Transportation Committee Meeting

Regular Meeting
August 25, 2025 | 4:00 p.m.
Location: Heywood Council Chambers - Directions
Minutes (PDF)

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Agenda

Call to order

  1. Approval of the agenda
  2. Approval of August 11, 2025, Transportation Committee minutes

Employee recognition – Metro Transit

  1. Metro Transit General Manager

Reports

  1. Metropolitan Transportation Services Executive Director
  2. Metro Transit General Manager
  3. Transportation Advisory Board (TAB)
  4. Joint Labor Management Safety Committee (JLMSC)

Consent business

  1. 2025-205: Corridors of Commerce Local Screening and Recommendation: City of Anoka’s Highway 47/BNSF Railway Crossing Project (Bethany Brandt-Sargent 651-602-1725, Steve Peterson 651-602-1819)  

Non-consent business

  1. 2025-137: METRO Blue Line Extension – Adequacy Determination (Kelcie Young 612-349-3886)
    • Presentation: 2025-137: METRO Blue Line Extension – Adequacy Determination
  2. 2025-170 JT: Transit Funding Allocation Policy (Charles Carlson 651-602-1761)
  3. 2025-194 JT: 2025 Budget Amendment – 3rd Quarter (Ruth Crowe-Lane 612-349-7602, Heather Giesel 651-602-1715)
  4. 2025-201: METRO E Line – Amendment 1 to Engineering and Construction Administration Contract 21P364 (Adam Smith 612-349-7160)
    • Presentation: 2025-201: METRO E Line – Amendment 1 to Engineering and Construction Administration Contract 21P364
  5. 2025-207: METRO Green Line Extension Site Maintenance, Contract 25P074 (Nic Dial 612-373-3974)
  6. 2025-216: 2026-2029 Transportation Improvement Program (Joe Barbeau 651-602-1705)

Information

  1. Workforce Update (Alyssa Haugen 612-349-7502, Shanta Hejmadi 612-349-7107)
  2. 2025 Second Quarter Ridership Update (John Harper 651-602-1744, Joey Reid 612-349-7535, Rachel Dungca 612-349-7536)

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

Transportation Committee

Committee contact:
Becky Gorell
612-349-7515
[email protected]