Metropolitan Parks and Open Space Commission Meeting

Regular Meeting
September 4, 2025 | 4:00 p.m.
Location: Streetcar Museum, Como Regional Park, 1224 North Lexington Parkway, St. Paul, MN 55103


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. Approval of the Agenda
  2. Approval of the August 7, 2025 Special Meeting of the Metropolitan Parks and Open Space Commission minutes.

Public Invitation

Invitation to interested persons to address the Metropolitan Parks and Opens Space Commission. Pre-register at [email protected]. Each speaker is limited to a three-minute presentation.


Business –  30 minutes

  1. 2025-220, Release the Draft Amendment to the 2050 Regional Parks and Trails Policy Plan, Modernizing Mapping, for Public Comment and Set Public Hearing Date (Tracey Kinney, 651-602-1029 and Kevin Phan, 651-602-1333)

Information – 30 minutes

  1. An Update on the Revised Slate of Outcomes Measures for the Regional Parks and Trails System (Colin Kelly, 651-602-1361 and Kevin Phan, 651-602-1333)

Reports

  1. Chair
  2. Committee Members
  3. Council Liaison
  4. Staff

Adjournment

Key:
*           Agenda item changed following initial publication
 

Committee information

Metropolitan Parks and Open Space Commission

Committee contact:

Sandi Dingle
[email protected]
651.602.1312