 Well, welcome everybody. This meeting tonight is a meeting of the Mayor's Neighborhood Leadership Cabinet and we've set up this presentation on the census for 2020 as a program that we also invited many other people to. So we're gonna begin with the first part of their meeting, get into the program, and then if you wanna leave after that, that's fine. And then just the members of the Mayor's Neighborhood Leadership Cabinet will continue their meeting after that. So first of all, everybody signed in, so we're all set with that. Please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. And then the Cabinet needs to approve their minutes from their July 16th meeting. I'd entertain a motion. Second, very good. Any additions or corrections to the minutes? Okay, seeing none. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Opposed? Thank you, those minutes will stand. Our future presentation today is on the 2020 Complete Count Committee. So we're in the process of setting this committee up. And tonight we have Tasha Jenkins here. She's a partnership specialist for the Census Bureau and she's out of the Chicago office. So I'm gonna turn it over to Tasha for her presentation. Good evening, everyone. Thank you for allowing me some time to talk with you this evening. As the mayor said, I'm a partnership specialist with the US Census Bureau. Wisconsin is part of the Chicago region. I actually don't live in Chicago, I live in Milwaukee, so my travel was not that far today. This is a, I wanna talk about the Complete Count Committee, specifically a partnership with Sheboygan and the Census Bureau as we prepare for the 2020 Census. I'll start with a video here on, if you click on that chat, I think that video will play. Yeah, sorry. I hear some, I hear some sound. Distributed to communities like yours each year and in 2020, can one girl in a small town, an architect in a major city and a suburban high school coach shape the future of the United States? Yes, they can, because every 10 years, the Census gives us that power. You can shape your future by responding to the 2020 Census. Where do we need new roads to make our lives easier? Where will new school programs help our children thrive? Where could a new health clinic benefit neighborhoods? The 2020 Census will inform these decisions and shape how billions of dollars will be distributed to communities like yours each year. And in 2020, you can respond to the Census online by phone or by mail. It's easy, safe and important. Make sure you and everyone you know is counted. Now is the time for you to get involved. Your community needs you. Together, we can educate and excite. Inspire and make sure every voice is heard. Together, we can shape our future. We can shape our future. You can go pass there. You can go pass that one. Marilyn Sanders is the Chicago Regional Census Center Director. And I would be remiss if I didn't start my comments with you by relaying her thanks for the opportunity to talk about partnership. This is just an overview of some of the things I'll cover tonight with you. I will be respectful of your time and be sure to not talk too long. In your folders, there's a series of information that's helpful as you have discussions about reaching populations that may be hard to count in Sheboyga populations that may be hesitant to respond to the census. Some of that information includes media materials. We do have the media materials available electronically and I've shared that with Chad. Chad is the Census Liaison for Sheboyga and so my communication is with him. He's the point of contact for anything that you need from the Census Bureau as you have those discussions. Also in the folder there's on the left side a guide that talks about the complete count committee and what some of the role of the complete count committee and just to summarize it for you, the complete count committee is really trusted voices in Sheboyga that could help talk about the importance of responding to the census when that information comes out in March of next year. That information is better heard from you guys than from the Census Bureau. Again, this is Marilyn Sanders. She's the regional center director out of Chicago. Our goal for the census is to count everyone once, only once and in the right place and she knows from her experience with working with the decennial censuses and this is her fourth one so she's been around for a long time. We can't do this work without partnering with you guys. In our region we have eight states, Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri, Michigan, Minnesota and fabulous Wisconsin. And so we have a lot of work we're doing currently to engage and develop partnerships throughout our region. There's six regions across the country and there's a number of partnership specialists doing the same kinds of work that I'm doing. In Wisconsin alone we have about 24 partnership specialists here, spread out throughout the communities. Some are focused on community-based organizations. Some are focused on governmental municipalities. We also have a couple of media specialists that are working here as well. In this state alone we have four area census offices that are open Milwaukee, Green Bay. You're kind of in the middle of those two, Madison and Eau Claire. So the field work in terms of hiring staff that will go out in the field, most of that work is happening in those area census offices with a connect to our Chicago Regional Census Center. Well that's a lovely picture. I don't know if you guys wanna take a picture. You certainly have the ability to take a picture if you want to at some point tonight. There are release forms in your packet if you do wanna take a picture and want that shared on the census website. We do have on the Census Bureau website all the municipalities and everywhere that complete count committees have formed and we certainly wanna make sure that Sheboygan is on that map. The purpose of tonight is really to provide an overview for you about the 2020 census and what it means to partner with us in terms of establishing that complete count committee. Why do we do the census? We do the decennial census every 10 years based on the constitutional mandate. Article one, section two of the constitution mandates that we count every one residing in the United States every 10 years. There are