K-6 - Memorandum of Agreement for Special Census - 2025

any other way interfere with such employees in the performance of their responsibilities. ii) The Governmental Unit shall update maps of the proposed special census area in accordance with instructions provided by the Census Bureau. The Governmental Unit shall provide any certification of legal boundaries within the proposed special census area as required by the Census Bureau. Once the Governmental Unit boundaries have been certified by the Census Bureau, these boundaries will become the official boundaries for the special census. Additionally, any annexations after the Governmental Unit has certified its boundaries will not be included in the special census. The special census will not be scheduled until these obligations have been completed to the satisfaction of the Census Bureau. iii) The Census Bureau shall provide to the Governmental Unit the official population and housing unit count derived from the special census at the earliest practicable date after completion of the enumeration and the processing required to produce the statistical results, including but not limited to disclosure avoidance review (see Section 6). This count, which shall be as of the special census reference date (tentatively scheduled for June 1, 2025), will be provided in writing and signed by an appropriate Census Bureau official. iv) The Census Bureau will not guarantee delivery of the final count by any specified date and shall not be held responsible for any loss or damages suffered by the Governmental Unit due to the data not being available by a specific date. b) The Governmental Unit accepts that responses to a special census, unlike a decennial census, are voluntary and some respondents may choose to not answer some questions. When this happens, the Census Bureau will make every effort to collect as much information as possible. If the Census Bureau cannot obtain information directly from respondents, the Census Bureau will follow statistical procedures to assign the missing information based on information provided by people in the housing unit or from people from neighboring housing units. The Governmental Unit also accepts that, to complete the count of the group quarters population, it may be necessary for the Census Bureau to obtain information for people residing in certain institutions (such as correctional facilities with security issues) from administrative records rather than from the respondents themselves. The Census Bureau will provide detailed statistical results to the Governmental Unit subject to limitations imposed by Title 13 United States Code to protect the confidentiality of respondents. Further, the Governmental Units accepts that Domestic Violence Shelters are out of scope for the special census and will not be included in any special census enumeration. c) The Census Bureau can only use the special census counts in the intercensal population estimates program if: