The Town of Chapel Hill is asking residents to take a survey on how they received information related to Hurricane Florence as the storm dropped significant amounts of rain on North Carolina earlier this month.

The five-question survey asks how residents received information, how satisfied they were with the amount of information and in what language residents received the information, with options for English, Spanish, Burmese and Karen. A slot is also available for additional comments on the town’s communication response to the storm.

The town operated a call center for non-emergency questions during the storm and offered translators in each of those languages to speak with residents.

One option for how residents received information is through their “Good Neighbor Liaisons,” which the town is hoping to recruit additional volunteers to serve in these roles.

Town officials said in a release that the liaisons are part of a pilot project aimed at disseminating information from the town to different community members as part of neighborhood communications that are already in place.

You can read more about the Good Neighbor Liaisons here and take the informational survey here.

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