Metropolitan Council Meeting

Dakota Land, Water, and People Acknowledgment

The Metropolitan Council acknowledges that the land we currently call Minnesota and specifically the seven-county region is the ancestral homeland of the Dakota Oyate who are present and active contributors to our thriving region. As part of the Metropolitan Council’s commitment to address the unresolved legacy of genocide, dispossession, and settler colonialism and the fact that government institutions, including the Metropolitan Council, benefitted economically, politically, and institutionally after the forceable removal of the Dakota Oyate, the Metropolitan Council is dedicated to instilling Land, Water, and People Commitments in regional policy. These commitments support the Dakota Oyate, the eleven federally recognized Tribes in Minnesota, Ho-Chunk Nation, and the American Indian Communities representing over 150 diverse Tribal Nations that call the seven-county region home.

Call to order

1. Dakota Land, Water, and People Acknowledgment
2. Swearing-In of Metropolitan Council Members
3. Approval of the agenda
4. Approval of June 25, 2025, Metropolitan Council minutes

Public invitation

Interested persons may address the Council on matters not on the agenda. Pre-register at [email protected]. Each speaker is limited to a three-minute presentation.
 

Consent business

1. 2025-153: 2050 TPP Amendment Release for Public Comment – Blue Line Extension and Gold Line Extension (Bradley Bobbitt 651-602-1724)

• Attachment 

Non-consent business – Reports of standing committees

 

Community Development

1. 2025-161 SW: Annual Metropolitan Regional Parks Operation & Maintenance Allocation (Nicole Clapp 651-602-1723)

Environment

1. No reports.

Management

1. 2025-128 SW: Grants Management Enterprise Software, Contract 25P123 (Sue Hauge, 651-602-1136; Heather Giesel, 651-602-1715)

Transportation

1. 2025-143: Procurement of 128 Biodiesel Forty-Foot Transit Buses, Contract 25P113 (Jeremiah Riter 612-349-5005)
2. 2025-145: Contract – Purchase of Non-Revenue Vehicles and Equipment for the Green Line Extension (Anthony Zessman 612-349-5073)

Joint reports

1. No reports.

Other business

1. 2025-59: Amendment to Metropolitan Council Member Committee Assignments

Information

1. 2025 Disparity Study (Keen Independent Research, Ashanti Payne and Jody Jacoby)

• Presentation

Reports

1. Chair
2. Council Members
3. Regional Administrator
4. General Counsel

Adjournment

Additional notes:
Items listed under the Consent Agenda will be enacted by one motion with no separate discussion. If discussion on an item is desired, the item could be removed from the Consent Agenda for separate consideration.

Key:
SW:      Action taken by the Council and Committee the same week
*           Agenda item changed following initial publication

Council contact:
Ginger Fride, Recording Secretary
[email protected]
651-602-1842
 

Committee information

Metropolitan Council

Committee contact:

Ryan O'Connor, Regional Administrator
[email protected]