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Committee approves community survey after minor edits; staff to distribute
Summary
A Calvert County committee approved a revised community survey on May 21 after members requested a small technical change and asked staff to avoid overlapping county school surveys when distributing it.
A Calvert County committee voted May 21 to approve a community survey, directing staff to implement amendments discussed at the meeting and proceed with distribution.
The committee chair opened the meeting and said the group had been working for months on development of the community survey and asked members for any final edits. Emily Shreeves, staff liaison, told the committee that most required answers were single-choice scales or yes/no questions with optional fields for longer responses, producing quantitative results with optional qualitative input. She also said the draft aimed for readability.
Committee members asked technical and timing questions. One member requested that two demographic questions be changed from single-selection drop-downs to multi-select fields to allow respondents who are parents, teachers, administrators or who have children in multiple schools to select all applicable roles. Shreeves confirmed the current draft would be changed to allow multi-select on those questions. Another member asked that the committee avoid distributing the survey too close to the Calvert County Public Schools’ own end-of-year parent survey to prevent respondent fatigue; the committee agreed to account for that timeline when scheduling distribution.
After the edits were noted, a committee member moved to approve the survey with the amendments discussed and asked staff to send it to the community; another member seconded. The motion passed on a voice vote. The chair said staff would follow through with the recommended changes and proceed with distribution.
The committee also approved the meeting agenda at the start of the session by voice vote.
Staff and committee members said the survey was intended to be the committee’s primary mechanism for public input because prior afternoon and evening meetings had yielded limited attendance. The committee directed staff to finalize the minor technical edits and to schedule distribution with awareness of the school system’s survey timing.
