Let’s support our Met Council to be more transparent and accountable to help meet our climate, affordable housing and transit safety goals in partnership with cities and counties and community groups.
Join us at upcoming Metropolitan Governance Task Force https://www.lcc.mn.gov/mgtf/index.html
Public Engagement Listening Sessions
If you would like to speak at the meeting to provide testimony, please fill out the RSVP Form on this page https://www.lcc.mn.gov/mgtf/meetings.html You can also send your written comments into MGTF staff Taylor Koehler at taylor.koehler@lcc.mn.gov
- Thursday, December 14, 2023, at 12pm at the Lake Elmo City Center in Lake Elmo
- Friday, January 5, 2024, at 12pm at the University of Minnesota’s Robert J. Jones Urban Research and Outreach/Engagement Center (UROC) in Minneapolis
- Tuesday, January 9, 2024, at 6pm at the Scott County Government Center in Shakopee
An elected Met Council could accelerate Regional Climate Implementation
Let’s maintain mutual accountability and transparency to achieve region-wide climate mitigation & adaptation goals on time with state agencies, Met Council, cities, counties & partners.
- An Elected Met Council will have both a mandate from local voters and the time needed to receive new ideas from stakeholders and cities and counties to support breakthrough solutions on complex issues including climatechange, transit safety, housing supply and reversing racial wealth gaps and health disparities. Elected Met Council Members would be covering areas larger than county commissioners & should receive commensurate pay, so they can focus on their elected roles.
Let’s follow the example of dozens of successful Regional Climate Collaboratives across the U.S. here in the Twin Cities to scale up climate-friendly regional investments and local policy adoption & projects by metro cities and counties to achieve our climate goals on time.
See five good national examples https://rccmn.co/regionalclimatecollaboratives/
Many city elected leaders, commission volunteers and city staff we work would like the Met Council to take a more active role in in guiding and supporting cities to take effective climate actions. For example – https://rccmn.co/buildings/ to reduce natural gas use in new and existing residential and commercial buildings–we need to line up high impact actions | examples of successful projects & policies | strategy specific funding guidance to combine MN, federal funding, tax credits, utility $
- Current Met Council Planning Resources for Cities https://metrocouncil.org/Planning/Climate.aspx
In addition, we need specific working groups within our current Met Council to maintain focus, momentum and mutual accountability and transparency for for climate implementation
- Met Council Climate Change Working Group, actively supports and maintains accountability with departments to implement the Met Council’s Climate Action work plan for operations &
- Launch a new Metro Regional Climate Change working group – as a joint sub committee of the Land Use Advisory Committee and Transportation Advisory Board to implement the new Region Wide Metro Climate Action Plan, Met Council staff are currently developing with EPA CPRG funding.
- With representatives from implementation experts (nonprofits and businesses) and representatives from metro cities and counties leading on climate
Let’s manage collaborative multi-jurisdictional climate implementation within ONE open-source collaborative strategy engagement platform to sync up, investments, staffing and resources to implement our Minnesota, Metro, County and City Climate Action plans
We can Streamline/Facilitate Collaborative Implementation of Local/Regional Climate Action Plans with city, county & regional teams using the Insight Vision Strategy Engagement Platform with training/coaching (nationally-recognized, secure, easy to use, soon to be open source) to track goals | benchmarks | actions | strategy maps |team members | funding sources | project outcomes/case studies | grant reporting Nationally Recognized Insight Vision Strategy Engagement Platform https://www.insightformation.com/insightvision