TERRE HAUTE (WCIEDD)
Merv Nolot,
Executive Director; Ron Hinsenkamp, Chief Transportation Planner;
1718
Wabash Avenue, P.O. Box 359
Terre
Haute, IN 47808-0359
(812)
238-1561
FAX: (812) 238-1564
E-mail: mnolot@westcentralin.com; rhinsenkamp@westcentralin.com; mpo@westcentralin.com
Website:
www.westcentralin.com/transport.htm
Urbanized area: Terre Haute, IN; Counties: CLAY, PARKE,
PUTNAM, SULLIVAN, VERMILION, VIGO 1990 Urbanized Area Population: 77,019 The West Central Indiana
Economic Development District, Inc. (WCIEDD) is a Not-For Profit agency,
organized under Public Law 89-136, Title IV, of the Public Works and Economic
Development Act of 1965, and by Executive Order of the Governor of the State of
Indiana. From the time of its
inception in 1968 by the Terre Haute Committee for Area Progress, until 1974,
the WCIEDD was composed of five member counties.
These counties included Clay, Parke, Sullivan, Vermillion, and Vigo.
Putnam County joined the WCIEDD in 1974, to create the current six county
organization of the District. The central office of
WCIEDD is located at 1718 Wabash Avenue, in Terre Haute, Indiana.
The WCIEDD is governed by a board of directors consisting of up to six
representatives from each of the six individual member counties of the District,
for a total of thirty-six individuals. Each member county of the WCIEDD has one representative
chosen by the county commissioners, two county council representatives, one
representative who is the mayor or town board president of the largest city or
town within the member county, and two representatives from the member
county’s private citizen planning committee or economic development committee.
The WCIEDD Board of Directors meets on a quarterly basis each year.
The intervening months, an executive committee (composed of elected
officials and at least two board members from each county) of the board of
directors conducts the WCIEDD’s business. The WCIEDD was designated,
by action of the Governor, as the Areawide Clearinghouse for compliance with the
Office of Management and Budget Circular A-95 in 1972, subsequently replaced by
Executive Order 12372. On April 1, 1974, WCIEDD was also designated the Area Agency
on Aging. The designation of WCIEDD
as the Water Quality Management Planning Agency for EPA Section 208, water
quality planning, was made on April 18, 1975.
And on May 5, 1975, WCIEDD was also designated by the Governor as the
Metropolitan Planning Agency (MPO) for transportation planning in the Terre
Haute Urbanized Area. The overall objectives of
the West Central Indiana Economic Development District are to reduce
unemployment and underemployment, raise per capita income, halt out-migration,
and upgrade community facilities and services. Return to listing of Indiana MPOs. Return to MPO Council
main page.
2000 Urbanized Area Population: 79,376