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Re: Metropolitan Council
Posted: April 27th, 2018, 9:49 am
by Anondson
What about just merging Hennepin and Ramsey?
Re: Metropolitan Council
Posted: April 27th, 2018, 10:00 am
by MNdible
The most critical function of the Met Council is sewage treatment, not buses. It needs to be bigger than just the urban core.
Re: Metropolitan Council
Posted: April 27th, 2018, 10:02 am
by VacantLuxuries
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.
Re: Metropolitan Council
Posted: April 27th, 2018, 10:03 am
by mattaudio
We can call it Ile De Minnesota
Re: Metropolitan Council
Posted: April 27th, 2018, 10:04 am
by Multimodal
We can call it Ile De Minnesota
Ha ha. But some of us in The Marais want to participate, too.
Re: Metropolitan Council
Posted: April 27th, 2018, 10:14 am
by MNdible
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.
Re: Metropolitan Council
Posted: April 27th, 2018, 10:42 am
by EOst
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.
Re: Metropolitan Council
Posted: April 28th, 2018, 4:20 pm
by tmart
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.
Re: Metropolitan Council
Posted: May 25th, 2018, 2:06 pm
by Anondson
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?
Re: Metropolitan Council
Posted: May 25th, 2018, 4:36 pm
by MNdible
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?
Re: Metropolitan Council
Posted: May 28th, 2018, 12:07 am
by Tiller
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.
Metropolitan Council
Posted: May 30th, 2018, 9:24 am
by Anondson
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?
Re: Metropolitan Council
Posted: May 30th, 2018, 11:34 am
by Bakken2016
So how I read it, doesn't it just give Nowthen the capability to question the planning?
Re: RE: Metropolitan Council
Posted: May 31st, 2018, 8:22 am
by David Greene
They could sue on constitutional grounds.
Re: Metropolitan Council
Posted: May 31st, 2018, 11:04 am
by alleycat
Re: Metropolitan Council
Posted: May 31st, 2018, 11:12 am
by VacantLuxuries
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.
Re: Metropolitan Council
Posted: May 31st, 2018, 11:15 am
by alleycat
Yup. Thanks, I confused the two items based on the conversation above.
Re: Metropolitan Council
Posted: October 31st, 2018, 10:23 am
by VacantLuxuries
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
Re: Metropolitan Council
Posted: December 18th, 2018, 12:17 pm
by Silophant
Walz's
finalists for Met Council Chair:
Woodbury Mayor Mary Giuliani Stephens
Edina Mayor Jim Hovland
Maplewood Mayor Nora Slawik
I'm not optimistic.
Re: Metropolitan Council
Posted: December 18th, 2018, 12:21 pm
by xandrex