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Home My WebLink About11.a. 1990 Census; Dakota County Legislative Network; Coates Building Inspection ContractIff 11110h , dy 0 2675-145T1-1 ST W, RpSEQNT. MINNESOTA 55068 OJ Lpun� 612 423-4411 nq (J� , TO: Mayor Knutson Councilmembers Napper Tucker Walsh Willard FROM: Stephan Jilk, Administrator/Clerk DATE October 1, 1981 RE: 1990 Census Gentlemen: Attached is a notice from the Met Council in regards to a 1990 Census Local Review Training Workshop. Considering the importance of the 1990 census to Rosemount, this workshop and the entire census issue must be met with a seriousness by our city. I have designated Mike Wozniak to attend and continue to coordinate these activities for Rosemount. Mike, from his experience in his previous employment, will serve us well in this matter. As planner for a regional planning agency, he coordinated the census data for many governmental units in the region and dealt directly with the Bureau of Census in corporate boundaries, census tract boundaries, population information gathering and final population calculations. Having someone with this experience is a real plus for Rosemount smj Attachment 7R _ Rk'fN l.Ii�Y Metropolitan Council 300 Metro Square Building Seventh and Robert Streets St. Paul, Minnesota 55101 Telephone (612) 291-6359 September 17, 1987 TO: Local Government Officials and 1990 Census Liaisons FROM: Steve Keefe, Chair, Metropolitan Council S l�. SUBJECT: 1990 Census Local Review Training Workshop When: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1987 8:30 a.m. - Registration 9 - 11 a.m. - Workshop Where: METROPOLITAN COUNCIL CHAMBERS (Parking is available in 3rd floor, Metro Square Bldg. Metro Lots 1 and 3 7th and Robert Sts. St. Paul immediately to the east and north) RSVP: Marj Segell,'291-6363, by Monday, Get. 5 1987 The Metropolitan Council, Minnesota State Planning Agency and U.S. Bureau of the Census are cosponsoring a workshop to help local governments in the Twin Cities Area prepare for local review of the 1990 Census. Although the census is still several years away, the massive scale of this effort requires extensive preparation well in advance. It is critical that local government establish an effective local review process for the 1990 Census to ensure that the data collected is as accurate as possible. The local review program provides local government with an opportunity to check the 1990 Census block -level housing unit counts. Participating in the local review program requires that each local government do its "homework" before 1990 so that its records are in order for checking the census housing unit totals. At the workshop on Oct. 8, staff from the State Planning Agency who have been trained by the Census Bureau will describe the local review process, identify the resources available to assist you in this task and answer your questions. The information you receive at the workshop will allow you to make the necessary advance preparations so that your community can conduct an effective review under what will be very tight time constraints at the time of the census. At least two officials in your jurisdiction will be invited to the workshop --one elected and one appointed. If you have designated a census liaison for the local review program, that person will also be invited. We strongly urge that at least one representative from your community attend the workshop. If you have already received the 1990 Decennial Census Local Review Program Information Booklet from the Census Bureau, please bring it to the workshop. We are enclosing a reprint from the June 1987 issue of Minnesota Cities which will give you a brief overview of the role of the cities and other local units of government in the 1990 Census. We look forward to seeing you at the workshop, Enclosure An Equal opportunity Ernplover Your city's important role in the 1990 Census TAKEN s.ndm Sweeney, seWor Planner, car of Dukith Although the 19% census is almost three years away, it's not too soon for Minnesota municipal officials to start preparng to make sure that every man, woman, chid, and housing unit in their communities is counted accurately. Why? Because this is what's at stake from the results of a national census: • Political power. The census deter- mines the number of seats to which Minnesota is entitled in the U.S. House of Representatives and the alignment of district boundaries in our state Legislature. Fair representa- tives for our municipalities depends on counting everyone in the census. Missed people in the census could mean under -representation in these legislatures and a loss of political power. At the county and municipal levels, too, we often draw election districts using census statistics to ensure equal representation. • Federal and state program funds. Even though the federal government has eliminated or cut back many grant programs in recent years, there std are many that use census statistics in their formulas to return billions of dollars each year to the nation's local governments. Mate RDVeS nnMe11tS ( Minnesota) also use census figures to dispense shares of revenues collected through gasoline, liquor. sales, and cigarette taxes to local governments. Each person not counted a the census therefore means a potential loss of dollars for any city that takes part in these federal- and state -forded pro- grams. And — importantly — what's often overlooked at the fact that census figures stand for 10 years. For the next decade, they form the statistical foundation for dividing these program funds among • Planning for the future. Your municipal planning departments know how important census bets are in developing private and