a number of important uses of the census data. The two big uses of the data that I'll speak to tonight, the apportionment of the House of Representatives happens every 10 years based on census data. So it's important that we have an accurate count for Wisconsin so that our seats are represented in the House of Representatives. Also, federal funding, $675 billion annually is allocated based on census data. So for communities that don't have a complete count, they can lose resources and they can lose those resources for 10 years. As we use the data from the census, it helps with a number of planning things that happen at the federal level, at the state level and at the local level. As an example, children under five is one of the populations that we count. The data from the census impacts planning around schools, impacts planning for daycares and other things locally. It impacts funding for schools, funding for SNAP and other federal programs. As households receive information about responding to the 2020 census, that information will start to come out and start to reach households in March. The first initial phase will happen March 12th through March 20th. People will be asked to respond to the questionnaire. And for 2020, people can still respond with a paper questionnaire. They can respond over the phone and new for 2020, they can respond online. Online is the new addition to ways to respond. And we're hoping with those three ways to respond that our response rate will increase from what we've had in the past census. These languages that you see on the screen are the languages that are available for people as they respond online and on the phone. We know as we put the message out about the importance of responding to the census, that the confidentiality of the data that we collect is an issue and is a question. And I can tell you, number one, the folks that work at the Census Bureau take a lifetime oath to not share data, to keep anything that we have access to confidential. And again, it's a lifetime oath. There are a number of penalties at the federal level for people that breach that confidentiality. As a bureau, we have a priority of working with federal partners to ensure that the data we collect is secure and we have not had any data issues at the Census Bureau. We also cannot share that data. That includes sharing it with other federal departments. This mail participation rate is one of the resource tools that the Census Bureau has on our website. This can give you a sense of what has been our response rate for the last census, which was 2010, and also the 2000 census. From this map, you can look from a statewide level. The statewide level is what you see on the screen, but you can zero down all the way down to a census tract level. In our region, Wisconsin had the number one response rate in 2010 that is also the number one response rate in the country. So as a state, we want to maintain that level of number one. We'd like to be number one for a lot of things, and this is one of them. Our operational timeline, we have done a lot of things up to date to verify the addresses that we have in our database. We started with some work with municipalities. One of the things that we sent out was a local update to census addresses. The acronym is LUCA. That information asks municipalities about new construction that's happening in their communities, new construction that will be occupied by April 1st, 2020. April 1st, 2020 is the important date because that census date, when people are responding to the 2020 census, they're responding based on what's happening in their household as of April 1st, 2020. So we wanted to make sure we captured anything that any new construction that was happening that would have folks occupied in those addresses as of that date so they're in our database. We also had a number of people out in the field verifying the addresses that we have in our database, and you may have seen some folks from the census in your community. The mayor's office may have gotten calls, hey, there's someone from the Census Bureau on my block. We did have people out from August through October doing that field work. As we move to the beginning of the year, we will send people out again to connect with places called group quarters. Group quarters are facilities that have a number of non-related people that reside. Those are places like shelters, nursing homes, dorms. We start our work with those facilities a lot earlier in the year because it takes us a little time to get that wrapped up. Then in March, we will start to send out to households the 2020 census questionnaire invitation to respond to the census. That will happen starting in March. We're asking people to respond. You don't have to wait till April 1st. You can respond before that. In the summer, we will send people out again to start to knock on doors and addresses that haven't responded to the census yet. Then we wrap up our work at the end of the summer. And then by the end of 2020, we deliver to the office of the president the aggregated data that we collect. And then we deliver to the states April 1st of 2021, that data. That's when states will find out if they've maintained, lost, or gained any house seats. That's when the work of redistricting and the state levels start to happen. So that's a quick overview of everything that's on that operational timeline. I talked a little bit about group quarters. And again, that work will start at the beginning of the year and we will take that work really the first quarter of 2020, that work will happen. In addition to the group quarters, we also know that we need to do some work to capture people that are homeless, for example. So we have a series of things that we will do to connect with anyone. Again, it's counting everyone in the right place. And we wanna make sure we're capturing everyone regardless of where they're at. This service-based enumeration is another way that we're connecting to ensure that we connect with people regardless of where they're at. And then enumeration of transitory locations, that really focuses on folks that are homeless, that may be at a soup kitchen. Our work to capture and count homeless folks really happens the night before April 1st, 2020. We definitely connect with communities to know where we need to be at and work with the