Environment Committee Meeting

Regular Meeting
August 26, 2025 | 4:00 p.m.
Location: Robert Street Council Chambers - Directions

Agenda

Straight Connector 13, ShapeDakota 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  

  1. Approval of the agenda 

  1. Approval of July 08, 2025, Environment Committee minutes  

Consent business  

None at this time. 

Non-consent business 

  1. 2025-198 SW: Approval for amendment to Contract 24P055 ( Judy Sventek, 651-602-1156) 

  1. 2025-210: Water Sustainability Master Contract Project No. 24P275 (Judy Sventek, 651-602-1156) 

 

Information 

  1. Intern Presentations (Alison Wayman, Evan Lesser, Peter Miller, Faizan Bhutto, Lucy Jones) 

  1. 2026 Capital Program (Kyle Colvin 651-602-1151, Rene Heflin 651-602-1077, Adam Gordon 651-602-4503) 

Reports 

  1. Chair 

  1. Committee Members 

  1. General Manager 

Adjournment 

Committee information

Environment Committee

Committee contact:

Nneka Onah
[email protected]
651-602-8101