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Committee approves consent agenda items 3–11, including alley project hearings, county cooperative agreements and Gold Line support
Summary
The committee approved consent agenda items 3–11 by voice vote. Items included setting hearings, capital appropriation adjustments for alley programs, cooperative agreements with Hennepin County and the Regional Railroad Authority, project concept approvals, and a resolution supporting the Gold Line BRT extension.
The Climate and Infrastructure Committee approved the consent agenda items 3 through 11 during its March 20 meeting.
Chair Katie Cashman moved approval of the consent agenda. The listed items included:
- Item 3: Designate location and set a public hearing for May 8 for the 2025 alley reconstruction project. - Item 4: Amend the 2025 capital appropriation resolution by decreasing appropriations to the alley renovation program and increasing appropriations to the unpaved alley construction program. - Item 5: Authorize a cooperative funding agreement with Hennepin County for pedestrian safety and traffic signal improvements on Broadway Street NE between Washington and Buchanan Streets NE. - Item 6: Authorize a cooperative agreement with Hennepin County Regional Railroad Authority for construction related to the Nicollet Avenue South bridge over the Midtown Greenway and concur with an engineer variance request from state aid operations rules for pedestrian improvements at Eighth Street SE and Tenth Avenue SE. - Item 8: Approve the phase‑1 concept layout and easements for the Logan Park industrial reconstruction project (Council President Payne spoke in support of separating the Quincy Street community‑engaged portion from other parts of the project). - Item 9: Pass a resolution supporting the Gold Line Bus Rapid Transit extension; Council President Payne noted the Gold Line opens in Saint Paul and Woodbury on March 22 and that Metro Transit seeks to extend the line to downtown Minneapolis by 2027. - Item 10: Set a public hearing for April 8 to receive public comment on the city's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) stormwater management program annual report. - Item 11: Receive and file an updated 2024–2025 committee work plan and a document listing Year 1 accomplishments.
The chair called for the vote; the ayes carried. No roll call tally is included in the transcript excerpt.
