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Council adds retreat discussion, orders downtown parking survey with QR flyers; allows anonymous or self‑identified responses
Summary
Council added its January retreat discussion to the evening agenda and voted to run a public survey on downtown parking. Members agreed to a single online survey, to distribute paper flyers with a QR code to downtown businesses (council members will hand‑deliver), and to allow respondents to either identify themselves or submit anonymously; staff
Goldsboro — The City Council Dec. 16 amended its evening agenda to add the 2025 council retreat discussion and took steps to gather public input on downtown parking before the January retreat.
Council directed staff to publish an online survey on the city website and to distribute printed flyers (including a QR code or quick link) to downtown businesses. Council members Mayor Pro Tem Jones and Councilwoman Taylor volunteered to hand‑deliver flyers to merchants so every downtown stakeholder receives the notice. The council debated whether respondents should be required to provide identifying information; the final motion requires the survey to allow either anonymous responses or self‑identification so stakeholders who wish to be known may provide contact details while members of the public may respond without attribution.
Council members asked staff to finalize questions rapidly and to provide the full set of raw survey responses (exportable dataset) to the council before the January retreat so members can review the underlying data in advance. Staff said they will work with council members to finalize questions and will post the survey promptly.
Why this matters: Downtown parking is a recurring operational and policy issue that affects businesses, property owners and residents. Council sought to collect broader stakeholder input in advance of its January retreat and to ensure merchants are personally informed of the survey.
Quotes "If you just wanna take the previous one, because the questions were not wrong...Let's finalize the questions and get that out," Mayor Gaylor said, urging a quick process to ensure usable data before the retreat.
"Taylor and I will be handing out those flyers," Councilwoman Taylor said, volunteering to deliver paper notices to downtown businesses.
Ending Staff will post the survey on the city website, prepare a QR‑coded flyer for distribution to downtown businesses, and send the exported survey results to council members before the January retreat for review and inclusion in retreat discussions.
