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Council outlines DBE implementation steps and flags HRA payment-standard pressures

Metropolitan Council · October 22, 2025
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Summary

Council staff said they are implementing changes to comply with the U.S. DOT interim DBE rule and put the issue in an incident-command structure; council members reported rising rent pressures and upcoming decisions on HRA payment standards.

At the Oct. 22 Metropolitan Council meeting staff described ongoing work to respond to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s interim final rule on Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) regulations and reported a related internal incident-command structure to coordinate the council’s response.

Regional Administrator and staff said the council has been operating under an incident command…

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