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Our Community Choice Program is helping low-income families prosper in a new home and neighborhood, where they feel safer more supported, and better able to reach their goals.

We're working with the Nature Conservancy and Tree Trust to build an app that helps communities track where tree canopies are thin and then prioritize where to get the most impact from new planting.

The project now moves into the detailed design phase, which will occur into 2022, with construction in 2023 and service anticipated to begin in 2024.   

Achievement of this major milestone helps to clear the way for the transfer of the project from Ramsey County to the Metropolitan Council in late 2021 or early 2022.

The award recognizes our agency’s dedication to helping consumers and businesses save water, despite the challenges and disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic.

There are things the Met Council can do to, such as targeting more of its available funds to families with earnings of $31,000 or less. But that represents a drop in the bucket.

These Livable Communities grants support planning, analysis, design, and engagement activities to help ensure the success of future development projects.

This action to invest in anti-displacement is intended to support corridor residents, businesses, and equitable development in the corridor.

Among projects are an electric vehicle planning study and Metro Transit’s ongoing work to transition its fleet to electric vehicles.

The Met Council has long been committed to the sustainability of the region through our work in wastewater treatment and monitoring water quality, providing transit service, and funding the regional park system. But in recent years we have become increasingly focused on actions that will further reduce regional carbon emissions, help communities adapt to climate change impacts, and increase the region’s resiliency.

Metropolitan Council members are sorting through the suggestions and feedback from community members, transit customers, and transit employees to improve safety on the region’s transit system.

We use aerial photography, county and assessor information, building permits, and internet searches to collect the information about every five years.

This month, the Metropolitan Council took an important step that builds on the community engagement around transit safety we’ve been doing in partnership with the Citizens League over the past year: we established a Metro Transit Police Work Group.

The Fiscal Disparities Act promotes greater equity in the distribution of fiscal resources among local taxing jurisdictions. It still attracts national and even international attention.

Goats are among a suite of management tools that regional park staff use to reduce the presence of undesirable plant species and they have one big advantage: people love them.