Multi-Municipal Planning by the Twin Rivers Council of Governments by Rosemary Bradley

Rosemary Bradley (second from right) was the Executive Director of the Twin Rivers Council of Governments(TRCOG), a voluntary organization that engaged in multi-municipal planning for a regional stormwater management and land use plan. Bradley noted that because the TRCOG has been in existence since 1977 and many of the communities had already been involved in shared services and other forms of intermunicipal cooperation, there was trust among the communities entering into the multi-municipal plan. She recommended realistic and clear goals, such as the plan’s goal to preserve older communities. Bradley explains that every community had one vote regardless of size, and that public meetings were widely publicized where dinner was provided as a thank you at some of the meetings. She wished that more meetings could be held because there were 14 communities involved, but insufficient funding was an issue. Unfortunately, one community did not accept the plan and it was not passed.