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Metro Cities Task Force Report on Metropolitan Governance - Metro Cities Page 1 of 4 <br />TRO CITIES <br />CM -E <br />Association of Metropolitan Municipalities <br />Search <br />GO <br />10160161644111011101 <br />ORNI*0 WNW* <br />' Come <br />leo Com, Tabic Force <br />%NW9A Mokrowatirkan <br />tikeinews <br />gtorAMMIMPlillialb <br />1YMINii�i!4 <br />161111410111111041694 <br />Aavoeiaiion <br />upas, Comments o+' <br />eons <br />METRO CITIES <br />TASK FORCE ON METROPOLITAN GOVERNANCE <br />Findings and Recommendations <br />January, 2012 <br />INTRODUCTION <br />A Metro Cities Metropolitan Governance Task Force was created in 2011 to examine Metro <br />Cities' legislative policies on regional governance and to make policy recommendations to the <br />Metro Cities Board of Directors and membership. <br />The Metro Cities Board of Directors deemed a policy review to be timely given the release of <br />the 2011 Legislative Audit on transit governance and recent legislative proposals to alter the <br />governance structure of the Metropolitan Council. <br />The Task Force was comprised of 17 elected and appointed city officials from throughout the <br />metropolitan area. Three meetings were held. Featured speakers included former <br />Metropolitan Council Chairs Peter Bell and Ted Mondale, former Met Council Administrator <br />Jim Solem, Metropolitan Council Government Affairs staff Judd Schetnan, and Legislative <br />Auditor Judy Randall. The Task Force established a set of policy recommendations and <br />findings that were subsequently adopted by the Metro Cities Board of Directors and <br />membership in November, 2011. <br />BACKGROUND <br />Metro Cities is the region -wide entity representing the joint interests of metropolitan cities at <br />the Metropolitan Council, Legislature and Executive Branch and works to advance policy <br />positions that serve the interests of metropolitan area cities. <br />Metro Cities' policies support the existence of a regional government for the purposes of <br />facilitating region wide planning and providing services that cannot be as effectively and <br />efficiently provided by local governments or the state. Metro Cities' policies include positions <br />on regional governance and Metropolitan Council policies and activities, and because of the <br />unique and key relationships between the Metropolitan Council and cities, support the need <br />for the Council to work collaboratively and in partnership with cities in the region. <br />Metro Cities' policies on regional governance have evolved over time, with many recent <br />policies on governance the result of a previous task force undertaken by Metro Cities <br />(Association of Metropolitan Municipalities) in 1998. The impetus for that study was the <br />changing functions of the Metropolitan Council and restructuring of the Council in 1994. That <br />AMM study developed several observations, principles and criteria regarding metropolitan <br />governance, and recommended staggered terms for Metropolitan Council members. Metro <br />http://www.metrocitiesmn.org/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC=%7bD0523 9DA-610D-4... 2/17/2016 <br />