municipalities and communities to make sure that we're doing that evening of April 1st, 2020. Again, another term for another focus effort on the targeted non-shelter outdoor. Again, we will find where people are and connect so that we're counting everyone in the right place. Complete count committees. Those are volunteer committees established by communities. We have not dictated to anyone what a complete count committee looks like, how many people should be on it, what sectors of the community they represent. The goal for complete count committees are really to have trusted voices from Sheboygan that can really talk about who might be those populations that are hard to count and what kinds of strategies can we be engaged in to communicate with them so that they can respond when they have the census information in their hands. The structure for complete count committees, again, can vary. I've seen complete count committees that have been a size of 40. I've seen complete count committees that have been one. The structure depends on what works best for Sheboygan and I'm sure you guys, along with the mayor, will talk about what that looks like for Sheboygan. The complete count committees are typically appointed by the highest elected official and that would be mayor, the mayor. The liaison for Sheboygan is Chad and he has been very helpful. These are some of the sectors in your community that have been represented on various complete count committees that have been established, someone for the library, the health department, the media, all ways and sectors that can participate and certainly have discussions about who we need to reach out to. These are samples of how complete count committees have been organized and again, our job at the Census Bureau is really to provide resources for you as you have discussions about how you wanna move forward to prepare for responding to the 2020 census. No size is the wrong size. The size that you determine is the appropriate size for Sheboygan. This is a different view of that timeline that I kind of reviewed with you a few moments ago. Here are some examples of who might be hard to count populations. Children under five is a hard to count population. Interesting enough, in the 2010 census we did from the self-response period, children under five was the highest under counted population. And some of what we've learned from that is that some more complicated households contributed to that number. For example, if a mom and a dad aren't in the same household and one thought the other counted the child and the child got missed, those were some of the examples of what happened. The homeless seniors for Wisconsin, we have a lot of snowbirds. Those are some examples of who might be hard to count populations for Sheboygan. The response outreach area mapper, better known as Rome, is another tool on the census website. This does some predictions of what the percentage of non-response might be for your community for 2020. There's a number of data feeds that help determine what that prediction is for Rome. On this map, the lighter the area, the better it is in that community. But you can also, for this, look at a state level and drill down to a local census tract level. The nice thing that you will find on Rome, there is a lot of data about your community. There's demographic breakdown of the population in Sheboygan, even by census tract. There's a breakdown of the number of folks that have health insurance, for example. The number of households that have computers. So a lot of data is on this Rome that, again, can help you have those conversations about where should we target our messaging about the importance of responding to the census. In some of the meetings that we've had, we've had groups that wanted to take some time to have some dialogue about who might be some of the hard to count populations in their communities. And I don't know if you wanna do that now. One of the questions I do wanna ask, has anyone participated on a complete count committee in the past? Has anyone worked with the... Oh, Chassie, that's why he's a liaison. Has anyone participated with the Census Bureau in terms of helping to get some of the field work done in 2010? There's a hand over here. You can go back. Again, for the discussion for Sheboygan is who are those hard to count populations? What are some resources and some ways you can get messages out to those populations? Organizations, people, however that needs to happen for you guys. Next steps are determined by you guys. I know this meeting will go on. There's some things on the agenda that you need to talk about, but in terms of some discussions about the 2020 census and getting that message out before March, when those things start to hit people's household is really the focus and the next steps for Sheboygan. In addition to promoting and getting the message out about the importance of responding to the 2020 census, we also have a great deal of hiring that we have to do to get the field work that's necessary done. We want to hire people in those communities where the field work happens. So we're asking for a partnership to also get the word out about responding and applying for jobs that are available. The process is a simple process. We don't require a resume. What we require is that you have to be close to 18 to apply. You don't have to be 18 when you apply. You do have to be 18 when you start the position. You need a social security number and you need an email address to start the process. During the process, you will be asked a number of situational questions that really just try to get a sense of what your work life experience is and then you will get a follow-up call from a recruiter asking more questions about what you're looking for, are you looking for part-time work, those kinds of questions. And then we try to match you and put you in a place that fits what you're looking for. As the CCC has formed and you have a meeting to talk about targeting messages, there are a number of resources that we can provide for you. Some of that data that I talked about on Rome, we can certainly get that information to you, specific for Sheboygan, specific for its census tracts, all of that information. And I'll stop there and see if there's any questions of anyone. Yes. One of the things we're doing, some of my