Metro Area Water Supply Advisory Committee Meeting

Regular Meeting
March 26, 2026 | 12:30 p.m.
Location: Robert Street Room Lower Level A (LLA) - Directions

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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. Acknowledgement of the agenda
  2. Approval of December 10, 2026, joint meeting of the Metropolitan Area Water Supply Advisory Committee and Water Supply Technical Advisory Committee minutes.

Information items and committee work

  1. Local planning assistance resources: Water supply planning (Lanya Ross, Claudia Hochstein - DNR)
  2. Regional integrated water planning workshop (Steve Christopher, Jen Kostrzewski)
  3. Technical projects (Greg Johnson, Jess Collin-Pilarski)
  4. MAWSAC report to Legislature and Met Council (Lanya Ross)
  5. Government affairs and legislative update (Sam Paske)
  6. Chair update and committee round-robin (Wendy Wulff)

Next steps

  1. Next meeting: June 11, 2026, at Met Council Regional Maintenance Facility in Eagan
  2. Reminder: the November 5 meeting was rescheduled to December 10, 2026
  3. Consider sending letters of support by April 30, 2026

Adjournment

Committee information

Metro Area Water Supply Advisory Committee

Committee contact:

Shannon Skally
[email protected]