For the first time in approximately 20 years, the funding formula that determines what each city pays for police services provided by the Centennial Lakes Police Department (CLPD) will change.
The census heroes saved you a seat, Minnesota.
The 2020 census was about to decide whether there were enough Minnesotans to justify eight seats in Congress. The odds were against us. The population maps were against us.
Somebody needed to do something. So almost everyone did.
Millions of Minnesotans took five minutes out of the pandemic to be counted. The last 26 of them or the first 26 of them, or you and 25 of your friends saved the Eighth Congressional District.
The state that never takes the last bite of anything snagged the last available seat in the U.S. House. Because the margin turned out to be so close, it really feels like everyone who worked on this did their part to get us just over the finish line, said Minnesota s delighted state demographer, Susan Brower, who will use all this new census data to start figuring out who we are, where we are and what we will need over the next decade. I ve been getting so many just elated e-mails from everyone who worked so ha
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XP Lee hadn t thought much about the census before attending a 2018 meeting on the nationwide population count for his job with the city of Brooklyn Park.
But he sat up when state officials said Minnesota came within 15,000 people of losing one of its eight seats in Congress a decade ago and things were looking even tighter now.
He figured there were thousands of people undercounted in his own Hmong community. I realized you only get this one opportunity every 10 years, said Lee, who decided to leave his job with the city to work on statewide census efforts.