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MEMORANDUM
MAR :2 3 2000
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TO: City Clerk
Potential Partners
FROM: Irene Gomez-Bethke
Partnership Specialist
RE: Partnership Agreement
Dear City Clerk:
Greetingsl ReœnUy, I sent you an information kit with a special invitation to look at the materials and
become a Partner with Census 2000. I work for the United States Department of Commerce, Census
Bureau, as a Partnership Specialist The purpose of the Partnership Program is to create awareness,
reduce barriers and encourage participation in the Census, especially those communities that were
undercounted in 1990. .
Census 2000 needs community leaders such as you to help the community understand the importance
of being counted. I respectfully ask that you read the endosed Partnership Agreement carefully and to
check each category that your City needs or, can agree to do. Please fill in the address, zip code, your
congressional district and your county. The Agreement form is not legally binding; it identifies what you
are able to do and how we can help you do it Please sign the Agreement and retum all three copies to
me. If you sent it to the Kansas Regional Census Office, please fax me a copy, as I must process it at
the local level. I must have it by March 24, A.S.A.P.
Your agreement may be used to create awareness through the media, help to reduce barriers, and
encourage participation of your City community in tI1e Census. As a partner, you ensure that this time,
your community will be completely counted I Some of the barriers faced by the community is a fear of
reprisal, prosecution, deportation, and general mistrust of govemment, another barrier for many people
is that their primary language may be different than English. Let us overcome' these barriers and make.
the Census work for us.
The sarlent reasons to be counted are reapportionment for political and voting empowerment in the
U.S.Congress, state legislatures, and local govemments. In addition, the count is the basis for
allocation of billions of federal dollars in programs and services. Your City could lose money since it is
estimated that for every person not counted it is a loss of $2,5001 Our mutual goal must be to count
everyone! Working together, we can do it! Thank you, I look forward to working with you on this very
important project
Sincerely,
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Irene Gomez-Bethke