Who sat on the Assembly?

Initial Panel Demographics

On Wednesday, August 2, 2023, Unify Montrose randomly selected the community members to serve on the 64-person assembly to help solve the serious childcare shortage in Montrose.

Thanks to outreach support from the City of Montrose, Montrose County, Montrose Recreation District, and dozens of organizations and businesses during June and July of this year, 222 Montrose County residents, from all walks of life, filled out a form expressing interest in joining the panel as a Delegate.

Using data from those forms, Unify Montrose employed a special software called Panelot to generate 1000 representative panels of 64 Delegates, where every panel roughly reflects the demographics of Montrose. The randomly-selected Panel #266 of 64 Delegates matches the demographics of Montrose County based on data from the 2020 Census within an 11% margin, and a majority of the demographic categories listed on the following page are below a 4% margin.

Unify Montrose Final Assembly

Since the initial Delegate selection, some participants were not able to make the time commitment work.

The final Unify Montrose Assembly had 46 delegates who participated for 12 weeks. Of these 46, 35 were part of the original 64 and 11 were Alternates. The overall demographics remained representative, with a majority of demographic categories falling within a 7% margin of Montrose County based on 2020 Census data (household income, race and ethnicity, political party affiliation, and geography). The others remained within a 15.5% margin (gender and age).

Age

• 18-24 years old: 0%

• 25-34 years old: 26.09%

• 35-44 years old: 19.57%

• 45-54 years old: 6.52%

• 55-64 years old: 26.09%

• 65 years old and above: 21.74%

Household Income

• Under $25k: 13.04%

• $25k-50k: 17.39%

• $50k-$75k: 19.57%

• $75-$100k: 10.87%

• Over $100k: 28.26%

• Rather not say: 10.87%

Gender

• Female: 65.22%

• Male: 34.78%

Race and Ethnicity

• White: 69.57%

• Hispanic: 19.57%

• Black: 4.34%

• Native American: 2.17%

• Another race or ethnicity: 2.17%

• I’d rather not say: 2.17%

Political Party Registration

• Unaffiliated: 41.30%

• Republican: 36.96%

• Democrat: 15.22%

• Third-Party: 4.35%

• Not registered to vote or unsure of registration: 2.17%

Geography

• Lives within the City of Montrose: 54.35%

• Lives within the County of Montrose, but not in the City boundaries: 45.65%

Additionally measured, though not included as a representative category for the Assembly, 41.30% of the Delegates have children under 18 in their household.