Organizations Filed Purposes:
The Maricopa Association of Governments (MAG) is a Council of Governments (COG) that serves as the regional planning agency for the metropolitan Phoenix area. MAG is the regional air quality planning agency and Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for transportation for Maricopa County. MAG provides regional planning and policy decisions in areas of transportation, air quality, water quality, economic development, and human services.
Transportation Planning - the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) jointly issued Planning Emphasis Areas (PEAs) in March 2015. the PEAs include: (1) FAST Act Implementation: Transition to Performance-Based planning and programming, (2) Regional Models of Planning Cooperation: promote cooperation and coordination across MPO boundaries and across state boundries where appropriate to ensure a regional approach to transportation planning, and (3) Ladders of Opportunity: Access to essential services, MAG planning efforts are incorporated into the multimodal Regional Transportation Plan (RTP). During the fiscal year 2020, Transportation Planning accomplishments include: (1) Preparing updates and amendments to the Transportation Improvement Plan (TIP) and the Regional Transportation Plan (RTP); (2) Continued development of MAG's first regional Active Transportation Plan; (3) Coordinated with the Arizona Department of Transportation, Valley Metro, and MAG members on environmental/design concept studies, construction program funding, cash flow management, and long-range modal planning; (4) Provided transportation planning support to MAG member agencies for programs such as bicycle and pedestrian design assistance, safety programs, traffic signal optimization, regional ITS architecture and traffic forecasting.
Environmental Planning - The Environmental Planning Division planning areas include the areas of Sold Waste Management, Water Quality Planning, and Air Quality Planning. The MAG Regional Solid Waste Management Plan is designed to provide for systems-level regional solid waste management planning and to prevent adverse public health and environmental effects resulting from improper solid waste collection, processing, or disposal. MAG is the designated Regional Water Quality Management Planning Program for the Maricopa County Area. This designation was made by Governor Jack Williams in 1974 in accordance with Section 208 of the Clean Water Act. The initial MAG 208 Water Quality Management Plan was prepared in 1979 with revisions in 1982, 1993, 2002, and 2014. The plan serves as the key guiding document for the Regional Water Quality Management Planning Program. MAG was designated as the Regional Air Quality Planning Agency for Maricopa County area by Governor Wesley Bolin in 1978. MAG is responsible for developing air quality plan revisions in accordance with the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments. MAG also conducts conformity analysis on the Transportation Improvement Program and the MAG REgional Transporation Plan. MAG pursues a number of other continuing activities in air quality including tracking the air quality inventory data, analyzing air quality control strategies to reduce emissions, reviewing in implementation status of ongoing measures, and reviewing legislation, regulations, and technical guidelines
Regional Analytics- The primary responsibility of the Regional Analytics Program is to develop socioeconomic estimates and projections for use by MAG and member agency planning and modeling activities. In accordance with Executive Order 2011-04, the Arizona Department of Economic Security (ADES) approves resident population totals for each county, while MAG develops subregional estimates and projections based upon the Maricopa County resident population control totals. Midyear estimates of resident population by municipal boundaries are produced annually. Municipal Resident Population Esitmates are used to determine municipak expenditure limits and billions of dollars a year in state-shared revenue and are produced every five years. Projections of population, housing units, and employment are developed using the latest decennial or special census as the base. These projections are developed at three levels of subregional geography: Municipal Planning Area (MPA), Regional Analysis Zone (RAZ), and Traffic Analysis Zone (TAZ). The projections are used for a wide variety of other regional planning programs. In particular, these projections and the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) coverage and data that are used as input to these projections, facilitate the review and analysis of issues and provide consistent credible information for MAG and MAG member agencies.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Eric Anderson | MAG Executive Director and Secretary | 40 | $239,617 |
| Linda M Bauer | Environmental Planning Director | 40 | $202,258 |
| Amy St Peter | Deputy Executive Director | 40 | $179,766 |
| Vladimir Livshits | Transportation Director | 40 | $177,762 |
| Anubhav Bagley | Regional Analytics Director | 40 | $166,880 |
| Robert Hazlett | Senior Engineer Project Manager | 40 | $162,352 |
| Audrey F Skidmore | Information Technology Director | 40 | $151,487 |
| Anna Tovar | MAG At-Large Member;Mayor, Tolleson | 2 | $0 |
| Kate Gallego | MAG At Large Member; Mayor, City of Phoenix | 2 | $0 |
| Kenneth Weise | Treasurer; Mayor, City of Avondale | 2 | $0 |
| Jerry Weiers | Chair; Mayor, City of Glendale | 2 | $0 |
| John Giles | Vice Chair; Mayor, City of Mesa | 2 | $0 |
| Les Peterson | At-Large Member, Mayor, City of Carefree | 2 | $0 |
| Kevin Hartke | MAG At-Large Member; Mayor, City of Chandler | 2 | $0 |
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