What are the most important issues the city of Cortez should address in its 2012 budget?

Chris Navage
Southwest Colorado Community College
student
“Encouraging development that will lead to more revenue for the city. The roads are in good shape, the parks are good and the rec center is better than Durango.”

Ray Cassity
retired
“I think people with common sense should replace all of them — and you can take that all the way to Washington, D.C. People should look at North Harrison off of Empire. No one in this town knows how to use that thing (roundabout). We don’t need one at Mildred. People here can’t drive and chew gum at the same time.”

Nick Vaughn
student
“Repair a little bit at the skate park.”

Mark McLaughlin
self employed
“I love what they did with the sidewalks along Montezuma Avenue, so more improvements to make the town more bike friendly.”

Ryan Baker
McDonald’s employee
“Clean up and fix the streets. There’s a lot of potholes and cracks in the streets.”

Chris Barnhouse
Southwest Colorado Community College
student
“Business development. We need more businesses coming into the downtown area to fill up those empty store fronts.”