counterparts that are covering the community side are reaching out and connecting with among associations and organizations so that they too can respond to the census. Maybe with an interpreter from one of those organizations. Yes. Yes. As we recruit, we definitely, even in terms of our partnership specialist, we do have a wide variety of partnership specialists in Wisconsin, including among staff. And then in terms of our recruitment, we do want to hire, again, we want to hire people that are in the communities that we need work done in. So hopefully with those efforts, we will have Hmong folks that are in the Hmong community connecting, partnering with them so that they are not undercounted. They're of the census. And I'm wondering in the 2020 census, not that I want the boxes and boxes of free stuff, but is there something, because a question came up, is there some, a lot of these people in the audience today represent public areas where people are coming and going. So is there handouts or brochures or rack cards or something that can be shared that can start to be disseminated in these public locations? Yeah. Have boxes and boxes of materials and things, better known as SWAC, like we had in 2010, but we do have things that we can get out to you. And I can share with you, Chad, a catalog that has a list of things. We have like Post-it notes, pens, lapel pens, back, chip clips, a number of things that we can certainly work with you to get here so that you have that available. That would be good. And then do you have just information? I mean, like a, I don't know, question and answer card or something that organizations can make available at their desk and start having dialogue with people that walk in the door to use their services? Yes, we do. We have some, there's a couple of brochures. We have, they're eight and a half by 11 size. Census 101, a document, two versions of that. One has a different format. One is a more visual format of that. We have a couple of messages about the confidentiality of data. All of those things I can get to you. We have them electronically and we also have paper copies of that. I don't see it in this form, but I do, but I can get that to you. Because that would be, I guess I'd look to some of you organizational people that have people coming in your door would that be helpful in starting to have a, make it available to the public now to just start that dialogue? Yes. Right. So in terms of communication about what our census field staff will look like and how they're batched, we do send that information out and we'll send that out as we hit those various phases of our work. When we started our address canvassing, we did send that information out to all law enforcement entities. So we'll continue to send those messages out. We do also, there is on the 2020 census website a list of the questions that will be on the census and I'll share that link with Chad for that. And then was, I think there was another part. Sure. The other thing that I've heard at all of the meetings I've been at, that how, what does that, that invitation that comes in the mail, what will that look like? So once we know what that is, I will also send that out as well. So what I think is gonna happen from here is that being the liaison for the city, I have, we'll have all your contact information. I've got other people that wanted to come some representatives from the United Way and such. So we will get kind of a group of emails together and we'll keep you as we get information from the census. We'll forward that on to you guys. I'm thinking, given that this is kind of the introduction of the complete counts committee, in the next couple of weeks I'll be sending out a doodle poll to try to get the group back together and have some further dialogues on hard to count populations and how we might be able to engage in that and have a further discussion as it relates to what was just discussed this evening. So stay tuned for more information as we move forward with it. But I think it's a lot of us in the room depend on federal funding in our organizations. And this is a key part of that allocation. So I think there's benefit in us all kind of working together to make this the best it can be. Yes it is. I can't think of anything that's prohibited. In terms of helping, if someone needs help reading the question before they can answer it, I mean, you're certainly welcome to do that. All right, thank you very much. You have my contact information. If you think of more questions, certainly I feel free to give me a call, email, whatever. Thank you. Tasha, thank you very much. We appreciate your appearance tonight. Next, we can go on to the reports from the different groups. Let's start with Gateway. Tina? Mayor, maybe you could just wait till the ones that are leaving could just. That's fine. Yeah, if anyone would like to stay, that's okay as well too. Thank you. Okay, Tina, the floor is yours. I don't feel like there's enough to. I don't think that we can have the phone. Definitely have lots of us going on. That is Indian and Puerto Rican. Well, I'm not quite ready. So that are our partners in this program. They should not be here tonight. I don't think that's enough of us. We'll be back after that. I wish I could say it was a clean site, but it's really not. It's got no tanks, but it still has contamination. No tanks. We were being heard and we could work up the hall. And what were they? It's kind of one of those things that we kind of did in whole. And I was like that. I was like that's pretty smart. And all of us in the station have a loop thing. And all the staff were in the loop. We're kind of doing that every year. But we have a different team. Okay. The municipal building. The mayor's neighbor leadership was at the municipal building, I think. Any questions for Indiana corridor? Okay. Thank you for that. Next is near north. Five dollars in the W.A. that are, I think, of our safety and we have a good motivation. Okay. Thank you. Any questions for Joe? Hearing none. Nobody from Maple Heights. King Park. Nobody here from there. Memorial. Thank you for that. Any questions for Memorial? Hearing none. Is there anybody from Volrath North Point? Okay. Thank you for that. Historic grant. We had to live it. And we've got another coming opportunity with a late issue award. Natural resources