Equity Advisory Committee Meeting

Regular Meeting
April 21, 2026 | 6:00 p.m.
Location: Virtual

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 February 17 and March 17 2026, Equity Advisory Committee minutes

Public invitation

Invitation to interested persons to address the Equity Advisory Committee. Pre-register at [email protected]. Each speaker is limited to a three-minute presentation.
 

Information

  1. Office of Civil Rights and Small Business Programs (OCRSB) Engagement & Development Unit- Thomas Mebrahtu, Manager, Office of Civil Rights and Small Business Programs (OCRSB)
  2. Office of Civil Rights and Small Business Programs Name Update- Ashanti Payne, Director of Office of Civil Rights and Small Business Programs (OCRSB)

Council Member Standing committees

  1. Council Member John Pacheco: Management, Transportation, Metro Blue Line Extension Corridor Management Committee
  2. Council Member Dr. Tyronne Carter: Environment, Transportation, Metro Green Line Extension Corridor Management, Environmental Quality Board
  3. Council Member Toni Carter: Community Development, Transportation, Riverview Corridor Policy Advisory
  4. Council Member Yassin Osman: Management, Transportation, Metro Blue Line Extension Corridor Management Committee, Hennepin County Community Works Bottineau Steering

Adjournment

Key:
*             Agenda item changed following initial publication

Committee information

Equity Advisory Committee

Committee contact:

Lila Eltawely, Enterprise Equity Senior Manager
[email protected]