Transportation Advisory Board 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. Approval of the agenda

Public invitation

Invitation to interested persons to address the Transportation Advisory Board. Pre-register at [email protected]. Each speaker is limited to a three-minute presentation.

Reports (12:35-1:00)

1. TAB Chair’s Report – Jim Hovland
2. Agency Reports – MnDOT, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, Metropolitan Airports Commission, Metropolitan Council, Suburban Transit Association
3. TAC Report – Joe MacPherson, TAC Chair

Approval of Minutes (1:00-1:05)

1. Approval of July 16, 2025, Transportation Advisory Board minutes

Non-consent business (1:05-1:45)

1. 2025-20: Corridors of Commerce Readiness Recommendation (Joe MacPherson, TAC Chair)
2. 2025-18: Scope Change: MVTA (Joe MacPherson, TAC Chair)
3. 2025-19: 2026-2029 Transportation Improvement Program (Joe MacPherson, TAC Chair)

• Public Comment Report
• 2026-2029 TIP Document

4. 2025-26: TPP Aviation System Plan Update Release for Public Comment (Joe MacPherson, TAC Chair)

• Aviation System Plan
• Aviation Supporting Information

5. 2025-27: 2026 Unified Planning Work Program (Joe MacPherson, TAC Chair)

• 2026 UPWP Document
• 2026 Regional Work Program
• Presentation (Jed Hanson, MTS)

6. 2025-28: Program Year Extension: St. Paul Arlington Avenue Sidewalk Infill (Joe MacPherson, TAC Chair)

Information (1:45-2:30)

1. Mobility Improvements (Bradley Bobbitt, MTS; Matt Fyten, MVTA)
   • Presentation
2. Minnesota Go Vision Update (Whitney Mason, MnDOT)
   • Presentation
3. Regional Solicitation Evaluation Update
   • Policymaker Work Group (Jim Hovland, Chair)
   • Active Transportation Work Group (Glen Johnson, Chair)

Items of TAB members

Other business

Adjournment

Key:
*           Agenda item changed following initial publication
 

Committee information

Transportation Advisory Board

Committee contact:

Elaine Koutsoukos
[email protected]