Mid-Columbia Council of Governments interim executive director David Meriwether gave a report and recommendations on the future of the organization to its board on Tuesday.  MCCOG involves Hood River, Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam, and Wheeler counties plus cities and other entities in those counties, and is intended to provide services that can be done more efficiently as a group than through each individual entity.  But a shrinking number of programs and overhead concerns have led to a review of whether the organization is still useful.  Meriwether addressed several topics and gave the board a basic recommendation:  decide whether to do what’s necessary to make MCCOG what it can be or not, and if not then what will be done with the programs.  The MCCOG board will discuss the recommendations and the future of the organization at a meeting on August 8.