Missouri Association of Councils of Government

A number of RPC Executive Directors attended this years National Association of Development Organizations (NADO) Annual Training Conference in Portland, Oregon including (from left to right in the above photo): Gerritt Brinks, Harry S. Truman Coordinating Council;...

Speaking at the MU Extension Workforce Development Summit in Ashland, Missouri, Governor Michael Parson highlighted the new Ranken Technical College campus coming to mid-Missouri as a model workforce development initiative and pointed to the community led effort to...

Norman Lucas, Executive Director of the Pioneer Trails Regional Planning Commission (pictured above left), along with several other RPC Executive Directors attended the 2021 Fall Conference of the Missouri Economic Development Council (MEDC) in Columbia, Missouri....

At the request of Committee Chair Representative Louis Riggs, Doug Hermes, MACOG Planning Coordinator, and Bonnie Prigge, MACOG Immediate Past President and Meramec RPC – Executive Director, formally submitted MACOG testimony to the Special Interim Committee on...

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $613,750 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Missouri Association of Councils of Government (MACOG), Jefferson City, Missouri, to develop broadband feasibility plans and...

The Missouri Association of Councils of Government (MACOG) has received a 2021 Aliceann Wohlbruck NADO Impact Award from the National Association of Development Organizations (NADO) for the Organizing Your Community for Disaster Recovery Tool-Kit. 

Lake of the Ozarks Council of Local Governments, Chairman Tom Wright introduced the newly hired Executive Director, Brian Yansen. Mr. Yansen was selected after an extensive search and selection process in which the board of directors unanimously decided to hire Brian...

Clinton, MO - Kaysinger Basin Regional Planning Commission unveiled a new brand for the organization that better represents a sense of place and innovation. “It was definitely time to update our logo and revisit our brand story,” said Sheridan Garman-Neeman, executive...

After announcing her retirement from Lake of the Ozarks Council of Local Governments at the May MACOG Board meeting, Linda Conner officially stepped down as MACOG President at the June MACOG Board meeting. Then Vice-President Cindy Hultz, Mark Twain Regional Council...

Randy Railsback, immediate past Executive Director of the Green Hills Regional Planning Commission (GHRPC), was sworn in on January 8, 2021 as a State Representative representing Caldwell, Ray, Clay and Clinton Counties (District 8). He was elected to his first...