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Council backs citywide survey plan; asks staff to add translations in consent resolution

Goldsboro City Council · August 19, 2025
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Summary

City staff presented a proposal from ETC Institute to conduct a statistically valid resident survey (goal: 400 completed responses; ±4.87% margin of error). Council asked staff to return a consent-resolution with English, Spanish and French/Creole translation options within the budgeted amount.

Goldsboro's council heard a detailed plan on Aug. 18 for a citywide citizen survey to inform strategic planning and performance measurement. ETC Institute proposed a mailed/online/phone survey targeting 400 completed responses (about a 10% response from 4,000 mailings) to achieve an estimated margin of error of ±4.87% at the 95% confidence level, with at least 65 completed responses per council district to…

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