1 RESOLUTION NO. 23-29,420
A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BURBANK SUPPORTING THE INCLUSION OF AN ARMENIAN
CHECKBOX IN THE 2030 CENSUS
THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BURBANK FINDS:
A. The City of Burbank is home to a large community of Armenian Americans in the United States, and meaningful and comprehensive data on its Armenian population is currently lacking; and
B. The federal Office of Management and Budget recently released a new draft questionnaire for the 2030 Census that includes a new Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) Category with subcategories such as Lebanese, Syrian, Iranian, and other populations; and
C. Armenians constitute a transnational group across MENA and are historically one of the largest and most impacted groups of immigrants in the United States from the MENA region; and
D. Armenian Americans, together with other MENA immigrant and refugee communities within the U.S., continue to be under -resourced and underserved; and
E. Armenian-Americans overwhelmingly support census classification for their community and have been pushing for the inclusion of an Armenian Checkbox in the U.S. Census questionnaire for many decades; and
F. The inclusion of the MENA category and a specific Armenian checkbox within the MENA category of the 2030 Census would provide the City of Burbank with more accurate data on all its residents, which would ultimately bring more resources and funding for the City to address issues related to housing, healthcare, business, education, and voting rights.
THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BURBANK RESOLVES:
23-29,420
2 1. The City Council fully supports the inclusion of a specific Armenian checkbox within the MENA category of the 2030 Census and urges the United States Office of Management and Budget to adopt this recommendation.
PASSED and ADOPTED this 25th day of April 2023.
_s/Konstantine Anthony________
Konstantine Anthony
Mayor
Approved as to Form:
Attest: Office of the City Attorney
_s/Kimberley Clark___________ By: _s/Joseph H. McDougall_____ Kimberley Clark, City Clerk Joseph H. McDougall City Attorney
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss.
CITY OF BURBANK )
I, Kimberley Clark, City Clerk of the City of Burbank, do hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly passed and adopted by a vote of the Council of the City of Burbank at its regular meeting held on the 25th day of April 2023, by the following vote:
AYES: Mullins, Perez, Takahashi, Schultz, and Anthony.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
_s/Kimberley Clark___________
Kimberley Clark, City Clerk