Walker Co. government's Joe Legge stresses the importance in participating in the 2020 Census

Walker Co.

Government's Joe Legge stresses the importance in participating in the 2020 Census

Come back and check your mailbo lately.

You no doubt seen the envelope from uncle sam.

It is time for the 2020 census talking about how important that census is in every sense of the word different jolie gi from walker county jolie gi good morning good morning to me.

I guess her body tell us exactly the importance of the census for small to me like this, a two- part question for those of you not know what is the census and why is it so important part of the question first, it is actually a constitutionally mandated out everybody where in these united states.

We've been doing this since 1790.

We do it every 10 years.

It's nothing new.

It is something that that really just has to be done in order for us to know how federal government is no out distributes federal funds.

They use the dat that's compiled insist to distribute flight $675 billion every single year through about 316 different cerebral well that's a lot of money covering lot of people tell you what, response walker county in particular had back when we did the census.

So in 2010.

The self reporting say is walker county post bodies 26% result is for so for your door not personal route.

I counted manually on the 24% of the population was not counted, which means thousands of residents were not counted, which also means millions of dollars did not flow into our community because those folks were not.

I met some new results that already come back from the u.s. census arrow since for now and that some motivation phase and try to get people to fill out the census online right now in georgia about 26% of the population has already ordered and and walker county is modeling that going with 20 going with 26 point one person left self-reported.

We do have some communities away at like lafayette over 32% of the population is order, but there's others that need a little bit o encouragement to go ahead and fill out the census do it online.

He did not and this should certainly help him approximately 2300 bucks a person for each individual in the community.

It's a lot of money to show a little more light on where the general dollars go you most want to alleviate any potential confusion.

This is my butt county government that we spin this is my flow into the community through through federal programs. if you talk about education goes to things like school meal programs, hydr one after school care programs. i'm also for student loans.

If you're in college.

If you look at healthcare.

This is a right now george as a whole gets 16 $16 billion or a lot of the other healthcare programs. the state runs like medicaid care care also ship and snapped and went to those programs are funded through the census.

It also helps with things like public works law enforcement.

It also goes for community building and in housing and housing reha will it's it's a huge gamut of things that the census uses data to distribute those funds.

The federal government distributions.

If we have an undercount that means the entir community will be impacted over the course of a decade.

So essentially if folks don't step up to the plate and do this the are shortchanging their friends their neighbors and the community and the county as a whole.

I know a lot of vets that those of you in walker county had planned to talk abou the census and get the better and bigger turnout because the cold 19 situation have been put on hold.

Can you tell us what you are going to be able to do to further this issue ... darrell ate we had to cancel a lot of programs that we had to put safety first.

We were doing a half into the census egg on so that that's no longer happening.

So were having lots of alternative ways to really the message out to the communit about the subject's a lot of things that moved online now.

W got a basis of walker county i'm online poster campaign that shows some of the different folks in the community and takes a topic like healthcare or education or community building or housing and tries to break it down and show you why that's a.

Also, we partnered with the walker county school system and several students essays for us for over 19 put them out of school and will be rolling those out online this week as well.

Joe sounds good.

We will have you back here hope we can person over the coming weeks and talk little bit more of doubt that if you want to find out and it is your civic responsibility do this show mentioned earlier, it is federally mandated to walker county, ga.gov again walker county, ga.gov/census jolie gi thanks for joining us.

My friend is as well.

We have run we will see you back here tomorrow morning