Environment Committee Meeting

Regular Meeting
January 27, 2026 | 4:00 p.m.
Location: Robert Street Council Chambers - Directions

1/20/26 Building access update: To enter the building, simply press the call button located at the west side doors (nearest Robert Street). Our front desk team will be promptly alerted and will assist you with entry.

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 January 13, 2026, Environment Committee minutes

Consent business

  1. 2026-28 SW: Amendment Three to Contract 21P247- Mechanical Pipefitting Service for all Metropolitan Council Environmental Services (MCES) Facilities (John Tierney, 651-602-8307)

Information

  1. Sacred Water Shared Future, 2026 Mississippi Water Campaign (Casandra Champion 651-602-8745, Eleanor Hohulin 651-602-1053, Alicia Uzarek 651-602-1042, Laurie Moberg)
    • Presentation
    • Website: https://sacredwatersharedfuture.org/

Reports

  1. Chair
  2. Council Members
  3. General Manager

Adjournment

Key:
JT:       Joint business item; presented at two or more committees prior to being presented at Council
SW:      Action taken by the Council and Committee the same week
*           Agenda item changed following initial publication

Committee information

Environment Committee

Committee contact:

Nneka Onah
[email protected]
651-602-8101