Metropolitan Council Meeting

Regular Meeting
December 3, 2025 | 4:00 p.m.
Location: Metropolitan Council Chambers, 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 Acknowledgment
  2. Approval of the agenda
  3. Approval of November 12, 2025, Metropolitan Council minutes

Swearing-in of Met Council Chair


Public invitation

Interested persons may address the Council on matters not on the agenda. Pre-register at [email protected]. Each speaker is limited to a three-minute presentation.


Public hearing

  1. 2025-308: Public Hearing on the Draft 2050 Regional Economic Framework (Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy Alternative) (Baris Gumus-Dawes 651-602-1331)

Consent business

  1. 2025-278: 2026 Authorized Financial Institutions (Mark Thompson, 651-602-1629)
  2. 2025-280: Streamlined 2026-2029 TIP Amendment Request – SouthWest Transit Southwest Station Rehabilitation (Robbie King, 651-602-1380)
  3. 2025-281: Streamlined 2026-2029 TIP Amendment Request – Two Bike/Ped Project Cost Increases (Robbie King, 651-602-1380)
  4. 2025-282: Streamlined 2026-2029 TIP Amendment Request – Three MnDOT Project Adjustments (Robbie King, 651-602-1380)
  5. 2025-293: Video Conference & Paging Maintenance and Support Services, Contract 25P143 (Gretchen White, 651-602-1443)

Non-consent business – Reports of standing committees

Community Development

  1. 2025-297: Funding Recommendations for 2025 Livable Communities Affordable Homeownership Grants (Emily Seddon 651-602-1023; Valerie Quarles, Livable Communities Advisory Committee Member)

Environment

  1. No reports.

Management

  1. No reports.

Transportation

  1. 2025-284: Trapeze Software Maintenance Agreement, Contract 22P150 – Amendment 1 (Sue Hauge, Gerri Sutton)
  2. 2025-285: Local Government Information Systems, Contract 16I032 - Amendment 1 (Sue Hauge 651-602-1136, Tammy Helgeson 612-349-7272)
  3. 2025-286: METRO Blue Line Extension Project Subordinate Funding Agreement No. 11 (#14I044K) with MnDOT for 2026 Staffing Services (Alicia Vap 612-349-7079)
  4. 2025-301: METRO Green Line Extension Construction Management Support Services Contract 17P060 - Amendment No. 7 (Jim Alexander 612-373-3880)

Joint reports

  1. No reports.

Other business

  1. 2025-53: Internal Audit Policy RF 5-1(Matt LaTour, Chief Audit Executive, Tami Rein, Audit Coordinator)
  2. 2025-54: Audit Charter (Matt LaTour, Chief Audit Executive, Tami Rein, Audit Coordinator)
  3. 2025-300: Amendment to Council Members Committee Assignments

Information

  1. Legislatively Mandated Reports (Nathan Hanson, Legislative and Community Relations Coordinator)
  2. Q3 2025 Safety and Security Action Plan (Lesley Kandaras 612-349-7513, Matt Broughton 612-34-7472, Interim Chief Joseph Dotseth 612-349-7269, Jeremy Zoss)
    • Presentation
    • Additional materials

Reports

  1. Chair
  2. Council Members
  3. Regional Administrator
  4. General Counsel
 

6:00 p.m. Public Comment on Budget and Levies

  1. 2025-279: Council Adopts Final Budget Resolutions 2025-24, 2025-25, 2025-26, 2025-27, 2025-28, 2025-29, 2025-30 (Ned Smith, Chief Financial Officer, 651-602-1162) roll call, after 6 p.m.

Adjournment


Additional notes:
Items listed under the Consent Agenda will be enacted by one motion with no separate discussion. If discussion on an item is desired, the item could be removed from the Consent Agenda for separate consideration.
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

Council contact:
Mee Cheng, Recording Secretary
[email protected]
651-602-1222

Committee information

Metropolitan Council

Committee contact:

Ryan O'Connor, Regional Administrator
[email protected]