SCAG committees provide opportunities for involvement in regional programs. A number of subcommittees, task forces, and working groups report to the standing committees responsible for policy direction and review, while others are established on an ad hoc basis to assist with specific projects.
- Regional Council
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As SCAG's 76 member governing board, the Regional Council conducts the affairs of SCAG; implements the General Assembly's policy decisions; acts upon policy recommendations from SCAG policy committees and external agencies; appoints committees to study specific problems and programs; and amends, decreases or increases the proposed budget to be reported to the General Assembly.
Staff contact:
Shelia Stewart
(213) 236-1868
Email: stewart@scag.ca.gov - Administration Committee
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The Administration Committee is responsible for developing policy recommendations to the Regional Council on administration, human resources, budgets, finance, operations, communications, or any other matter specifically referred to the Committee by the Regional Council.
Staff contact:
Carmen Summers
(213) 236-1984
Email: summers@scag.ca.gov - Executive Committee
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The Executive Committee is responsible for developing policy recommendations to the Regional Council on administration, human resources, budgets, finance, operations, communications, or any other matter specifically referred to the Committee by the Regional Council.
Staff contact:
Shelia Stewart
(213) 236-1868
Email: stewart@scag.ca.gov - Community, Economic and Human Development (CEHD)
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The role of the Community, Economic and Human Development Committee is to study problems, programs and other matters which pertain to the regional issues of community, economic and human development and growth. This committee reviews projects, plans and programs of regional significance for consistency and conformity with applicable regional plans.
The CEHD Committee has oversight of the Growth Visioning and Growth Forecasting processes, as well as the Regional Housing Needs Assessment, the Intergovernmental Review effort and the monitoring and analysis of the Regional Economy.
Staff contact:
Mark Butala
(213) 236-1945
Email: butala@scag.ca.gov - Energy and Environment Committee (EEC)
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The Energy & Environment Committee considers environmental and energy issues of regional significance, including but not limited to air quality, water quality, solid and hazardous waste, habitat preservation, environmental justice, and environmental impact analysis.
Staff contact:
Sylvia Patsaouras
(213) 236-1806
Email: patsaour@scag.ca.gov - Transportation and Communications Committee (TCC)
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The role of the Transportation and Communications Committee is to study problems, programs and other matters which pertain to the regional issues of mobility, air quality, transportation control measures and communications, and make recommendations on such matters to the Regional Council.
Major programs that are under the purview of TCC are Regional Transportation Plan (RTP), Regional Transportation Improvement Program (RTIP), Aviation, Highway, Transportation Finance and Transportation Conformity.
Staff contact:
Naresh Amatya
(213) 236-1885
Email: amatya@scag.ca.gov
Committees
- Audit and Best Practice
- Bylaws and Resolutions
- Communications and Membership
- Compass Partnership
- District Evaluations
- Nominating & Council Development Committee
- Personnel Subcommittee
- Plans & Programs Technical Advisory Committee
Subcommittees
- Aviation Task Force
- Benchmarks Task Force
- Data Task Force
- Finance Task Force
- Goods Movement Task Force
- Maglev Task Force
- Modeling Task Force
- Regional Comprehensive Plan Task Force
- Solid Waste Task Force
- Southwest Alliance Task Force
- Strategic Plan Implementation Task Force
- Tribal Government Relations Task Force
- Water Policy Task Force
Task Forces
- Open Space Working Group
- Energy Working Group
- Subregional Coordinators Group
- Transportation Conformity Working Group
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The Transportation Conformity Working (TCWG) is a forum to support interagency coordination to help improve air quality and maintain transportation conformity in Southern California.
Staff contact:
Jonathan Nadler
(213) 236-1884
Email: nadler@scag.ca.gov