Safety Technical Advisory Group (STAG)

The Safety Technical Advisory Group (STAG) is made up of City Mayors; City Council Members; City Staff including Planners, Engineers, and Parks; First Responders; Transit Agencies; Schools; Chambers of Commerce; Trail Boards; and Advocacy Groups.

The role of the STAG is to meet regularly throughout the development of the Safety Action Plan to represent community views and values, discuss key safety concerns and ideas, provide input on preliminary data and findings, review countermeasures and programs for feasibility, and distribute announcements to their communities and the general public about upcoming events, information, and requests for feedback.

Information on upcoming STAG meetings and materials from past meetings can be found below.

The First meeting of the STAG took place on July 8, 2025. At this meeting, the group made introductions, and was presented with an overall project overview for the development of the Comprehensive Safety Action Plan, the role of the STAG, and safety goal/target setting.

The STAG will meet to review crash data, public input provided in the survey, and the resultant high risk network.

The STAG will meet to review and discuss proposed safety countermeasures and prioritized safety improvement projects.

The STAG will meet to discuss and provide feedback on the draft Comprehensive Safety Action Plan.


Related Efforts

  • MAPA was awarded additional funding through the Safe Streets for All program to develop a Comprehensive Safety Action Plan for an area that includes Douglas and Sarpy Counties in Nebraska, as well as the cities of Council Bluffs, Carter Lake, Crescent and McClelland in Iowa. This plan was completed in June 2025. For more information on that project, visit www.mapacog.org/projects/ss4a.
  • Each county in Iowa is developing a safety plan for county roads. This effort is funded through a separate grant from the Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) program. County plans will be considered during CSAP development.
  • The City of Omaha’s Vision Zero Action Plan (VZAP) is complete and available at www.omahavisionzero.com. MAPA supported development of the plan and will work to support plan implementation. The MAPA CSAP will incorporate the Omaha VZAP, and extend the safety planning process to the remainder of the MAPA SS4A Study Area.