PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Portlanders in Districts 2 and 3 are at odds with those living in Districts 1 and 4 when it comes to potential priorities for the city’s upcoming budget cuts, including spending cuts to police, housing and homeless services, and parks and recreation, but generally found consensus when it came to potential cuts for fire services, according to survey results commissioned by Portland’s City Council.

The DHM Research poll results, which surveyed 600 Portland residents in mid-April, asked respondents how they would prioritize cuts from the city’s General Fund, which predominately funds police, fire, smaller public safety programs, parks and recreation and homeless services, as the

city faces a $93 million budget shortfall. The survey’s release came hours before Portland City Administrator Michael Jordan announced a 20% reduction in core services across the city.

District 1 covers the majority of East Portland, while District 2 covers North and Northeast Portland. District 3 covers most of Southeast Portland; meanwhile, District 4 represents residents living in Northwest Portland, South and Southwest Portland.

Spending cuts to the Portland Police Bureau had the most approval in the survey, with 42% of those surveyed approving the cuts to 55% disapproving; however, the survey found there was higher approval for spending cuts within the police bureau in Districts 2 and 3, with 46% and 51% respectively, compared to those living in Districts 1 and 4, which only approved 32% and 38% of potential cuts.

Meanwhile, proposed cuts to housing and homeless services in the City of Portland had the second-highest approval in the survey, although it was along the lines of 38% approving and 60% disapproving. The breakdown in support became more apparent along district lines, with residents in Districts 1 and 4 more likely to approve cuts to housing and homelessness services at 42% and 49% respectively compared to those in Districts 2 and 3, which only approved 32% and 31% respectively.

Proposed cuts for the city’s parks and recreation bureau also saw differences by district, while in total 28% of Portlanders approve of parks and recreation cuts to 71% disapproving, according to the survey results.

“More residents in Districts 1 and 4 approve of cuts to parks and recreation (33% and 34%) than residents of Districts 2 and 3 (22% and 22%),” according to the survey results.

The one potential cut the majority of Portlanders surveyed disapproved of? Fire services. According to the poll, only 17% were okay with cuts to fire services, and the disapproval was consistent across the city’s districts.

“This City Council is committed to better engaging Portlanders in our work. When we do, people are willing to stand with us and make hard choices,” City Council President Elana Pirtle-Guiney said in a statement about the poll’s results. “We had a ‘don’t know’ option on many questions and Portlanders could have said, all these choices are terrible, I can’t choose. But most people, on most issues, were willing to make the tough call.”

“All of us politicians, bless our hearts, like to think we know where the public stands on the issues we’re working on,” City Councilor Steve Novick said in a statement. “But when it came to the tough choices we have to make in this budget – on many of which we are torn ourselves – President Pirtle-Guiney and I realized we should not presume we know where Portlanders stand. So we thought we’d just ask them. Now, as we move into budget crunch time, we’ll have the benefit of knowing what a representative sample of Portlanders thinks about some of the trade-offs.”