public -improvements, such as shopping centers and schools, that benefit your community. ty. The Chamber of Commerce and other economic developers make use of census demographic and economic numbers daily to help entrepreneurs plan, locate, or expand their facilities. I`hese public and private planning decisions often involve years of worts, hundreds of jobs, and invest- ments of huge amounts of money. Accurate census information is essential to help ensure the success of these developments. So it's easy to see that our city governments have a vested interest in bell** to make the 1990 census of Minnesota the most accurate every taken in the 200 -year history of the federal census. Based on what I learned at a confer- ence last spring in Washington spun- sored by the U.S. Census Bureau, there are four major roles city govern- ments can play in helping to shape the 1990 census. They are: Take part in the Census Bureau's "Local Review Programin This is a way for local government of6ciab, on a voluntary basis, to con- duct an independent check of the Cen- sus Bureau's housing unit counts during the census process. This gives city hall the opportunity to Spot any discrepancies cies n the census housing totals by comparing them with its own totals derived from local sources, such as housing and demolition permits, util- ity hookups, and Property tax records. As you can see, participating in this program requires each municilialky to do is homework before 1990, so that its records are in order for checking the ceps totals. Since the census will be taken by nail iii 1990, the Census Bureau must have an up-to-date address fist of all housing units. Missing an occupied housing unit meam missing people. So when the Census Bureau gives housing unt totals to local VT - FROM MINNESOTA CITIES JUNE 1987 enunents in 1989 on a block -by -block basis, your city should be ready to check them for accuracy against your own records and report any discrepan- cies to the census office. Last November, the Census Bureau sent its first communication about the Loral Review Program to the chief elected official of each city, town, vil- lage, borough, township, and county in America. One of the main suggestions in this package was that each local government appoint a census local review liaison person on its staff to handle this important program and to be the primary contact for the Census Bureau. I urge each city in Minnesota to name its own census liaison and to take part in the Bureau's Local Review Program. You will be informed about scheduled 1987 local review workshops co-spon- sored, by the Census Bureau, the Min- nesota State Data Center, and the Minnesota Federal -State Cooperative for Population Estimates. Be sure to represent your city at these workshops to get full detail about this vital effort for an accurate 1990 count for your may. Reply quickly to the Census Bureau's boundary and annexation survey Results from the 19% census will be based on local government boundaries as of Jan. 1. 1990, determined by the Bureau's annual boundary and annexa- tion survey. The Bureau wilt survey each lord government in 1989, 1988, 1989, and 19M in order to obtain the latest boundary change information. Make sure your inunicipality responds to the survey questionnaire nnaire so that your city's census figures won't be based on obsolete boundary tines that may not include ar the territory (and people) contained in recent annexa- tions. Also, make sure any boundary disputes with Beighboring 1 are resolved before 1990. Begin pig ways promote public cooperation with the census Among the many ways city govern- ments helped promote the census to the public in 1980 was the appointment of blue-ribbon citizen committees, often known as "Complete Count Commit- tees." These groups distributed Byers and posters, made speeches, appeared on radio and TV talk shows, wrote newspaper articles and Letters to the editor, and generally lent their prestige toward gaining public understanding of the local importance of a complete count to their communities. The Bureau's own massive publicity cam- paign will get under way late in 1989 and individual city haq efforts to com- plement the national drive should also begin about then and continue through the entire census process unci summer 1990. (Census Day is Apel 1, 1990.) For now, your city's public information office or other appropriate staff could start thinking about different promotion techniques, perhaps in cooperation with the area's media, business, and civic communities. Be prepared to help recruit temporary census workers Job opportunities as temporary cen- sus workers will begin in some parts of the country in 1988, while others will open up in mid -1989 and field positions will continue through the summer of 1990. City halb can help the Census Bureau recruit these temporary employees by working with the State Employment Service, urging residents to apply, providing potential employ- ment pools. encouraging community organizations to join in the recruitment drive, and adding job announcements to the local census promotion effort. While the census will be done largely by marl, many workers are needed for the vital door-to-door follow-up pork to make sure everyone gets counted. Perhaps our cities could offer the Cen- sus Bureau free office splice for several months to test and train these census workers from our communities. Remember, every 10 years the census provides a big economic boost to many communities through its hiring of more dm 400,000 temporary workers to staff over 400 temporary offices nation wise. B cities and other local govero- meets participate in the 1990 census in the ways I've outlined here, I'm