partnership. Who has improved the persons of these friends of the North Point on getting ready to speak to people on time. A lot of people out there. And they're looking for neighborhood movement. And they're all here soon to do it. So they're meeting at our next meeting. And there was a lot of interest in that meeting about that. And to ask specifically about that idea. But about something as a group, kind of a social type of change. Hopefully that will freeze momentum and get around to the idea of the project. Sounds good. Any questions for historic grant? There's nobody here from End Park, but Janet's been attending their meeting. So can you give a synopsis of what's been going on? They were struggling with it. They started to need to like to be more kind of things. And that's what we're doing. Okay. Thank you. I have one more thing. Yes. I thought of that. The library there, the table and the event. It's really well that we had. It's playing near grant. That ended up being like half the group that showed up. Now, all the people, letters, their events, they're really ways for it to go. She can't deal with them. And I'm sure they'd be happy to have it going. And in addition to that, each of them reached out with a wire for donation. And they were really in the way. They were responding to the bell. Six days went, they'll be in the hole. They're gonna go for that through the evening. So they were really responsive and thought that they were okay. Keep them in mind, they're looking for donation. Molly, yeah. Right. They're comfortable, probably. She would give her a present. We can follow up in a minute with her contact. And maybe that would give her idea. I wonder if we should bring her back and maybe do a presentation as it gets closer to the new block party season. Okay. Should I turn it back over to you, Mr. Mayor? Thank you everyone for those reports. Next would be, we don't have Penny Weber here. Do we have anything about Sheboyga neighborhood pride? Okay. Then review of the neighborhood celebration at King Park, Chad. That's one of the things I guess that Rick Gork said, that's what you guys kind of seem like. They're all just like friends. It's just kind of, you know, that's what I'd like to see kind of all over the place. Three point for anybody else? Sounds like you like it. Okay. Okay. Then the next item is to discuss the update from the city's five year consolidated plan for the community development block grant program that's your future. It is. So we, this is timely because the census presentation, and I know, unfortunately, I don't think it's a subliminal way of getting a sign up for another meeting. Yes, it is. Because a lot of what we do on a daily basis for ending in 2019 is the end of a five year, we'll be gathering quickly from a lot of you guys. So you're gonna probably see the survey coming out in the near future, the hotline survey, the public survey, the needs of the community should be spent in relation to policy. I think, you know, the last plan was done in 2014. I don't think a lot has to change. So we've used a lot of our block grant projects we serve as students, projects, art project stuff. So, you know, I just want you guys to be aware that this is a serious issue in your business because that's how we fund it. And it's very timely with the census because everything in the census is true. And all the money that Chad's been coming up with for our grant programs, for these cleanup programs, it's all coming from that pile of money that he gets. So very important to us to maintain or improve that number. Chad, could you tell us a little bit about the TIF district that's been extended one year? Yeah, so TIF, TIF 11 is a TIF district that encompasses the Washington Square and the south side of the town. That district has been on the first one to be used and will be opposing the understate statute that will be open for one more extension and collective the increment that it generates. So the increment is any new tax base that we've generated with the new district based on development. So you can capture that increment and then you can use it for 75% of the tax base for the housing and the affordable and then you're able to use it as an energy in this part it should be used for solar. In this case, the city is capturing around 700 into the second day of the fund. For the EAP program to try to encourage the very central business buildings to convert the second floor, second floors, particularly in the history of the city, the life of the villages, the space, the use of doors, but not different. So you might be able to do more to do more storage funds. Some of it's gonna be targeted towards specific neighborhoods but nearly any Indiana corridor from 9th Street to 4th Street, Pennsylvania and 14th Street. So major corridors. So the idea would be to do a small facade by your predictable long side of your house or just the side of your house. Recycle the most kind of incentives in that. And then last but not least, there's some money in there for UW to continue to, city staff to continue to crosswalks and center city neighborhoods to a lot of corners that we have co-require crosswalks. It isn't stuff that you're supposed to be putting in so that will give you some money to do that kind of traditional street lighting. So the idea is for as TIF districts close to the city. Questions about those last items? All right, then we're down to adjournment. I entertain a motion. Before you adjourn, there's a number four. I don't know if there's any open forum on any kind of other best practices or anything like that, so I just want to say that small one at home, we're dividing up our, we've had a kind of a planning session and so Janet is a community planner and the part that she is thinking on more well. So as we move into the 2020 season, we're gonna be shuffling around and instead of seeing Nancy as only a couple, a little bit of Janet's gonna come, they put in for the only department that's hiring a new staff person, a great coordinator, or whoever that person is, and we'll talk about the solution. Thanks for sharing that information. Anybody else have anything else to add? Move to adjourn. Thank you for that motion in support. All those in favor of adjournment, please signify by saying aye. Opposed? Motion passes. Thanks very much for your time tonight.