Metropolitan Council abolishment

SF 1243 would abolish Minnesota's Metropolitan Council, the regional governing body for the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. It transfers the Council's duties - including land use planning, transportation functions, and oversight of the Metropolitan Airports Commission - to other state agencies like the commissioners of administration and natural resources, and the Department of Transportation. The bill also creates a new metropolitan area sanitary sewer district and repeals the Council's land use planning authority. These changes would directly affect the Council's operations and the agencies assuming its responsibilities.