Census response rate final push
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The county’s agenda for Board of County Commissioners, Sep 21, 2020
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Just kidding. Just a few things. Uh first one uh census response rate. We're in the final push for the census to get everyone counted that we can. Uh we know is we have a population growth, we've seen it. Um wanna continue to encourage everyone to fill out the census, whether you do it online or if somebody knocks on your door, please go ahead and um fill that out. It's obviously very important for our future to the future of Pasco County can mean a lot of things when it comes to funding. In addition to that, it can also
Um have positive implications when it comes to, you know, things like house seats that could be added to our area. So We're doing pretty good though. We have a great team that's doing an awesome, awesome job. Um September we surpassed our twenty ten self response rate, so that's really strong when you think we're in the middle of a pandemic and the team's doing better than it what we did in uh September of uh Um no, sorry, in two thousand and ten. Um I think we're at sixty six point two percent self response
rate. Our final two thousand ten self response rate was sixty five point five. So I'm sure we're gonna we're gonna make it there. So So thank you to all the citizens that have responded so far, but it is very, very important. It just takes a few minutes. I did it. I'm sure everybody here did it. I'm sure everybody I see in the audience has done theirs too, right? Everybody nods their heads. Yes, we did the census. Good, good. Um so, Commissioner, this morning, so on the consent agenda, we passed a resolution declaring September 25th as Disabled