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Re: Metropolitan Council

Postby David Greene » November 11th, 2016, 9:41 am

Hypothetically, if Republicans take the governorship and maintain their hold on both houses, how likely is it they would abolish the Met Council?

I think it's unlikely but that they would push through a change to have elected officials (mayors, county commissioners) make up the council. I don't think there's anything the DFL could do to stop it.

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Re: Metropolitan Council

Postby Anondson » November 11th, 2016, 2:02 pm

What percentage of the seats on the council are political appointees? The GOP may appreciate controlling Met Council to keep a thumb on Hennepin and Ramsey counties over taking a baseball bat to the whole thing and setting Hennepin and Ramsey free.

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Re: Metropolitan Council

Postby Silophant » November 11th, 2016, 3:05 pm

100%. They're all appointed by the Governor. Hence why the Met Council will never go away, IMO. The GOP hates it when they don't have the Governor's office, but is just fine with it when it's their guys. Like most governmental units, really.
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Re: Metropolitan Council

Postby talindsay » November 14th, 2016, 12:59 pm

I'll also note that the Met Council even functioned reasonably well under Pawlenty, who put in a few contrarians but mostly kept it running along, doing its job.

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Re: Metropolitan Council

Postby mattaudio » January 30th, 2017, 11:51 am

I saw this a week or two ago but haven't seen it on the forum. TAB selections from the 2016 Regional Solicitation.
https://metrocouncil.org/Transportation ... jects.aspx
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Re: Metropolitan Council

Postby MNdible » January 30th, 2017, 12:28 pm

Matt, any idea what the 46th Street Pedestrian Improvements project refers to?

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Re: Metropolitan Council

Postby twincitizen » January 30th, 2017, 3:03 pm

Is there a version of this TAB list split out by year? This solicitation covers years 2017-2021 or something, right?

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Re: Metropolitan Council

Postby mattaudio » February 6th, 2017, 9:50 am

http://www.startribune.com/for-fledglin ... 412753213/
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What a mess. But, Regional AF.

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Re: Metropolitan Council

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Re: Metropolitan Council

Postby sdho » June 27th, 2017, 7:30 pm

https://www.startribune.com/chairman-ad ... 431119133/

Adam Duinick to resign, to pursue a new "professional opportunity" (leading a union). Alene Tchourumoff appointed as replacement.

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Re: Metropolitan Council

Postby Bakken2016 » March 30th, 2018, 10:23 am

SF 2809 has been making its way through the MN Senate to modify it from being appointed to elected. Thoughts?

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Re: Metropolitan Council

Postby Silophant » March 30th, 2018, 10:33 am

Dayton will veto it if it gets to him.
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Re: Metropolitan Council

Postby Bakken2016 » March 30th, 2018, 10:51 am

Dayton will veto it if it gets to him.
So I read in here that the Met Council is not technically in compliance with federal requirements. is that true?

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Re: Metropolitan Council

Postby Multimodal » March 30th, 2018, 2:15 pm

So I read in here that the Met Council is not technically in compliance with federal requirements. is that true?
Wikipedia doesn’t think so, since it reports most MPOs across the country are appointed, excepting Portland.

I know that the Transportation Advisory Board (TAB) is a separate thing because of federal requirements.

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Re: Metropolitan Council

Postby Bakken2016 » March 30th, 2018, 2:34 pm

So I read in here that the Met Council is not technically in compliance with federal requirements. is that true?
Wikipedia doesn’t think so, since it reports most MPOs across the country are appointed, excepting Portland.

I know that the Transportation Advisory Board (TAB) is a separate thing because of federal requirements.
So the GOP is just trying to skew the perception of it to try and get people to hate the Council.

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Re: Metropolitan Council

Postby tmart » April 26th, 2018, 7:09 pm

Rep Lewis is pushing this at the federal level and has attached an anti-Met Council provision to the FAA budget, because of course he has.

http://www.startribune.com/u-s-house-ap ... 480995681/

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Re: Metropolitan Council

Postby VacantLuxuries » April 27th, 2018, 7:49 am

I've been thinking about the voting for Met Council members thing.

Is it more important to suburban Republicans to be able to ruin metro projects, or to no longer have to answer to the Met Council?

Because if they manage to pass this, I think maybe it's time to redraw the Council boundaries to carve out the areas that would be detrimental to the overall goal of a better metro area. The double-edged sword of this for the Republicans is the Met Council would be immune to a Republican governor coming in and appointing another Annette Meeks.

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Re: Metropolitan Council

Postby Anondson » April 27th, 2018, 8:04 am

Are the current districts equally divided by population? How often do they get redrawn?

Maybe some enterprising cartographers could experiment gerrymandering boundaries for these hypothetical elected districts?

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Re: Metropolitan Council

Postby VacantLuxuries » April 27th, 2018, 8:19 am

I'm not even talking districts, I'm saying straight up cut off the service areas to just Eastern Hennepin, Ramsey, and the urban fringes of the other counties.

If you only want to be a part of something to wreck it, you shouldn't be a part of it at all.

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Re: Metropolitan Council

Postby tmart » April 27th, 2018, 9:37 am

Experience and cynicism suggests to me that the first proposal out of the GOP camp will be to assign one elected rep per county, or per municipality. The toxic idea that political power is vested in land areas and not in humans will never die in this country.

Idealistically I do kind of like the idea of having an elected body that covers only the parts of the state that actually want to participate in the Metro area. An alternative, but perhaps pie-in-the-sky, idea I had to achieve that would be municipal mergers to incorporate first-ring/streetcar suburbs into Minneapolis or St. Paul, but I can't imagine ever having a unified Minneapolis-St. Paul municipality.


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