Transportation Committee Meeting

Regular Meeting
April 28, 2025 | 4:00 p.m.
Location: Robert Street Council Chambers - 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 April 14, 2025, Transportation Committee minutes

Employee recognition – Metro Transit

  1. Metro Transit General Manager

Reports

  1. Metropolitan Transportation Services Director
  2. Metro Transit General Manager
  3. Transportation Advisory Board (TAB)

Consent business

  1. 2025-101: Streamlined 2025-2028 TIP Amendment Request – CSAH 34 Sidewalk, Curb Ramp, and Signal Project (Joe Barbeau, 651-602-1750)
  2. 2025-102:  Streamlined 2025-2028 TIP Amendment Request – MnDOT’s 5310 Bus Purchases (Joe Barbeau, 651-602-1750)
  3. 2025-103: Streamlined 2025-2028 TIP Amendment Request – Charging and Fueling Infrastructure (CFI) Grant Program (Joe Barbeau, 651-602-1750)
  4. 2025-97: Authorization to Apply for Section 5311 Formula Grants for Rural Areas Funding, Resolution 2025-9 (Sheila Williams 651-602-1709)

Non-consent business

  1. 2025-114: Northstar Equipment Lease Agreements with DART and Amtrak, Contract 25M036 (Brian Funk 612-349-7514, Bruce Cardon 612-349-7516)
  2. 2025-115: METRO Green Line Extension Railcar Mover, Contract 24P298R (Jim Alexander 612-373-3880)
  3. 2025-109: Purchase of Vontas Transit Master (OnRoute) Systems (Jodi Janssen 651-602-1103, Paul Colton 651-602-1668)

Information

  1. Highway Harms Study (Bethany Brandt-Sargent 651-602-1725)

Adjournment

Key:
JT:       Joint business item; presented at two or more committees prior to being presented at Council
SW:      Action taken by the Council and Committee the same week
*           Agenda item changed following initial publication

Committee information

Transportation Committee

Committee contact:

Jenna Ernst
651-602-1758
[email protected]