Northeastern Connecticut Council of Governments

NECCOG is updating its Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) as part of the overall COVID-19 recovery effort in coordination with the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development and the U.S. Economic Development Administration. Click on the above text or image to be redirected to the CEDS Hubsite where you can find links to various tools and resources as well as the document. Public Comments will be accepted through October 31, 2024.

The Northeastern CT Council of Governments (NECCOG) has partnered with the Central Massachusetts Regional Planning Commission (CMRPC) acting as the lead agency, and the Montachusett Regional Planning Commission (MRPC) in developing a Comprehensive Action Plan to reduce climate pollution in the Worcester Metropolitan-MA and Northeast-CT Region with a Climate Pollution Reduction Grant (CPRG) from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

What is the Climate Pollution Reduction Grant – Comprehensive Climate Action Plan?

The Climate Pollution Reduction Grant (CPRG) is a US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) program funded through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The program aims to develop regional short- and long-term climate plans with a goal to address climate change and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions within the Worcester, MA-CT Metropolitan Area. CPRG is a 4-year planning grant to develop a Priority Climate Action Plan (PCAP), Comprehensive Climate Action Plan (CCAP)

CMRPC is seeking public feedback from interested stakeholders to guide the process and inform the CCAP.  Your ideas and input will ensure the development of an inclusive and representative plan that consists of necessary, meaningful, and fully implementable actions to reduce climate pollution in the Region. You can join us in this effort and help inform the plan by participating in the survey below

Survey Link

NECCOG

Northeastern Connecticut Council of Governments (NECCOG), a state leader in the innovation, development, advocation and application of regionalism, is a 16-town regional council of governments founded in 1987. NECCOG is a chief-elected official driven — organized forum for the member towns to discuss, facilitate and develop responses to issues of mutual concern. NECCOG’s member towns are Ashford, Brooklyn, Canterbury, Chaplin, Eastford, Hampton, Killingly, Plainfield, Pomfret, Putnam, Scotland, Sterling, Thompson, Union, Voluntown andWoodstock. Each municipality is represented by their respective chief-elected official. NECCOG is statutorily authorized, but has no regulatory power.
NECCOG is focused on achieving results for our member towns through regionalism — offering a range of voluntary – member initiated programs and services — depending on the collective and/or individual needs of our member towns. These programs include: transportation planning and project assistance; engineering; land use planning and regulation development; economic development; administrative assistance; animal services; transit administration; property revaluation; emergency preparedness; geographic information services and paramedic intercept services. Our regional approach to problem solving enables our member towns to achieve efficiencies and economies of scale that individually would be difficult to realize. NECCOG’s staff, acting as an extension of each member town, has a wide range of expertise and experience to address and assist our member towns with their collective and individual needs.  
A regional council of governments may accept or participate in any grant, donation or program available to any political subdivision of the state and may also accept or participate in any grant, donation or program made available to counties by any other governmental or private entity.

Notwithstanding the provisions of any special or public act, any political subdivision of the state may enter into an agreement with a regional council of governments to perform jointly or to provide, alone or in cooperation with any other entity, any service, activity or undertaking that the political subdivision is authorized by law to perform.

A regional council of governments...may administer and provide regional services to municipalities and may delegate such authority to subregional groups of such municipalities.

Regional services provided to member municipalities shall be determined by each regional council of governments...and may include, without limitation, the following services:

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