Agenda - 03-10-20; 8-a - Minutes

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10 1 2 At its May 21, 2019 meeting, the Board of Commissioners approved the creation of an 3 Orange County Complete Count Committee (CCC) to develop and implement a 2020 Census 4 awareness campaign to encourage residents to respond. Board of Commissioners Vice Chair 5 Renee Price was appointed to lead the Committee, with Community Relations Director Todd 6 McGee as staff liaison. 7 8 The Committee is a group of community volunteers, local government elected officials and staff 9 dedicated to increasing awareness and motivating residents to respond to the 2020 Census. 10 The Committee held its first meeting in July and has been meeting regularly since. The 11 committee is comprised of 56 members representing 28 community organizations and local 12 governments. With increased awareness of the Census, more members are added to the CCC. 13 The CCC will work with community partners to focus on hard-to-count communities, including 14 people of color, non-English speaking communities, low-income families, people who live in 15 non-traditional housing and the refugee populations within the County. An accurate count of 16 these populations will ensure that all available federal resources will be provided to support 17 these communities. 18 19 Committee members represent a broad spectrum of government and community leaders from 20 business, non-profits, faith-based groups, and other community organizations. The Committee 21 has created a page on the Orange County website (www.orangecountync.gov/2020census) to 22 house information and materials, including links to resources for the public to use to help 23 promote awareness. 24 25 The Committee has created several subcommittees to focus on specific areas: 26 • Be Counted Sites: libraries, community centers, senior centers 27 • Publicity and Marketing: Public Information Officers for the County and Towns 28 • Hard to Count Non-English speaking: Chinese School, El Centro 29 • Hard To Count Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) with Clients: 30 Department of Social Services, Department of Health 31 • Housing: County, Town, Habitat for Humanity, EmPOWERment, 32 • Community Outreach: National Association for the Advancement of Colored 33 People (NAACP), churches, faith assemblies 34 • Business Community: Chambers of Commerce 35 • Schools: Orange County Schools, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools 36 • Colleges/Universities: Durham Technical Community College, UNC-Chapel Hill off- 37 campus 38 • Planning/GIS/Information Technology Support: Planning and Technology 39 Department Staffs 40 • Elected Officials: Serving as Ambassadors 41 42 Among the Strategies that the Committee plans to use are: 43 • Videos, Facebook, other social media outlets 44 • News online and in print 45 • Public Service Announcements on the radio, in buses 46 • Posters in local government facilities, medical clinics and businesses 47 • Get out the Count events 48 • Tabling at events 49 • Website with links 50 • Identify trusted partners within the hard-to-reach communities to deliver the message.