Water Supply Technical Advisory Committee Meeting

For in-person meetings held at the Robert Street location: As of 1/20/26, to enter the building, simply press the call button located at the west side doors (nearest Robert Street). Our front desk team will be promptly alerted and will assist you with entry.

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. Acceptance of the agenda
2. Approval of December 10, 2025, Joint Meeting of the Metropolitan Water Supply Advisory Committee and the Water Supply Technical Advisory Committee minutes

Information items and committee work

1. Introduction of new TAC members (Greg Johnson)
   • Presentation - Introduction of new TAC members
2. Update on local planning assistance resources: Water supply plan resources (Claudia Hochstein, DNR; Lanya Ross)
   • Presentation – Water supply planning update
3. Proposed approach for MAWSAC report to Legislature and Met Council (Lanya Ross)
   • Presentation: TAC Input to MAWSAC report
   • Group discussion
4. Take aways from integrated water planning workshop (Steve Christopher, Jen Kostrzewski)
   • Presentation: Regional workshop for integrated water planning
   • Additional materials: Integrated Water Planning Workshop summary
5. Continued scoping of priority technical projects (Greg Johnson, Jessica Collin-Pilarski, Lanya Ross)
   • Presentation – Continued scoping of priority technical projects
   • Presentation – Regional assessment of aging infrastructure
   • Presentation – Regional Groundwater Model update – Phase 1
6. 2026-2028 Water Efficiency Grants Program* (Henry McCarthy and Jen Kostrzewski)
   • Presentation – 2026-2028 Water Efficiency Grant Program*
7. Government affairs update*
   • Presentation – Government affairs update
8. Roundtable discussion - Committee member updates*
   • Presentation – Roundtable discussion – committee member updates

Next steps

1. Next meeting – May 14, 2026 at 390 Robert St. N., Saint Paul
2. Call for volunteers – letters of support, beta-testers

Adjournment

Key:
*  Agenda item changed following initial publication

Committee information

Water Supply Technical Advisory Committee

Committee contact:

Shannon Skally
[email protected]