con- vexed that we in Kmnesots will benefit by having the most accurate population and housing counts possible. These accurate counts will be essential for planning our communities it the last decade of this century and providing a solid statistical springboard for our journey into the 21st century. Our nation has been taking a census from its beginning; in fact, the U.S. Constitution mandates the decennial count. The 1990 census wig mark the 200th anniversary of the first decennial tally in 1790, when George Washington was president and Thomas Jederson was in charge of the enumeration. City governments can make a differ- ence in getting a complete count. We should all remember that it's not just the census of the United States that we're talking about here. It's also the census of Nfinnesota and of every local government in the state. The census will be taken by our residents first in their own homes by serving as their own household's census taker, and for some, as tempo- rary census workers in their own com- munities doing the necessary door-to- door follow-ups so essential to achiev- ing a complete count of everyone. And it will be our own residents and com- munities that will benefit from an accu- rate count or suffer the consequences of an incomplete count. Through working with the Census Bureau. we Nf nnesota appal o& mals can help make the 1990 Census of Population and Housing the best a our nation's history. It will truly remain wheat it has been for 200 years: a "National Community Event. ■ Sanders Sweeney is Senior Planner hr the City of Dtdutb. Mr. Sweeney represented Mmiesota's m ink afities at a recent Ceases Buren coniereace in Wash Won Additional information about the 1990 Census of Population and Hausing may be obtamed by writing: Chief, Decennial Planning Division, Bureau of the Census, Department of Com- merce, Washington, D.C. 20233; Regional Director, Bureau of the Cen- sus, One Gateway Center, 4th B State Streets, Kansas City, KS 66101. Cities alt Over Anuric are, di3- covering that lnsituform is the answer to deteriorating pipe Problems. Detroit. St. Louis, Washington, D.C.. Baltimore. New Orleans. Seattle. Jacksonville, and dozens of oNnercities have used the Insituform process to reconstruct crumbling sewers and other pipeline systems witfmt excavation. insituform is non. diSPLIPtiVe. o n - disruptive. cost-effective, clean, fast. and in many cases, stronger than the original pipe. For more information, write or can today. �till�ctler�., i n AK c.EKtpat, tsyG. - Edna. MN 55435 (612) M1006 lase 1M 15 w 'y Advisory. Co-Chairpeople Elizabeth Anderson Holt Attorney Gerald Patterson Mgr. N. W. Bell Advisory Council Robert Bergg Manager NSP Kathy Bland Exec. Rosemount C of C Gary Brown Hastings City Admin. Don Chaptelaine Mgr. Farmers Union Oil Kevin Frazeil Mendota Heights City Admin. Tom Hedges Eagan City Admin. Frederick W. Joy Dakota County Admin. Tom Lindquist Gov. Rel. Sperry Steven G. Loading Commissioner -4th Dist. Connie Morrison Mayor of Burnsville Mike McNabb Attorney Margaret Peck Business Ink Art Seaberg MN Rep. Dist. 38B D. J. Steele Centel Gerald E. Stelzel Rosemount C of C Darril Wegscheld MN Senate fist. 37 *Dakota County Legislative Network 10 $'{ ,■ 217 livestock Exchange Building South St. Paul, Minnesota 55075 SEF': ?,1.1987-- 451-2266 1.1987451-2266 CL ERKS OFFICE - TO: Dakota County Legislative Network g4011"'f CITY OFfiinSF FROM: Elizabeth Anderson Holt Gerald Patterson Co -Chairpersons RE: Meeting Notice - October 8, 1987 Airport Noise Abatement in Dakota County The Dakota County Public Issues Network will meet for breakfast on Thursday, October 8, 1987, at 7:30 a.m. at the Yankeee Square Inn on the corner of Pilot Knob Road and Ya6kee Doodle in Eagan. The cost of the breakfast is $4.25. The speaker will be Walter,, Rockenstein. He is the Chair of the Metropolitan- Aircraft Sound Abatement Council. Kevin Frazell,,,,_, City Administrator for Mendota Heights, will host the meeting. We have a meeting planned fo,r November 19 that will be hosted by Jerry Stelzel, Chair for Dakota County Townships. The meeting „will deal with surface water management and watershed planning for the county. The location of that meeting 'w_i l l 'hb sent out at a later date. The membership dues in' the'', amount of $75 should be sent to the above address, ,as—soon as possible. We need to maintain dues 'at'` '475` per month in order to expand our program and -offer-,,,programs on cable TV throughout the county in :the "coming year. We also hope to find a part-ti.me staff person to promote publicity and membership. :this year. Thank you for your continued support ofthe.,, Network. We will be forwarding a survey to ybu,'in the near future and request that you provide us with input as far as your goals and concerns for the .Networ,k Watch the cable listings= for the broadcasts of our meetings. They will be shown two times each week for one month throughout the county. We will be updating our, stationery this month. We apologize for using erronObius ' titles for a number of the members of the Advisory Council. We hope to see you at the next meeting on October S. Please RSVP. Participatin�� , D6r: ER z A ton Holt OA ra ld Pa Terson Apple Valley, Burnsville, Farmington, Hastings, Lakeville, Northern Dakota County, c Rosemount, South St. Paul/Inver Grove Heights, and Cities and Townships of Dakota County. E ammm7Wl me i711T10NGo i i -- rm -- {. -- FIG. 15 LEGEND F+mctkml classification TRANSPORTATION PLAN OR'ARTER� ARTERIAL �...� COLLECTOR RQ S E M O u N T --- PARKWAY UNDESIGNATED: LOCAL ROADS MINNESOTA 1-_-_i A4. gdk)/ 4 c� Gt Awu,- rL vrc�t cLQ' c.U. 1. 44", r� .c...cIv . SES' 211987 CLERK'S OFFICE PITY or R0^,FWA011 T