December 6, 2022
Over the last 15 years, SANDAG has worked with regional tribal nations to incorporate their views and needs into SANDAG'...
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Overview:
The San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) is a large, one-county Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) that plans and programs transportation projects. SANDAG also serves as the Sales Tax Authority for TransNet, the county transportation sales tax. Additionally, SANDAG provides a number of services that are unique and noteworthy: a Data Center that develops annual demographic estimates and long range forecasts, in addition to maintaining information from the U.S. Census Bureau; a Criminal Justice Clearinghouse that analyzes and details crime data for local law enforcement agencies (including measures of police performance); an Employment and Residential Lands Inventory; and a service bureau for customized demographic and economic studies, data and analysis, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analysis and mapping, and transportation modeling. SANDAG is also the Rideshare Agency for the region, assists in the preparation of the Regional Air Quality Management Plan, and develops the Regional Hazardous Waste Management Plan.
Primary Funding Sources:
Local sales tax; federal & state funding sources, grants, tolls, other revenues.
Total Members:
Nineteen: San Diego County and eighteen incorporated cities in the county
Population Represented:
3,288,612
Staff:
320
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Board Makeup:
The Board of Directors is composed of 21 members. Each of the county’s 18 cities gets a seat on the board except for the City of San Diego, which gets two seats. The county also gets two seats. There are also nine advisory representatives that include Imperial County, the U.S. Department of Defense, Caltrans, San Diego Unified Port District, Metropolitan Transit System, North County Transit District, San Diego County Water Authority, Southern California Chairmen’s Association, and Mexico. Section 132351.2 of the Public Utilities Code (included in Article IV, Section 5 of the SANDAG Bylaws) requires that in order to act on any item there must be a majority vote of the members present on the basis of one vote per agency and a majority of a weighted vote (determined by formula prescribed in the statute) of the member agencies present.
Executive Director:
Hasan Ikhrata, CEO
CALCOG Board Representative:
Sandy Naranjo, Vice Chair, Port of San Diego
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