Our Mission

Eastgate is committed to promoting cooperative regional efforts in the planning, programming, and implementation of public sector activities. Eastgate serves as a forum to discuss common problems, formulate policies, and effect rational plans for the benefit of the region.

The Eastgate Development and Transportation Agency was created in 1973 as the result of combining the then Council of Governments with the Mahoning and Trumbull Comprehensive Transportation Study. EDATA, as the agency became known, was established as a regional Council of Governments with members in Ashtabula, Trumbull, Mahoning, and Columbiana Counties. The agency name reflected the primary role of the agency, transportation and economic development.

TODAY ~ The Eastgate Regional Council of Governments

As the agency has grown, our role and identity has also changed. While we have become more than just a transportation and development planning agency, we have maintained our role as the regional voice of government. The Eastgate Regional Council of Governments is a voluntary association of local governments in northeast Ohio. Our members include Mahoning County, Trumbull County, and all cities, villages, and townships in the counties.

Eastgate is directly responsible for a variety of federal, state, and local planning and project implementation programs. As the Metropolitan Planning Organization and Areawide Water Quality Management Agency for Mahoning and Trumbull Counties, and the designated Economic Development District, Eastgate continues to maintain required certifications and planning documents to qualify the region for federal and state funding. Other major areas of responsibility include: Air quality planning and the region's Air Quality Advisory Day Program, State Capital Improvement Program administration for the District 6 Public Works Integrating Committee, the Government Marketing Assistance Program, Intergovernmental review, Administration of the Regional Rideshare program, Administration of the Clean Ohio Conservation Fund, and local project sponsor for the Mahoning River Dredging Project.