Welcome to Minnesota House Live Webcast and Mobile Streaming

Overview of MRPC Budget 

Overview of LCC 

Gaps in LCC Tasks 

• Maps
• IC/VCB/river community partnerships

Discussion on MRPC Marketing 

• Review need to contract for marketing staff
• Potential marketing/social media partnerships
• Potential partnerships (Mississippi Headwaters Board) Recommendation on marketing to full MN-MRPC 

Develop recommendation to MN-MRPC

Review Mississippi River Day proclamation/resolution 

Adjourn

Public viewing is available on YouTube.

1. Roll call attendance

2. Approve minutes for December 10, 2025
    - Minutes from December 10, 2025

3. Welcome new and reappointed members

4. Members report potential conflicts of interest regarding today's business
    - LCCMR COI Policy
    - Members COIs 2026 Recommended Projects
    - Members COIs 2027 Proposals

5. Director's Report
    - 2027 RFP by the Numbers

6. Information and possible discussion: 2026 Session Report
    - M.L. 2026 Session Report
    - M.L. 2026 Appropriations Spreadsheet
    - M.L. 2026 Appropriations and Process Summary
    - M.L. 2026, Chp. 104 Language

7. Action: Operational Procedures Update
    a. Emerging Issues Account
    b. Conflict of Interest
    - Operational Procedures Draft Update 6/17/26
    - Conflict of Interest Guidance Draft 6/17/26

8. Update from DNR on ENRTF Community Grant Program
Katherine Sherman Hoehn, DNR Grants Manager, and Gwendolyn Tweed, ENRTF Community Grant Program Supervisor
    - 116X ENRTF Community Grant Program Statute
    - Community Grant DNR PowerPoint

9. Action: Emerging Issues Account (EIA) presentation and funding recommendations
    - EIA 2026 Round 1 Member Selections for Presentation
    - EIA policy approved 12-10-2025
    - EIA 2026 Round 1 Request and Funding Balance

    a. U of MN, Freeing Minnesota Biosolids of Their PFAS Burden, $882,000, Matt Simcik
    - Simcik EIA Proposal
    - Simcik EIA Proposal Presentation

    b. U of MN, Trifluoroacetic Acid in Minnesota Waters: Levels and Formation, $338,000, Bill Arnold
    - Arnold EIA Proposal

10. Action: Workplans for projects funded in M.L. 2026
    a. Approve consent agenda
    b. Non-Consent items
    - Workplan for 2026-282
    c. Plan for remaining work plans
    - Spreadsheet with M.L. 2026 work plans and conditions (updated X/XX/XX X pm)
    - Link to 2026 work plans

Lunch at 12:00 p.m.

11. Action: Discuss and approve selection of 2027 (FY28) Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund proposals for further consideration and presentation
    a. The top 91 (rounded for any ties) proposals determined by tallying individual member selections
    b. 9 additional proposals selected: 3 each by House, Senate, and Citizens
    c. Possible additional adjustments
    - Memo on discussing and selecting 2027 RFP proposals for further consideration and presentation
    - Member Compiled Evaluation #1: 2027 RFP (FY28) as of June XX, 2026

12. Action: Continuation of proposal evaluation and recommendation process for 2027 RFP: Evaluation #2 and decision-making process
    - Memo- Part 2 of 2027 RFP proposal evaluation and recommendation process
    - Example of Last Year's Compiled Results from Evaluation #2

13. Subcommittee on Allowable Expenses
    a. Nominations and Appointments
    b. Meeting schedule
    - Guidance on Allowable Expenses

14. LCCMR other business
    a. Next meetings
        1) Executive Committee
        2) Subcommittee
        3) Full Commission

15. Public testimony
The public is asked to keep their comments brief. If you would like to testify, please contact Diana Griffith at diana.griffith@lccmr.mn.gov by 4:00 pm the day before the meeting. Please specify to which agenda item your testimony relates and the form of your testimony (oral or written). The chair will accommodate testimony at the requested agenda item as time allows.

16. Adjourn

TBD

1. Reintroduction of Members and Staff
2. Review of Open Meeting Law, Data Practices Act, Data Practices Policies, and Ex Parte Communication
3. Overview of LCC's Office of Inspector General (OIG) Data
4. Presentation by Minnesota Management and Budget on OIG
5. Discussion on OIG Salary Recommendation
6. Presentation by Minnesota District Judges Association (MDJA)
7. Overview of LCC's Judicial Data
8. Council Discussion and Future Meetings

TBD