MARYLAND MEMBERS
Donald A. Halligan, Governor's appointee; Tari Moore, County Executive, Cecil County; Joseph L. Fisona, Mayor of Elkton.
DELAWARE MEMBERS
Connie C. Holland, Governor's appointee; Drew Boyce, designee of Delaware Secretary of Transportation; John Sisson, Executive Director, Delaware Transit Corp.; Anton Sekowski, designee of County Executive, New Castle County; Vance A. Funk III, Mayor of Newark; Cleon L. Cauley, designee of Mayor of Wilmington.
Tigist Zegeye, Executive Director
850 Library Ave., Suite 100, Newark, DE 19717
(302) 737-6205, ext. 114; fax: (302) 737-9584
e-mail: wilmapco@wilmapco.org
web: www.wilmapco.org
The Wilmington Area Planning Council is the designated metropolitan planning organization for the region that includes Cecil County, Maryland, and New Castle County, Delaware.
A Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) is a federally mandated and federally funded transportation policy-making organization that is made up of representatives from local government and governmental transportation authorities. Federal law requires the formation of such an organization for any urbanized area with a population of more than 50,000. Federal funding for transportation projects and programs is channeled through this planning process. Congress created these organizations in order to ensure that expenditures of governmental funds for transportation are based on a continuing, cooperative and comprehensive planning process. For each of their respective regions, MPOs are charged with developing a 20-year Long-Range Transportation Plan and a short-term (usually 2 to 6 years) program called the Transportation Improvement Program.
The Council originated as a regional planning agency in 1969. Since 1993, it coordinates only transportation plans of local county and municipal governments within the region.
TECHNICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Catherine Smith, Chair
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