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Census 2010 Complete Count Committee City of Frisco, Texas

A NEW PORTRAIT OF AMERICA. Census 2010 Complete Count Committee City of Frisco, Texas. Video??. Frisco Complete Count Committee. To promote awareness & participation in the Census

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Census 2010 Complete Count Committee City of Frisco, Texas

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  1. A NEW PORTRAIT OF AMERICA Census 2010 Complete Count Committee City of Frisco, Texas

  2. Video??

  3. Frisco Complete Count Committee To promote awareness & participation in the Census To encourage every resident to complete the 2010 Census questionnaire in a timely and accurate manner and mailit back • To ensure appropriate funding & representation

  4. Census in the Constitution! The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. Article I. Section 2.

  5. 5 • It’s Easy • It’s Important • It’s Safe

  6. 2010 Census • 10 Questions • 10 Minutes Shortest questionnaire in Census history 6 It’s Easy

  7. It WILL ask: • Name, sex, age, and date of birth • Race and ethnicity • Household relationship • Own or rent your home • It will NOT ask for bank account information, salary or income, citizenship or immigration status, and will never ask for your Social Security number. • Fewer questions than a credit card application!

  8. It’s Important Texas will gain 3 or 4 seats 8 • Counts everyone living in the U.S. • Guides planning for and used to determine location of new schools, hospitals, roads, stores. • Determines number of seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

  9. FRISCO Representation

  10. Making History 2010 Census Most significant Census in Frisco history

  11. Accuracy Counts! • 100,000 mark opens up a whole new avenue of grant monies for the next 10 years. • Still close enough to the 100,000 that accuracy and a complete count will be critical. • The CCC goal is to reach out toHard To Count populations and toincrease the mail-back response rate.

  12. Impacts City Budget for Next 10 Years! Used to allocate $400 Billion in federal funds each year, for the next 10 years Affects grant eligibility for: • libraries, • Community Development Block Grants, • city services, • schools, • roads, • and more.

  13. Mail It Back! • Safest • Most Accurate • Saves Your Tax Dollars 2000 Mail-Back Response Rate for Frisco was 74%

  14. It’s Safe By law, your responses are safe and cannot be shared with anyone, even another government agency. Personal information is secret.

  15. The Census Bureau strips all identifying information and publishes only summary data. Keeping your answers confidential

  16. 16 • It’s Easy • It’s Important • It’s Safe

  17. 2010Census.gov Census 2010 Complete Count Committee City of Frisco, Texas Chair: Bill Woodard 214-551-7102 bill.woodard@yahoo.com City of Frisco: Beckye Frey 972-292-5357 bfrey@friscotexas.gov

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