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    5.    
2020 CENSUS COMPLETE COUNT STEERING COMMITTEE
Meeting Date: 09/21/2020  
Subject:    Federal, State, Regional, and Local Updates
Submitted For: David Twa
Department: County Administrator  
Referral No.:  
Referral Name: Federal, State, Regional, and Local Updates
Presenter: Matthew Lardner Contact: Mathew Lardner, 925-674-7813
Information
Referral History:
This is a standing item on the Steering Committee agenda to receive new Census information that has developed or been disseminated from the federal, State, regional and local levels since the last Steeering Committee meeting.
Referral Update:
Federal (U.S. Census Bureau)
  • Census 2020 Self Response Rate as of 9/15/20: ?
    • National – 65.9%?
    • California – 68.3%?
    • Contra Costa County – 76.4%?
  • USCB announced they were cutting data collection short one month to September 30?
  • Federal judge ordered temporary restraining order for USCB to stop winding down operations until case can be heard on Sept. 17 about re-extending data collection through October 31?
  • Enumerators and USCB facing challenges in field, are ill prepared, and experiencing high turnover ?
  • Core H3 team facing challenges coordinating with USCB for SBE?
  • Service Based Enumeration and enumerating those living outdoors will now be done between September 22 – September 24?
  • Partnership Specialists are still working and can provide partners with collateral as needed.?
  • Mobile Questionnaire Assistance ?
    • Continue to coordinate with partnership specialists and partners to identify sites for final push?
    • We still have 20 devices at our admin office that can be deployed?
State (California Complete Count)
  • UWBA received $47,475 State NRFU funding on behalf of Contra Costa County to use in 5 specific census tracts and contracted with Monument Impact and Richmond Community Foundation to conduct outreach in these specified tracts. ?
  • Working with HomeBase to coordinate SBE with USCB?
  • Received PPE from the state to be used for Questionnaire Assistance and Census related events?
  • Final Report due November 16?
Region 3 Updates (United Way Bay Area)
  • Working with County to distribute and manage NRFU funding from state?
  • Continuing social media campaign?
  • Starting up a new phone banking tool?
Local Updates (Contra Costa County and Partners)
  • Exhausted grant funds and ?starting to close out contracts?
  • New Collateral?
  • Direct mail?
  • Food Distribution / Backpack giveaways?
  • Grocery Bags?
    • 5000 bilingual bags distributed to ethnic grocery stores, restaurants, and food dist. sites in low self-responding areas?
  • Census Caravans?
    • San Pablo and Richmond?
    • Oakley and Brentwood?
    • Monument Corridor?
    • Pittsburg, Bay Point, and Antioch?
    • Hercules, Rodeo, Crockett?
  • Continuing to work with partners in low SRR tracts in Richmond, Antioch, San Pablo, and the Monument Corridor?
  • Wrapped up Digital Ad Campaign?
In the last weeks we focused on HTC tracts and languages we had less on the ground outreach in, specifically covering (Tagalog, Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese Farsi)
Recommendation(s)/Next Step(s):
RECEIVE federal, state, regional, and local updates on preparation for the Census.
Fiscal Impact (if any):
None.
Attachments
Federal, State, Regional, and Local Updates

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