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Re: Metropolitan Council

Postby Anondson » April 27th, 2018, 9:49 am

What about just merging Hennepin and Ramsey?

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Re: Metropolitan Council

Postby MNdible » April 27th, 2018, 10:00 am

The most critical function of the Met Council is sewage treatment, not buses. It needs to be bigger than just the urban core.

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Re: Metropolitan Council

Postby VacantLuxuries » April 27th, 2018, 10:02 am

Be that as it may, sewage treatment shouldn't be used as a club to keep beating the city every time we aspire to be something bigger than a place for outstate to come and watch football.

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Re: Metropolitan Council

Postby mattaudio » April 27th, 2018, 10:03 am

We can call it Ile De Minnesota

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Re: Metropolitan Council

Postby Multimodal » April 27th, 2018, 10:04 am

We can call it Ile De Minnesota
Ha ha. But some of us in The Marais want to participate, too.

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Re: Metropolitan Council

Postby MNdible » April 27th, 2018, 10:14 am

In any case, I'd guess that a truly representative seven county Met Council (proportioned by population, not some other shenanigans) would be supportive of transit.

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Re: Metropolitan Council

Postby EOst » April 27th, 2018, 10:42 am

Could a Met Council elected equally by county survive an Equal Protection challenge in the courts? IANAL, but I'd think Avery v. Midland County would be a relevant precedent.

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Re: Metropolitan Council

Postby tmart » April 28th, 2018, 4:20 pm

All the screeching about the Met Council being "unelected" makes me wonder who they think makes the appointments, and whether they'd also like to vote directly for the Commissioner of Education, Lottery Director, and Mark Dayton's personal assistant.

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Re: Metropolitan Council

Postby Anondson » May 25th, 2018, 2:06 pm

Bonding bill insert changes the regional planning process.

http://www.startribune.com/insert-in-bo ... 483656911/

Anyone who has read the language of the change care to forecast the consequences if it made it past a line item veto?

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Re: Metropolitan Council

Postby MNdible » May 25th, 2018, 4:36 pm

You can only line-item appropriations/spending. Even though a bonding bill should only be spending, this seems to be a policy provision they snuck in?

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Re: Metropolitan Council

Postby Tiller » May 28th, 2018, 12:07 am

Could make for a fun/interesting State Supreme Court case: legislative bills are supposed to have a single-topic according to the Minnesota Constitution vs the line-item veto only applies to appropriations. If this is in a bonding bill, then it should be bonding, and thus veto-able. If it isnt an appropriation/veto-able, then the court should nullify the change as unconstitutional.

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Metropolitan Council

Postby Anondson » May 30th, 2018, 9:24 am

https://twitter.com/StribRoper/status/1 ... 8032879617

Well... Dayton signed it. It’s law.

Now that it is law, how can the Met Council work with it?

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Re: Metropolitan Council

Postby Bakken2016 » May 30th, 2018, 11:34 am

https://twitter.com/StribRoper/status/1 ... 8032879617

Well... Dayton signed it. It’s law.

Now that it is law, how can the Met Council work with it?
So how I read it, doesn't it just give Nowthen the capability to question the planning?

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Re: RE: Metropolitan Council

Postby David Greene » May 31st, 2018, 8:22 am

https://twitter.com/StribRoper/status/1 ... 8032879617

Well... Dayton signed it. It’s law.

Now that it is law, how can the Met Council work with it?
They could sue on constitutional grounds.




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Re: Metropolitan Council

Postby alleycat » May 31st, 2018, 11:04 am

Scottie B. Tuska
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Re: Metropolitan Council

Postby VacantLuxuries » May 31st, 2018, 11:12 am

A separate Met Council bill was vetoed. An item in the bonding bill that was passed erodes some of Met Council's control over far flung exurbs.

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Re: Metropolitan Council

Postby alleycat » May 31st, 2018, 11:15 am

Yup. Thanks, I confused the two items based on the conversation above.
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Re: Metropolitan Council

Postby VacantLuxuries » October 31st, 2018, 10:23 am

Alene Tchourumoff is stepping down as Met Council chair to go work for the Minneapolis Federal Reserve.

https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/ ... s-fed.html

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Re: Metropolitan Council

Postby Silophant » December 18th, 2018, 12:17 pm

Walz's finalists for Met Council Chair:

Woodbury Mayor Mary Giuliani Stephens

Edina Mayor Jim Hovland

Maplewood Mayor Nora Slawik

I'm not optimistic.
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Re: Metropolitan Council

Postby xandrex » December 18th, 2018, 12:21 pm

Tweet from Morning Take says its Slawik: https://twitter.com/morningtake/status/ ... 1945315335


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