East-West Gateway's 2010 Public Officials Directory
East-West Gateway's 2010 Public Officials Directory
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EWGCOG <strong>2010</strong> <strong>Public</strong> <strong>Officials</strong> <strong>Directory</strong><br />
The Region<br />
The Region<br />
As the thickness of this <strong>Public</strong> <strong>Officials</strong> <strong>Directory</strong><br />
suggests, local government is big in the St.<br />
Louis area. Spanning parts of the states of<br />
Missouri and Illinois, St. Louis is the 18 th largest<br />
of the nation’s 361 metropolitan statistical areas<br />
(MSAs). Nearly one of every 100 Americans<br />
lives in the St. Louis MSA. 1 We produce more<br />
than $102 billion of the<br />
nation’s $11.75 trillion in<br />
annual Gross Domestic<br />
Product. 2 Clearly, what<br />
happens in St. Louis is<br />
important not only to the<br />
people and the<br />
businesses residing<br />
here, but to the nation as<br />
a whole.<br />
The U.S. Census Bureau<br />
reports that there were<br />
868 units of local<br />
government in the<br />
sixteen-county St. Louis<br />
Metropolitan Statistical<br />
Area in 2002. <strong>East</strong>-<strong>West</strong><br />
<strong>Gateway's</strong> strategic<br />
assessment, Where We<br />
Stand, finds St. Louis second only to Pittsburgh among<br />
35 peer metros in the number of local governments per<br />
capita. 3 Figures 1 and 2 illustrate this point. 4 At the heart<br />
of the 16-county St. Louis metropolitan area is the<br />
Gateway Region, comprised of the eight counties served<br />
by the <strong>East</strong>-<strong>West</strong> Gateway Council of Governments.<br />
These include the City of St. Louis; Franklin, Jefferson,<br />
1<br />
The federal Office of Management and Budget defines the boundaries of Metropolitan Statistical<br />
Areas every ten years in the year ending in 3. In June 2003, the St. Louis MSA was defined as a<br />
16-county area with a population of almost 2.77 million people (based on 2005 Census counts).<br />
The population of the United States in 2000 was 295 million.<br />
2<br />
Global Insight. The Role of Metro Areas in the U.S. Economy. Prepared for the U.S.<br />
Conference of Mayors. January 2006.<br />
3<br />
Peer regions are those that have a population of 950,000 or more and are within 500 miles of<br />
St. Louis, or that have an economic function similar to St. Louis. See Where We Stand: The<br />
Strategic Assessment of the St. Louis Region. 5 th edition, 2006.<br />
4<br />
These charts are based on data from the Census of Governments, which is conducted by the<br />
U.S. Census Bureau every five years, in the years ending in 2 and 7.
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