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Connecticut Metropolitan Council of Governments (MetroCOG) Greater Bridgeport and Valley MPO: Bridgeport: Matthew Fulda 327,651: 140.2 sq mi (363 km 2) Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region: 130: Lower Connecticut River Valley Council of Governments (RiverCOG) (Same) Middletown: Samuel S. Gold 176,215: 424.1 sq mi (1,098 km 2)
The eight planning regions of Connecticut. Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut; Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut; Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Connecticut; Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Connecticut; Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut; Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut
Local councils of the Boy Scouts of America The Ideal Scout, a statue by R. Tait McKenzie in front of the Bruce S. Marks Scout Resource Center, the former headquarters of the Cradle of Liberty Council in Philadelphia Scouting portal The program of the Boy Scouts of America is administered through 248 local councils, with each council covering a geographic area that may vary from a single city ...
Although Connecticut is divided into counties, there are no county-level governments, and local government in Connecticut exists solely at the municipal level. [2] Almost all functions of county government were abolished in Connecticut in 1960, [3] except for elected county sheriffs and their departments under them. Those offices and their ...
As of 2015, the State of Connecticut recognized COGs as county equivalents, allowing them to apply for funding and grants made available to county governments in other states. In 2019 the state recommended to the United States Census Bureau that the nine Councils of Governments replace counties for statistical purposes. [ 2 ]
Council-manager, Mayor-council, Representative town meeting, Town meeting The U.S. state of Connecticut is divided into 169 municipalities , including 19 cities, 149 towns and one borough, which are grouped into eight historical counties , as well as nine planning regions which serve as county equivalents .
This 340-acre (1.4 km 2) camp was located in Bozrah, Connecticut and was established in 1947 by the Middlesex County Council of the Boy Scouts of America. It was the chief summer camp for Boy Scouts from this small council from 1947 until a merger of five councils in 1972.
Connecticut councils of governments (beginning in 2024): County governments were abolished in Connecticut in 1960. Regional councils of governments (COGs) have since been developed as a means of cooperation and coordination between municipalities.