Committee of the Whole Meeting

Regular Meeting
April 15, 2026 | 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 March 18, 2026 Metropolitan Council’s Committee of the Whole minutes

Consent business

  1. 2026-54: Purchase of Bulk Bisulfite Chemical, Contract 25P269 (Joe Ward, 651-602-8302) **
  2. 2026-56: Lift Station L32A, Construction Engineering Services, Contract 20P210 – Amendment 2 (Tim Wedin, 651-602-4571) **
  3. 2026-57: Contract 25P150: Scaffolding System Services for All Metropolitan Council Environmental Services Water Resource Recovery Facilities (WRRFs) (John Tierney, 651-602-8307) **
  4. 2026-60: Ratification of Declaration of Emergency Repair of Minneapolis Interceptor 1-MN-344 (Chris Remus, 651-602-4538) **

Non-consent business – Reports of standing committees

 

Transportation

  1. 2026-70: West Metro Transit Service, Contract 25P218 (John Harper, 651-602-1744) **

Information

  1. Art + Policy Impact Report: Imagine 2050 (Thony Thao, Eleanor Hohulin, Erika Herrmann)
  2. Metro HRA Funding and Program Update (Terri Smith, Stephanie Paulson)

Adjournment


Key:
*           Agenda item changed following initial publication
**          Business Item requiring timely Council action being heard at the Committee of the Whole

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

Committee information

Committee of the Whole

Committee contact:

Ryan O'Connor, Regional Administrator
[email protected]