Committee of the Whole Meeting

Regular Meeting
May 7, 2025 | 4:00 p.m.
Location: Metropolitan Council Room 1A, 390 Robert St. N., Saint Paul, MN 55101 – 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 Acknowledgement
  2. Approval of the agenda
  3. Approval of March 19, 2025, Metropolitan Council’s Committee of the Whole minutes

Information

  1. Q1 2025 Safety and Security Action Plan (Lesley Kandaras, 612-349-7513; Interim Chief Joseph Dotseth, 612-349-7269; Captain Salah Ahmed, Sergeant Kadra Mohamed, Rachael Jones, 612-349-7471)
    • Presentation
    • Additional materials
  2. Update on the Council’s Comprehensive Climate Action Plan (Peter Wilfahrt, 651-602-1066; Gillian Greenberg, 651-602-1726)

Adjournment


Key:
*           Agenda item changed following initial publication

Council contact:

Mindy Shipman, Recording Secretary
[email protected]
651-602-1370
 

Committee information

Committee of the Whole

Committee contact:

Ryan O'Connor, Regional Administrator
[email protected]