Transportation Committee Meeting

Regular Meeting
May 12, 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)
  4. Transportation Accessibility Advisory Committee (TAAC) 

Consent business

  1. 2025-97: Authorization to Apply for Section 5311 Formula Grants for Rural Areas Funding, Resolution 2025-9 (Sheila Williams 651-602-1709)
  2. 2025-101 SW: Streamlined 2025-2028 TIP Amendment Request – CSAH 34 Sidewalk, Curb Ramp, and Signal Project (Joe Barbeau, 651-602-1750)
  3. 2025-102 SW:  Streamlined 2025-2028 TIP Amendment Request – MnDOT’s 5310 Bus Purchases (Joe Barbeau, 651-602-1750)
  4. 2025-103 SW: Streamlined 2025-2028 TIP Amendment Request – Charging and Fueling Infrastructure (CFI) Grant Program (Joe Barbeau, 651-602-1750)
  5. 2025-121: Right-of-Way Acquisition Loan Fund repayment from City of Ramsey for Parcel along US 10 east of Ramsey Blvd NW (Tony Fischer, 651-602-1703)

Information

  1. Update on the New West 7th Concept (Katie Roth 612-349-7772, Russ Stark- Chief Resilience Officer, City of Saint Paul

Non-consent business

  1. 2025-109 SW: Purchase of Vontas Transit Master (OnRoute) Systems (Jodi Janssen 651-602-1103, Paul Colton 651-602-1668)
  2. 2025-24: Procurement of 5 Transit Vans utilizing the State of North Dakota Contract 25P212 - SWT (Jodi Janssen 651-602-1103, Paul Colton 651-602-1668)
  3. 2025-114 SW: Northstar Equipment Lease Agreements with DART and Amtrak, Contract 25M036 (Brian Funk 612-349-7514, Bruce Cardon 612-349-7516)
  4. 2025-115 SW: METRO Green Line Extension Railcar Mover, Contract 24P298R (Jim Alexander 612-373-3880)

Information

  1. Highway Harms Study (Bethany Brandt-Sargent 651-602-1725)
  2. June 2025 Service & Workforce Update (Adam Harrington 612-349-7797)

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]