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SOUTH SUBURBAN MAYORS AND MANAGERS ASSOCIATION
1904 West 174th Street
East Hazel Crest, Illinois 60429
Phone: 708.206.1155
Fax: 708.206.1133
Website: http://www.ssmma.org
Located south of the City of Chicago, the South Suburban Mayors and Managers Association (SSMMA) is an intergovernmental agency providing technical assistance and joint services to forty-three (43) municipalities representing a population over 650,000 in Cook and Will Counties. SSMMA members work cooperatively on transportation, legislation, land use, economic development, recycling, purchasing, storm water and open space planning, infrastructure, human resources, public safety and housing issues.
The South Suburban Mayors and Managers Association is organized:
- To provide a means by which geographically related municipalities in the area south of Chicago could cooperate;
- To explore and recommend solutions to common municipal problems;
- To develop and administer and/or foster intergovernmental programs on a voluntary basis;
- To develop a common voice on municipal positions in the southern suburbs and to communicate these positions as a single voice to the legislative, executive and judicial branches of state and federal government as well as applicable private organizations;
- To cooperate with other municipalities, municipal groups and intergovernmental organizations in the Chicago area, the State of Illinois and the United States toward solutions to municipal problems;
- To provide general governmental assistance to member municipalities;
- To improve the economic climate and quality-of-life in the southern suburbs and the entire metropolitan region by working with other regional and sub-regional organizations.
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