22,23,39,25,8,27,1,9],"tags":[52,24,28,30,31,32,33,34,35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.justasonmi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.justasonmi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.justasonmi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.justasonmi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.justasonmi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.justasonmi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6382,"href":"http:\/\/www.justasonmi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions\/6382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.justasonmi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.justasonmi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.justasonmi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}