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New 9-1-1 Training Opportunity: Breed Success in Your Training Program
Details DATE: March 11, 2016 | 8: 30 a.m. to 4: 30 p.m. INSTRUCTOR: Tony Harrison, Public Safety Group COST: ACOG Members FREE; Non-Members $199 Topics Include How do you breed failure? How to begin to breed success Increase trainee success rates Training...
ACOG Issues Air Quality Alert for September 25
Public Urged To Take Precautions The Association of Central Oklahoma Governments (ACOG) in partnership with the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (ODEQ) has issued an OZONE ALERT DAY for the Oklahoma City metropolitan region for Friday,...
Clean Air Grants Available for Public Sector Fleets
The Association of Central Oklahoma Governments (ACOG) is pleased to announce an RFP for the first round of CLEAN AIR Grants for Public Sector Fleets for FY 16. This grant funding allows Oklahoma City Area Regional Transportation Study (OCARTS) Transportation...
Central Oklahoma Clean Cities Coalition displaces 6.43 Million Gallons of Petroleum in 2014
Displacement total is the equivalent of taking 12,000 cars off the road. OKLAHOMA CITY -- -- (July 22, 2015) Central Oklahoma drivers and fleets have used more alternative fuels than ever before and its had a measurable impact on energy and environmental security....
Rural Fire 80/20 Reimbursement Grants Available
Last year, four members of the Association of Central Oklahoma Governments (ACOG) received 80/20 reimbursement grants. Cedar Lake, one of several fire districts in Canadian County, received a $1,900 grant for a pump. The Harrah Fire Department received $950 for...
First Ozone Alert of Season Issued for Wednesday, June 10
The Association of Central Oklahoma Governments (ACOG) in partnership with the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (ODEQ) has issued an OZONE ALERT DAY for the Oklahoma City metropolitan region for Wednesday, June 10. According to ODEQ, this ozone watch is a...
Clean Cities Statewide Meeting at Capitol to Highlight New Alternative Fuel Vehicle Laws
Oklahoma Labor Commissioner Mark Costello joined Rep. Leslie Osborn (R-47) and Rep. Josh Cockroft (R-27) at the Capitol on Wednesday to discuss the State’s two newest alternative fuel vehicles laws. The two bills, HB1283 and HB1728, were recently signed into law by...
Central Oklahoma Celebrates Bike To Work Day May 15
Get ready to pump your pedals, Central Oklahoma. National Bike-to-Work Day is May 15. According to Kate Brady, a transportation planner with the Association of Central Oklahoma Governments, this is the 11th year the event has been recognized in region. Five metro-area...
ACOG Releases Transportation Projects Funding Report
OKLAHOMA CITY, March 13, 2015 -- A report reflecting federally funded transportation projects in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area during federal fiscal year 2014 (Oct. 1, 2013 – Sept. 30, 2014) was recently completed by ACOG. Highway, transit, bicycle and...
ACOG Awards Grants For AFV, Fueling Projects
CMAQ Funds Awarded The Association of Central Oklahoma Governments (ACOG) Board of Directors has approved grant funding awards for public-sector fleet alternative fuel vehicle deployment and fueling infrastructure projects. Awarded applicants include: City of Norman,...
AAA Oklahoma, Oklahoma Turnpike Authority receive 2014 Zach D. Taylor, Jr. Alternative Fuel Vision Awards
The Zach D. Taylor, Jr. Clean Cities Vision Awards honor Central Oklahoma Clean Cities Coalition stakeholders’ outstanding accomplishments and leadership displayed in promoting and deploying alternative fuels and advanced technology vehicles. The awards are named in...
CentralOK!go Commuter Corridors Study Receives MPO Approval
On October 30, 2014, the Locally Preferred Alternatives (LPAs), developed as part of the Central Oklahoma Commuter Corridors Study, were approved by the ACOG Intermodal Transportation Policy Committee (ITPC). The approval of the LPAs marked the completion of an...
Central Oklahoma Snow Routes for Winter 2014-2015
ACOG recently completed updating the 2014 – 2015 Regional Snow Routes map to provide a useful tool for navigating Central Oklahoma roadways when they are covered in snow. First developed in 2007, the Regional Snow Routes system assists in the coordination of ice and...
Join ACOG for a November 18 Public Meeting at OKC’s Santa Fe Station
On Tuesday, November 18 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., everyone is invited to the historic Santa Fe Station (100 South E.K. Gaylord Boulevard) in downtown Oklahoma City to talk about the future of transportation in Central Oklahoma. The Association of Central Oklahoma...
ODOT, OKC Public Hearing on Proposed Boulevard November 13
The Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) and the City of Oklahoma City are co-hosting a public hearing regarding the proposed Crosstown Boulevard on Thursday, November 13, at the Chevy Bricktown Events Center at 429 East California Avenue from 5 p.m. to 7:30...
Evolving Land Use in Central Oklahoma
The Association of Central Oklahoma Governments has recently completed its latest inventory of land use in the Oklahoma City Area Regional Transportation Study (OCARTS) area. Collected every five years as part of the agency’s comprehensive planning efforts, this GIS...
Take the Central Oklahoma Transportation & Growth Survey
How should Central Oklahoma grow? How would you invest in our regional transportation system? How would you pay for those investments? As input to Central Oklahoma’s upcoming Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP), Encompass 2040, ACOG invites Central Oklahomans to...