Agenda Item Name:
Title
Presentation on the 2020 Census
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Presenter:
Armon Lowery, US Census Outreach Specialist; Sean McLendon, Strategic Initiatives Manager
Description:
Update on the 2020 Census.
Recommended Action:
Recommended Action
Hear presentation and authorize the Chair to sign and send the Chair Letter.
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Prior Board Motions:
January 14, 2020 Consent Agenda the Board approved a $25,000 budget adjustment from general fund reserves to support census efforts.
Fiscal Consideration:
Fiscal Consideration
N/A
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Background:
The final push to April 1, 2020 - Census Day
Alachua County will ask all institutions and employers allow their students, faculty, staff, and employees 20 minutes at work to take the census. This can be done online, by phone or by paper on Census Day, April 1, 2020.
The attached Chair Letter requests the Friendship 7 partners, all municipalities within Alachua County, and other Non-Profit Sector entities allow their patrons, staff, students, clients, faculty and staff the opportunity to complete the census on Census Day.
Counting everyone once, only once, and in the right place.
The U.S. Census Bureau is the federal government's largest statistical agency. They are dedicated to providing current facts and figures about America's people, places, and economy. Federal law protects the confidentiality of all individual responses the Census
Bureau collects.
The U.S. Constitution requires that each decade all communities take part in a count-or a census-of America's population.
? The census provides vital information for citizens and about community.
? It determines how many representatives each state gets in Congress and is used to redraw district boundaries. Redistricting counts are sent to the states by March 31, 2021.
? Communities rely on census statistics to plan for a variety of resident needs including new roads, schools, and emergency services.
? Businesses use census data to determine where to ope...
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