Commission finalizes compact inclusion survey, plans QR-code deployment at March community expo

Commissioners agreed on a short, mostly multiple‑choice survey to gather accessibility priorities and outreach preferences, and they directed staff to deploy it with a QR code at the Community Expo scheduled for March 15.

Members consolidated overlapping draft items into roughly four core questions: a checkbox question about priorities (lighting, sound, mobility and similar items), a question about how respondents hear about city events (social media, city website, signs, email), an intent question about attending events advertised as accessible with a follow-up list of event types, and an optional short‑answer prompt asking whether the respondent has experienced an accessibility barrier in Stow. The commission decided checkboxes for core items would speed response at an expo and that the short answer should be optional and appear only when respondents indicate they had experienced a barrier.

Parks & Recreation staff agreed to create the QR code and host the form, and commissioners discussed whether responses should be anonymous or tied to an email address to prevent duplicate responses. Staff said they would check form settings (including timestamps and single‑response limits) and return with a recommended configuration. The commission also planned to publicize the survey on city social channels during March and to collect expo responses for about two weeks of data before narrowing next steps.