Drafter
Clerk 03/29/2018
Title
A MOTION requesting the executive to develop and transmit an implementation plan for the county to coordinate the efforts for the 2020 Census with a focus on Hard-to-Count communities to ensure a complete and accurate count and participation of all county residents regardless of age, income, race, housing status and citizenship status.
Body
WHEREAS, Article I, Section 2 of the United States Constitution requires the census to be conducted every ten years, and
WHEREAS, in addition to apportionment of House of Representative seats, the decennial census is also used for: enforcing voting rights and civil rights legislation; appropriating an estimated $590 billion in federal funds to local communities from sixteen large census guided programs, such as Medicaid, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children and Section 8 Housing; and producing and publishing critical data on unemployment, crime, poverty, health and education, and
WHEREAS, according to the George Washington Institute of Public Policy, for Fiscal Year 2015, Washington state received a total of $13.8 billion or $1,914 per capita of census guided federal funds, and
WHEREAS, for the 2017-2018 biennium, King County is expected to receive a total of $8 billion of direct and indirect federal funds and based on the George Washington Institute of Public Policy's figures, an undercount of one percent of the Asian and Hispanic/Latino populations, which compromises a large portion of the Hard-to-Count ("HTC") communities, would result in the loss of $87.8 million of federal funds to King County for the next decennial, and
WHEREAS, good census data is fundamental to being a data-driven and equity-driven government and therefore King County relies on census data to help us understand community conditions, develop and implement strategies that are most responsive to communities, and evaluate the effectiven...

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