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Dept/ Agency: Administration
Action: (X) Ratifying (X) Authorizing ( ) Amending
Type of Service: Apply and Acceptance of Grant Funds
Purpose: To heighten awareness about the Census and inform the public that completing the forms are quick, easy, and safe.
Entity Name: Office of the County Executive
Entity Address: Hall of Records, Room 405, Newark, New Jersey 07102
Grant Amount: $91,000.00
Funding Source: Essex County Census Sub-grant
Total Project Cost: $0.00
City Contribution: $0.00
Other Funding Source/Amount: $0.00
Contract Period:
Contract Basis: ( ) Bid ( ) State Vendor ( ) Prof. Ser. ( ) EUS
( ) Fair & Open ( ) No Reportable Contributions ( ) RFP ( ) RFQ
( ) Private Sale (X) Grant ( ) Sub-recipient ( ) N/A
Additional Information:
A one-time disbursement.
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WHEREAS, the City of Newark (the "City") seeks to use multiple techniques that increase the citizens self-response rate from the Census in 2010; and
WHEREAS, the County of Essex, solicited proposals for the Census Sub-grant, which encourages cities to heighten awareness about the Census and inform the public that completing the forms are quick, easy, and safe; and
WHEREAS, on February 13, 2020, on behalf of the City of Newark, the Department of Administration (the "City"), submitted an application to the County of Essex, requesting funding in the amount of One Hundred Seventy Thousand Dollars and Zero Cents ($170,000.00) for the Essex County Census Sub-grant, to address specifically hard to count populations and strategize on tactics to secure a complete count; and
WHEREAS, as a result of this application, on February 28, 2020, the City was awarded a grant, in the amount of Ninety-One Thousand Dollars and Zero Cents ($91,000.00) from the County of Essex, to heighten awareness about the Census and inform the public that completing the forms a...
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