A group tasked by the Legislature with reforming the Metropolitan Council will wrap up its work Thursday — but has not settled on a single proposal for restructuring the regional planning board. The Met Council — a powerful body with a wide range of responsibilities and a $1.4 billion budget — has long been criticized for lacking transparency and accountability, in part due to its members .
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Members have started presenting plans for how to do regional governance differently ahead of a Feb. 1 deadline to send recommendations to the Legislature.
The Metropolitan Governance Task Force has until Feb. 1 to send a proposal to the Legislature about how or whether to change how the Met Council is run.
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