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Minutes from the December 16, 2020 Commission on Persons with Disabilities Meeting
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Roll Call: 7 Commissioners present
Chair Morrison, Commissioner Linton, Commissioner Roloff, Commissioner Kenny, Commissioner Brillinger, Commissioner Hall, Commissioner Mullins
Minutes: July 15, October 7, 2020
Approved (Commissioner Mullins abstained because she was not present)
4-B Presentation on Census 2020
* Count of US population conducted every 10 years, last in 2010
* PowerPoint presented by Eric Fonstein with the City's Community Development Department with information on the Census
* Why it is important -- an undercount represents $1,000 in lost federal funding per year per person, this Census was radically different from past census including that fear may deter participation and that it was the first digital -- and of course, in a pandemic
* New technology, reduced funding
* The Mayor established a complete count committee to help with outreach including with Commissioner Morrison and Sarah Henry, PIO
* Outreach was targeted to community events (pre COVID), Census started March 12
* Early march had volunteer trainings, we could not use those volunteers
* Then the Shelter in Place health order started March 16 in Alameda County and March 19 statewide
* Resources reallocated to food bank, AUSD, posters created, chalk art, library take out, AMP insert, lawn signs
* When the Census was complete, the Statewide response was 69.6%. In 2010 it was 68.2%. In Alameda County the response was 75.8%. In the City of Alameda it was 79.2%, compared to 76.2% in 2010. Link to data: https://2020census.gov/en/response-rates/nrfu.html. Alameda Point/Coast Guard Island increased 13.1% from 2010 and the west end increased 5.2%
Commissioner Comments:
* Are there pockets of underserved communities that you have a sense of? People with disabilities for example? No - we only have the data by Census track, it will be a few years before variables are published before we know ...
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