Metropolitan Council Committees

Metropolitan Council

The 17-member Metropolitan Council is a policy-making board that guides the strategic growth of the metro area. 

• Metropolitan Council
• Committee of the Whole

Standing committees

Metropolitan Council members serve on special committees that meet regularly and make recommendations to the full Council. Standing committee meetings are the best place to provide comment on specific agenda items. To provide testimony at a committee meeting, contact the committee’s recording secretary.

• Community Development Committee

• Environment Committee

• Management Committee

• Transportation Committee

Work groups

We occasionally create work groups to provide a forum for Council members to work with each other and staff to assist the Met Council in performing its duties and responsibilities. Work groups may make recommendations to standing committees or the full Met Council and are not decision-making bodies. If work group membership constitutes a quorum of a standing committee, their meetings are noticed as special meetings of the standing committee.

• BIPOC Work Group

• Climate Work Group

• Metro Transit Police Work Group

Advisory committees

Advisory committees on land use, transportation, and other topics provide the Met Council with important assistance and advice. Advisory committees are made up of local elected officials, members of the public with expertise in specific areas, and representatives of partnering organizations or specific geographic areas.

• Audit Committee

• Equity Advisory Committee

• Investment Review Committee

• Land Use Advisory Committee

• Livable Communities Advisory Committee

• Metropolitan Parks and Open Space Commission

• Transportation Accessibility Advisory Committee (TAAC)

• Transportation Advisory Board (TAB)

• TAB Technical Advisory Committee (TAC)

  • TAC Funding & Programming Committee

  • TAC Planning Committee

• Water Supply Advisory Committee

  • Water Supply Technical Advisory Committee

Project committees

Southwest Light Rail (SWLRT)

• SWLRT Corridor Management Committee

• SWLRT Disadvantaged Business Enterprise & Workforce Advisory Committee

• SWLRT Executive Change Control Board

• SWLRT Business Advisory Committee

Blue Line Extension light rail project

• Blue Line Extension Corridor Management Committee

• Blue Line Extension Community Advisory Committee

• Blue Line Extension Business Advisory Committee

METRO Gold Line bus rapid transit project

• Gold Line Executive Change Control Board

• Gold Line Corridor Management Committee

• Gold Line Community and Business Advisory Committee

Short-term committees

• Governor's Blue Ribbon Committee

• Metro Mobility Task Force