What is a COG and what is its role?
Council of Governments (COG) is a regional forum to allow local governments to come together to address common challenges, such as; infrastructure, community and economic development, and other general regional governmental issues. In 1997, the SCDOT began coordinating with South Carolina’s ten COGs to plan rural road improvements. Their role is very similar to the MPO, to allow a public forum for transportation decision making and analyzing the area’s long-range transportation needs. The COG’S flve-year program is approved by the SCDOT Commission and appears in the SCDOT bi-annual Statewide Transportation lmprovement Program (STIP).
