La Mirada officials who think a tax increase will provide needed revenue for street and other improvements received some good news from a poll by Godbe Research of Newport Beach.
Here are some of the key details of the poll.

The company interviewed 502 likely November 2012 voters from Oct. 20-25. Each interview took about 18 minutes. There is a 4.3 percent margin of error.

The poll on support for a one-half percent sales tax showed:
Definitely yes: 30 percent
Probably yes: 33 percent
Definitely no: 20 percent
Probably no: 15 percent
Don’t know: 2 percent

The poll on support for a one-quarter percent sales tax showed:
Definitely yes: 42 percent
Probably yes: 24 percent
Definitely no: 19 percent
Probably no: 11 percent
Don’t know: 4 percent

The poll on support for a utility users showed:
Definitely yes: 19 percent
Probably yes: 31 percent
Definitely no: 33 percent
Probably no: 11 percent
Don’t know: 4 percent

The poll on support for increasing the existing business license tax by $50 for most small businesses and $1,000 for most large businesses showed:
Definitely yes: 21 percent
Probably yes: 26 percent
Definitely no: 31 percent
Probably no: 13 percent
Don’t know: 9 percent

The poll identified important issues on a scale of three with 0 being not at all important, one, somewhat important, two, very important and three, extremely important.
Here are the ratings:
Maintaining police services, 2.4
Protecting local property values, 2.3
Maintaining city streets, 2.2
Maintaining sewers and storm drains, 2.1
Preventing local tax increases, 2
Maintaining sidewalks/curbs/gutters/trees, 2
Maintaining city parks/recreational services/facilities, 2
Maintaining cultural/performing arts programs, 1.5

The poll also looked at attitudes on economic outlook:
About the same: 55 percent
Better: 22 percent
Worse: 20 percent
Don’t know: 4 percent
Source: Godbe Research