The Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG) is soliciting proposals for community-based organizations (CBOs) to provide outreach and engagement services for education and awareness on the 2024 Blueprint, the region’s long range Metropolitan Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy. This request for proposals describes the eligibility requirements for the program, the project schedule, the proposal evaluation process, and the minimum information that must be included in the proposal.

The Sacramento Area Council of Governments serves as a joint powers authority of city and county governments in El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, Sutter, Yolo and Yuba counties. As the only public agency with members from all 28 jurisdictions in the greater Sacramento region, SACOG plays a unique role as the place where local governments can come together to take on critical issues facing the region and to tackle problems that are too big for any one jurisdiction to solve on its own. SACOG is tasked by state and federal law with long-range planning for the region but also plays an important role in working with our local partners to advance more immediate solutions to some of the region’s shared challenges of transportation, housing, air quality, climate change and the protection of the region’s agricultural and natural resources.

SACOG is required to regularly update the long-range regional plan to reflect current trends in demographics, housing, and land use patterns. The 2024 Blueprint will outline recommendations for how we grow and invest as a region for the next 20-30 years. The plan aims to connect housing to jobs, education, goods and services, and recreational opportunities while protecting and enhancing our region’s ecology, open space, and agricultural lands .

Community input will inform how the SACOG Board of Directors invests state and federal transportation dollars to shape the future of the Sacramento region. SACOG intends to use several awareness building tactics throughout the 2024 Blueprint development process to increase engagement among low-income communities, communities of color, partner agencies, stakeholders that represent a broad variety of interests throughout the region, and all other interested community members. Staff will use best practices to gain input from partners and will leverage relationships with community-based organizations to build upon these engagement activities to ensure that all interested parties can be meaningfully involved in shaping this regional plan.