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Oswego to conduct special census next spring that could bring in more revenue · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Oswego to conduct special census next spring that could bring
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  Speaker 1: in more revenue. Written by Eric Shelkoff, This article is
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  Speaker 1: Oswego could see an estimated one point five million dollars
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  Speaker 1: in additional revenues annually from a special census set to
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  Speaker 1: take place next spring. The village started the process to
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  Speaker 1: do a special census several years ago. Oswego is the
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  Speaker 1: largest municipality in Kendall County. Due to federal government shutdowns,
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  Speaker 1: the Census Office was unable to staff special census positions,
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  Speaker 1: which delayed the process. Oswego Finance Director Andrea Lamberg said
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  Speaker 1: in a memo the village received word that the Census
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  Speaker 1: Bureau is now able to hire special census staff and
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  Speaker 1: the earliest special census could be conducted is the spring
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  Speaker 1: of twenty twenty seven. At Tuesday's Oswego Village Board meeting,
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  Speaker 1: trustees are set to approve an agreement with the US
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  Speaker 1: Census Bureau to conduct the special census. The special census
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  Speaker 1: is estimated to cost nine hundred seventy seven thousand, four
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  Speaker 1: hundred and forty eight dollars. The last time the village
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  Speaker 1: had a special census done was in twenty sixteen. The
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty decential census the US Census Bureau conducted showed
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  Speaker 1: Oswego with a population of thirty four thousand, five hundred
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  Speaker 1: and eighty five. Since that time, the village has seen
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  Speaker 1: significant growth. It is estimated the village has grown by
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  Speaker 1: five thousand, five hundred and fifty three people, a sixteen
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  Speaker 1: percent increase that would put the village's population at forty thousand,
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty eight. Lamberg said a payment of
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  Speaker 1: nine hundred seventy seven thousand, four hundred and forty eight
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  Speaker 1: dollars must be given to the Census Bureau before any
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  Speaker 1: work on the special census is performed. That advanced payment
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  Speaker 1: will be adjusted to actual costs, and additional billings or
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  Speaker 1: refunds will be made as appropriate, she said. Oswego Village
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  Speaker 1: President Ryan Kaufman had previously said the additional revenues gained
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  Speaker 1: from the special census will help pay for projects like
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  Speaker 1: improving the intersection of Wolf's Crossing and Route thirty and
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  Speaker 1: bringing Lake Michigan water to Oswego. We've got all these
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  Speaker 1: big things that we need to get done and we
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  Speaker 1: need the funding to do it, he said.