Month: August 2020
090120 Parks and Recreation Comm Meeting
Commission will be in attendance at City Hall.
Public will attend telephonically.
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https://emergencychecks.oregon.gov/
The Oregon Legislature has approved a $35 million program to provide financial relief to Oregonians who may have experienced an economic hardship due to COVID-19. Oregon is partnering with the private sector to deliver one-time, $500 emergency relief payments. You may be eligible for this payment if you:
- Are 18 years of age or older.
- Are a current resident of Oregon.
- Can prove your identity.
- Are experiencing severe financial hardship due to the Governor’s Executive orders 20-07 or 20-12 or indirectly hardship due to the orders.
- These are the ‘Stay Home, Save Lives’ orders that closed many restaurants and personal services to slow the spread of COVID-19. Many sectors – like personal transportation services – were indirectly affected by the orders and may have resulted in a loss of income.
- Earned $4,000/month or less pre-tax prior to your income loss due to COVID-19.
- Are NOT current on your unemployment payments:
- Current means you have received all payments for weeks claimed except for the current claim week. Applicants should count base payments for traditional Unemployment Insurance and the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program – not the $600 enhanced payment that ended July 31, 2020. Do not count your waiting week to determine whether or not you are current.
- You may be eligible if you never applied for or were denied unemployment.
- You may be eligible if you are not current on unemployment benefits but have since returned to work.
Providing false statements may subject you to repayment of any benefit received.
Read MoreEveryone may call in to the number listed. Please remember that everyone hears all of the background noise, so please mute your phones until it is time for Public Comment. If you know that you wish to speak, please send an email to so that we can get you listed.
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Fresh Oil will be applied to the following streets this week by Jackson County Roads –
Chandra, Riverview, Mason, Kinworthy, Sowell and Heather.
Jackson County will put up signs noticing it. The City has already placed two signs up.
This will be the last work to the rad surfacing for these streets.
Thank you for your patience while we upgrade your roads.
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This is an FYI that, in the next few weeks, Census Takers will be in your community conducting Non-Response Follow-Up, where they will knock on people’s doors who have not filled out the Census. This week begins a test-run where we will see how social distancing protocols work.
Census takers will start visiting households that haven’t responded in 34 Oregon counties beginning Thursday, July 30. The remaining two counties, Multnomah and Clackamas, will begin on August 11. This operation, called Non-Response Follow Up (NRFU), is the largest operation of the decennial census and is scheduled to conclude no later than October 31.
What Households Can Expect
- The Census Bureau will provide face masks to census takers and requires that they wear a mask while conducting their work. They will follow CDC and local public health guidelines when they visit. Census takers must complete a virtual COVID-19 training on social distancing protocols and other health and safety guidance before beginning their work in neighborhoods.
- Census takers are hired from local communities. All census takers speak English, and many are bilingual. If a census taker does not speak the householder’s language, the household may request a return visit from a census taker who does. Census takers will also have materials on hand to help identify the household’s language.
- If no one is home when the census taker visits, they will leave a notice of their visit with information about how to respond online, by phone or by mail.
- Census takers can be easily identified by a valid government ID badge with their photograph, a U.S. Department of Commerce watermark, and an expiration date on the badge. To confirm a census taker’s identity, the public may contact their regional census center to speak with a Census Bureau representative.
For more information, see the attached fact sheet.
You can help achieve a complete and accurate count of your community by encouraging residents to cooperate with census takers when they come to their door. Note that during this operation residents may still respond online, by phone or by mail if they have not yet returned their census form.
Please let me know if you have any questions, and thank you for your help in counting everyone once, only once, and in the right place!
Dr. Michelle Maher
Partnership Specialist
U.S. Census Bureau
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