Central Corridor

Please vote for me November 2 for your West Side/downtown/Fort Road House Rep.
I will represent your views on Central Corridor and help end this potential
nightmare which will congest, pollute, and eventually bring more crime as yet
more retail flees, just as the progressive agenda and big downtown employers
expect.

Here is some background info which most of you already know.

http://www.stpaul.gov/index.aspx?NID=3881

http://www.stpaul.gov/index.aspx?NID=3430

[corrected links from http://forums.e-democracy.org/r/post/5Z3AgTuU7QvAPBi8xyHd4U]

History of Met Council.
Started as regional Waste Water planning and management entity in late 60's or
early 70's.

The 2008 Transportation Finance Bill created the Counties Transit Improvement
Board (as a Joint Powers Agreement entity, defined in Minnesota statute with
questionable tax authority) and the Grant Evaluation and Ranking System (GEARS)
committee under the Met Council.

Voluntary members of the Met Council's CTIB: Anoka, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey
and Washington Counties.
Carver County and Scott County, chose not to join CTIB.
Generally a county board resolution is needed to join.
[corrected from http://forums.e-democracy.org/r/post/5Z3AgTuU7QvAPBi8xyHd4U]

Among the Counties Transit Improvement Board members:
Ramsey County
Commissioner Jan Parker
Commissioner Jim McDonough
Commissioner
Victoria Reinhardt

For membership, the people you represent get to share the cost of transit.
The Met Council's Counties Transit Improvement Board involves city
"representatives" like St. Paul City Council member Russ Stark as members of
GEARS - whose city interests are opposite of those interests of the 5 county
regional board.

Grant Evaluation and Ranking System (GEARS) committee in Anoka, Dakota,
Hennepin, Ramsey and Washington Counties. The 2008 Transportation Finance.
Voluntary members of the Met Council's GEARS:

Council member Russ Stark
City of Saint Paul
Ramsey County Commissioner
Toni Carter
Commissioner
Victoria Reinhardt


The council members should be protecting St. Paul residents from the Met
Council and it's Counties Transit Improvement Board, instead city council
member Stark is applying for membership in the Met Council's
GEARS, and submitting to screening at the League of MN Cities on University
Avenue.

http://www.leg.state.mn.us/docs/2010/mandated/100155.pdf


Jamie Delton
Candidate, House Rep, West Side/downtown/Fort Road,
and a portion of Summit University
http://www.jamieforstaterep.com/