Please read the following background information before beginning the survey:

The City of Bend is developing and implementing a Transportation Fee, a recurring fee collected from residents and businesses that would appear on monthly utility bills. We are seeking business community feedback to help inform discussions that are underway with a Council advisory board, the Bend Economic Development Advisory Board (BEDAB), around how this fee will be assessed on utility customers located in a commercial or industrial space. Home-based businesses would be assessed under the residential fee structure; if your business is based out of a residence you do not need to participate in this survey.
 
The Transportation Fee will:
  • Protect investments made in Bend’s transportation system with cost-effective preventative maintenance
  • Support more frequent year-round maintenance on priority streets, bike lanes, roundabouts, bridges and key routes
  • Fund equipment for multi-modal maintenance
  • Pay for an expanded path maintenance and sidewalk infill program
  • Sustain expanded operations and engineering staff to support these programs into the future.
This fee is necessary in response to rising costs, reductions in traditional sources of transportation maintenance funding, and maintaining the quality of the City’s growing transportation network.

If you’d like to provide more in-depth feedback to BEDAB, please send any written comments to BEDAB@bendoregon.gov or attend the BEDAB meeting on Monday, December 4, at noon in Council Chambers at Bend City Hall in person or remotely, via the information linked here, to provide public comment.

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