Birmingham contemplates survey of residents

By Grace Lovins

The city of Birmingham is set to consider a potential survey of residents to learn more about their wants for the community after city commissioners voted on Monday, June 9, to discuss the concept as an agenda item during a future meeting.

Commissioner Andrew Haig was the one to bring the idea to the commission, urging the city to look into conducting a survey that would provide the commission and city staff with an idea of what residents think and feel about their community. When asked to justify the effort, Haig simply stated, “Why would we not want to know what the residents here want?”

With the commission voting to bring the idea forth as a formal meeting agenda item, city staff will look into what it would require to conduct such a survey and bring a recommendation on whether city staff could feasibly handle the study internally or if an outside firm would need to be hired, said mayor Therese Longe.

More information about the survey will be discussed during the next regular commission meeting.