Floridians;

With the 2010 Census underway, I am writing to inform you that the Florida
House of Representatives has launched www.myfloridacensus.gov to make sure
that every Floridian gets counted, and we need your help! Each Floridian
not counted means between $900 and $3,000 dollars a year in missed Federal
funds. These lost funds will have to be made-up by local taxes or less
services.

MyFloridaCensus is a simple online tool that allows anyone in Florida to
tell us whether or not they have been counted in the 2010 Census.  With
that information in hand, the Florida House of Representatives is able to
work with other census partners to help analyze (and thereby minimize)
which streets, neighborhoods and communities may go missed in the 2010
Census.

Here are the ways you can help:

1.Please go to www.myfloridacensus.gov  and put in your address then click
on the button to tell if you have been counted by the census or not. This
will put a point on the map to show where people have and have not been
reached by the census.

2.Post our www.myfloridacensus.gov link on your website or social network
site.  Here are links to some graphics you can utilize in case you wanted
to post a button or banner on the website.

http://censusvalidator.blob.core.windows.net/resources/mfcbutton.png

http://censusvalidator.blob.core.windows.net/resources/mfcbutton2.png

http://censusvalidator.blob.core.windows.net/resources/mfcbutton3.jpg

3.Go to our MyFloridaCensus Facebook page and become a friend and then ask
your friends to join as well.


If you would like to see a video of how the program works you can go to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeTkMEQuq5g or you can read the help file at
http://www.myfloridacensus.gov/h_Instructions.htm

Please accept our appreciation for telling us if you have been counted by
the census or not. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free
to contact me at [log in to unmask]

Sincerely,

Bob West, Director
Office of Reapportionment
Florida House of Representatives