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STATEWIDE CONNECTIONS • 11 COGs serve Oklahoma’s 77 counties, 629 municipal governments and the state’s 3.5 million residents • Our COGs are governed by policy boards with majority control by local government offi cials, along with representatives of the business, educational, community and nonprofit sectors. Collectively, some 362 individuals serve on our boards and over 900 others serve in various advisory committee or task force capacities • All eleven COGs administer CDBG programs for their local governments. We also manage rural economic action plans, rural fi re defense programs, undertake state infrastructure capital improvement planning, manage wireless E 9-1-1 fund distribution, serve as census depositories and help local governments meet federal requirements for allhazards mitigation and homeland security preparedness planning • Two of our COGs are federally recognized Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs), and many of our COGs manage comprehensive GIS databases and conduct economic profi les, special needs projects and a variety of other services
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