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Hennepin County Regional Railroad Authority
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- Type
- Development authority — Regional railroad authority organised under Minnesota Statutes chapter 398A as a political subdivision and local government unit of the state; a funder of rail projects rather than a buyer of rail work
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- United States · Minnesota
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Hennepin County rail authority holds power to plan and operate railroads, owns 40 miles of corridors.
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Holds the statutory power at Minnesota Statutes section 398A.04 to plan, acquire, construct, maintain, equip and operate railroads and railroad facilities within its jurisdiction, and to make grants or otherwise appropriate funds to the Department of Transportation, the Metropolitan Council or any other state or local governmental unit for railroad purposes, whether or not the facilities will be owned or operated by the authority. It may not expend state or federal funds on light rail or commuter rail planning or development except consistently with plans adopted by MnDOT under section 174.84 and by the Metropolitan Council under section 473.399 and under a memorandum of understanding with the commissioner. The authority states that it was established in 1980, that its board is the seven members of the Hennepin County Board of Commissioners, and that it owns 40 miles of corridors and seven sites suitable for future park-and-rides, stations or transit-oriented development. Its published 2026 budget is $34.1 million with a property tax levy of $34,000,000 - a budget, not a contract figure.
- Type
- Development authority — Regional railroad authority organised under Minnesota Statutes chapter 398A as a political subdivision and local government unit of the state; a funder of rail projects rather than a buyer of rail work
- Where
- Minnesota · Minneapolis
- Technology areas
- Track & civil
Structure
- funds Met Council — Funder of the Metropolitan Council's light rail extensions under Minnesota Statutes section 398A.04; the authority publishes a total project contribution to the METRO Green Line Extension and to the METRO Blue Line Extension (active)
- Contract detail and values (1)$100–500mIn the United States edition See a fully open example
Sources for these relationships (6)
- ● Metropolitan Council · Business Item 2025-187 — METRO Blue Line Extension – Kimley-Horn Amendment, Contract 22P103A; Metropolitan Council meeting of 2025-11-12. Increases the contract value by $42,900,000 for a total not-to-exceed $139,275,448; the committee record states that the funds are flowing from Hennepin County to the Council. (published 2025-11-12 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Hennepin County · Regional railroad authority - the Hennepin County Regional Railroad Authority's own page on the county website (HTML, 27,095 bytes gzip-compressed on 14 September 2026 to a request carrying the full browser header set; a plain curl with a user-agent string alone is answered HTTP 403). Publishes the authority's establishment in 1980 as a political subdivision and local government unit of Minnesota, its board as the seven members of the Hennepin County Board of Commissioners, its ownership of 40 miles of corridors and seven sites, its 2026 budget of $34.1 million with a property tax levy of $34 million, its budget schedules for 2024, 2025 and 2026, its land-use permit route, and two contact desks (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Hennepin County Regional Railroad Authority · 2026 Hennepin County Regional Railroad Authority (HCRRA) Budget, Schedule I: Budget summary (PDF, 1 page, 86,262 bytes) - 2026 Proposed budgeted property taxes $33,064,104 and revenues $34,064,104 against 2025 Adjusted $34,136,313; HCRRA Property Tax Levy $34,000,000 in both years; levy by fund Operations (Fund 85) $8,002,147, Debt Service (Fund 86) $9,265,200, Special Projects (Fund 87) $16,732,653 (published 2025-12 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Hennepin County Regional Railroad Authority · Schedule II: 2026 Capital Budget and 2026-2030 Capital Improvement Program (PDF, 18 pages, 1,905,658 bytes) - project 1000899 'RRA: METRO Green Line Extension Light Rail Transit' and project 1000941 'RRA: METRO Blue Line Extension Light Rail Transit', each with its revenue and expense table, its stated total project contribution and the project's full funding split; the remaining projects are RRA: Capital Reserve, RRA: Dakota Corridor - Arcola Bridge and seven Midtown Greenway bridge projects under HCRRA Capital - Corridor Investments (published 2025-12 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Office of the Legislative Auditor, State of Minnesota · Financial Audit Division, Performance Audit: Metropolitan Council — Southwest Light Rail Transit Construction, April 2025 (PDF, 48 pages, 3,492,439 bytes), transmittal dated 7 April 2025, covering the period 1 January 2019 through 31 March 2023 Byte counts in this register are gzip transfer sizes; the server's content-length for this PDF is 3,660,150 bytes. (published 2025-04-07 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Office of the Revisor of Statutes, State of Minnesota · 2025 Minnesota Statutes section 398A.04, Powers of a regional railroad authority: subdivision 1(4) empowers an authority to 'make grants or otherwise appropriate funds to the Department of Transportation, the Metropolitan Council, or any other state or local governmental unit' for railroad purposes within its jurisdiction; subdivision 2 empowers it to plan, acquire, construct, maintain and operate railroads and railroad facilities, and bars it from expending state or federal funds on light rail or commuter rail planning or development except consistently with plans adopted under sections 174.84 and 473.399 and under a memorandum of understanding with the commissioner (published 2025 · checked 2026-09-14)
