Census

Well, I have to breakdown and complete the BAS now that the budget is done. The Boundary and Annexation Survey is an annual survey of all incorporated places and all counties conducted by the Census Bureau to determine the correct legal limits and related information as of January 1 of the survey year. I haven't seen a BAS since I arrived in Lake Mills. The Census provides a 45 page book on how to make changes to the map. This is why everyone else passed on the opportunity to update the maps and it fell to me. Now I love working with maps, but there are all these little details to TIGER that make reading and understanding mapping issues important when using your red and purple pencil.
Once the map is done – the forms come. I did this once ten years ago in Mahomet – I don’t remember a thing.