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Oswego expects special census will show more than 5,000 people added since 2020 · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Oswego expects special census will show more than five thousand
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  Speaker 1: people added since twenty twenty. Written by Eric Shelkoff, This
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  Speaker 1: article is being read by an automated voice brought to
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  Speaker 1: you by Everlett. Oswego could see an estimated one point
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  Speaker 1: five million dollars in additional revenues annually from a special
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  Speaker 1: census set to take place next spring. At the June
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  Speaker 1: ninth Oswego Village Board meeting, trustees approved an agreement with
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  Speaker 1: the US Census Bureau to conduct the special census. The
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  Speaker 1: special census is estimated to cost nine hundred seventy seven thousand,
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  Speaker 1: four hundred and forty eight dollars. The estimated increase in
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  Speaker 1: annual revenue is one point five million dollars, which is
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  Speaker 1: four point five million dollars over the three years that
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  Speaker 1: will transpire until the next regular census. Oswego Finance Director
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  Speaker 1: Andrea Lamberg said in a memo. Every ten years, the
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  Speaker 1: US Census Bureau conducts a census to determine the number
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  Speaker 1: of people living in the United States. The next descentnial
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  Speaker 1: census is set for twenty thirty. The last time the
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  Speaker 1: village had a special census done was in twenty sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: The twenty twenty desennial census the US Census Bureau conducted
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  Speaker 1: showed Oswego with a population of thirty four thousand, five
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  Speaker 1: hundred and eighty five. Since that time, the village has
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  Speaker 1: seen significant growth. It has estimated the village has grown
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  Speaker 1: by five thousand, five hundred and fifty three people, a
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  Speaker 1: sixteen percent increase that would put the village's population at
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  Speaker 1: forty thousand, one hundred and thirty eight. The village started
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  Speaker 1: the process to do a special census several years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Oswego is the largest municipality in Kendall County. Due to
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  Speaker 1: federal government shut downs, the Census Office was unable to
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  Speaker 1: staff special census positions, which delayed the process. Lamberg said
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  Speaker 1: the village received word that the Census Bureau is now
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  Speaker 1: able to high special census staff and the earliest a
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  Speaker 1: special census could be conducted is the spring of twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven. Lamberg said a payment of nine hundred seventy
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  Speaker 1: seven thousand, four hundred and forty eight dollars must be
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  Speaker 1: given to the Census Bureau before any work on the
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  Speaker 1: special census is performed. That advance payment will be adjusted
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  Speaker 1: to actual costs, and additional billings or refunds will be
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  Speaker 1: made as appropriate, she said. Oswego Village President Ryan Kaufman
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  Speaker 1: had previously said the additional revenues gained from the special
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  Speaker 1: census will help pay for projects like improving the intersection
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  Speaker 1: of Wolf's Crossing in US Route thirty and bringing Lake
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  Speaker 1: Michigan water to Oswego. We've got all these big things
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  Speaker 1: that we need to get done, and we need the
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  Speaker 1: funding to do it, he said. Neighboring Plainfield recently had
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  Speaker 1: a special census done. The village now has a population
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  Speaker 1: of forty nine, nine hundred and sixty two. According to
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  Speaker 1: the results of the special census that have been certified,
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  Speaker 1: That represents an increase of five thousand, two hundred residents
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  Speaker 1: since the twenty twenty census. The village's official housing count
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  Speaker 1: now stands at seventeen thousand, three hundred and twenty nine units.
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  Speaker 1: Plainfield will receive about one point two million dollars in
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  Speaker 1: additional revenues every year until the twenty thirty decential census
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  Speaker 1: is certified.