Common Council has started setting the city’s priorities with the level of public satisfaction at 75 per cent for city programmes and services, up 5 per cent in one year.
On the other hand, the satisfaction rate for City Transit, after a series of cuts, has fallen in just one year from 78 per cent down to 56 per cent.
Mayor Mel Norton says whether funding for City Transit is restored depends on how well Common Council deals with the pension issue after hearing from the task force on the shared risk model.
Norton also says he doesn’t want a huge list of priorities with no more than 5 with rebranding Saint John as a city open for business to be on that list.
The Ipsos Reid survey also finds Saint John is an aging city with 57 per cent of the adult population 45 years of age or older with 1 in five over 65.