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- ● Office of the Revisor of Statutes, State of Minnesota · 2025 Minnesota Statutes section 398A.04, Powers of a regional railroad authority: subdivision 1(4) empowers an authority to 'make grants or otherwise appropriate funds to the Department of Transportation, the Metropolitan Council, or any other state or local governmental unit' for railroad purposes within its jurisdiction; subdivision 2 empowers it to plan, acquire, construct, maintain and operate railroads and railroad facilities, and bars it from expending state or federal funds on light rail or commuter rail planning or development except consistently with plans adopted under sections 174.84 and 473.399 and under a memorandum of understanding with the commissioner (published 2025 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Office of the Revisor of Statutes, State of Minnesota · 2025 Minnesota Statutes section 398A.03, Organization of a regional railroad authority — an authority is organized by resolution of one or more county governing bodies as 'a political subdivision and local government unit of Minnesota, to exercise thereunder part of the sovereign power of the state' (published 2025 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Office of the Legislative Auditor, State of Minnesota · Financial Audit Division, Performance Audit: Metropolitan Council — Southwest Light Rail Transit Construction, April 2025 (PDF, 48 pages, 3,492,439 bytes), transmittal dated 7 April 2025, covering the period 1 January 2019 through 31 March 2023 Byte counts in this register are gzip transfer sizes; the server's content-length for this PDF is 3,660,150 bytes. (published 2025-04-07 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Minnesota Department of Transportation · Borealis — daily St. Paul–Milwaukee–Chicago round trip begun 21 May 2024 over part of the 411-mile Empire Builder corridor; capital funding of a $31.8 million FRA CRISI grant of September 2020 with $5 million from Amtrak, $11.8 million from MnDOT and $6.5 million from WisDOT; operating support of a $12.6 million FRA Restoration & Enhancement grant of May 2020 and a second of $38.6 million in January 2025; project schedule with final design 2021-2026 and construction 2026-2028 (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Metropolitan Council · Business Item 2025-187 — METRO Blue Line Extension – Kimley-Horn Amendment, Contract 22P103A; Metropolitan Council meeting of 2025-11-12. Increases the contract value by $42,900,000 for a total not-to-exceed $139,275,448; the committee record states that the funds are flowing from Hennepin County to the Council. (published 2025-11-12 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Hennepin County · Regional railroad authority - the Hennepin County Regional Railroad Authority's own page on the county website (HTML, 27,095 bytes gzip-compressed on 14 September 2026 to a request carrying the full browser header set; a plain curl with a user-agent string alone is answered HTTP 403). Publishes the authority's establishment in 1980 as a political subdivision and local government unit of Minnesota, its board as the seven members of the Hennepin County Board of Commissioners, its ownership of 40 miles of corridors and seven sites, its 2026 budget of $34.1 million with a property tax levy of $34 million, its budget schedules for 2024, 2025 and 2026, its land-use permit route, and two contact desks (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Hennepin County Regional Railroad Authority · 2026 Hennepin County Regional Railroad Authority (HCRRA) Budget, Schedule I: Budget summary (PDF, 1 page, 86,262 bytes) - 2026 Proposed budgeted property taxes $33,064,104 and revenues $34,064,104 against 2025 Adjusted $34,136,313; HCRRA Property Tax Levy $34,000,000 in both years; levy by fund Operations (Fund 85) $8,002,147, Debt Service (Fund 86) $9,265,200, Special Projects (Fund 87) $16,732,653 (published 2025-12 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Hennepin County Regional Railroad Authority · Schedule II: 2026 Capital Budget and 2026-2030 Capital Improvement Program (PDF, 18 pages, 1,905,658 bytes) - project 1000899 'RRA: METRO Green Line Extension Light Rail Transit' and project 1000941 'RRA: METRO Blue Line Extension Light Rail Transit', each with its revenue and expense table, its stated total project contribution and the project's full funding split; the remaining projects are RRA: Capital Reserve, RRA: Dakota Corridor - Arcola Bridge and seven Midtown Greenway bridge projects under HCRRA Capital - Corridor Investments (published 2025-12 · checked 2026-09-14)
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