BUTLER TWP — The Butler School District will spend up to $10,000 for a research company to do a survey as part of the consolidation review.

The board Tuesday night hired Campos Inc., a Pittsburgh-based market research firm, for $6,500 plus $200 per hour of work.

The After-Action Review Committee has been discussing how it can use a survey to study the impact of the district’s consolidation in May 2015. That consolidation closed five elementary schools of the district’s 11, with one reopening as an alternative education and emotional support school.

While there is no date yet known when the survey will be released, the survey will be open for district staff and parents with some questions available for residents who do not have children in the district.

The survey will likely be online, but the committee plans to discuss other options with Campos for those individuals without access to the Internet, according to committee Chairman Jennifer Cummings.

Board member Al Vavro hopes the district does not hear only from those who have negative comments about the consolidation and that there is an accurate representation of how people feel across the board.

The specifics regarding survey questions will be discussed at the committee’s Jan. 26 meeting at 4:30 p.m. at the Harriger Educational Services Center, 110 Campus Lane.