Committee of the Whole Meeting

Regular Meeting
October 15, 2025 | 4:00 p.m.
Location: Metropolitan Council Room 1A, 390 Robert St. N., Saint Paul, MN 55101 – Directions

Agenda

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. Approval of the agenda
  3. Approval of September 3, 2025 & September 17, 2025, Metropolitan Council’s Committee of the Whole minutes

Information

  1. Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy: Project update and feedback on draft (Baris Gumus-Dawes 651-602-1331; Merritt Clapp-Smith 651-602-1567)
  2. Imagine 2050 Outcomes Measurement Program - Continued Discussion (Krysten Ryba-Tures 651-602-1821; Sarah Nelson 651-602-1396)
  3. Advertising Standards Background (Michael Schommer, George Henry 651-602-1502)
    • Presentation

Adjournment

Key:
*           Agenda item changed following initial publication

Council contact:

Mee Cheng, Recording Secretary
[email protected]
651-602-1222

Committee information

Committee of the Whole

Committee contact:

Ryan O'Connor, Regional Administrator
[email protected]