# Dakota County Regional Railroad Authority *Minnesota county-level regional railroad authority whose governing board is the Dakota County Board of Commissioners.* The Dakota County Regional Railroad Authority is a county-level agency constituted under [[Minn. Stat. ch. 398A]]. The project's at-issue catalogue records that its board is all seven Dakota County commissioners: the same persons who sit as the county board, meeting as a different body and holding a separate taxing authority.[^1] The same catalogue item records that the authority sits on the Cedar Avenue, Red Rock and Robert Street corridor bodies and on the Metropolitan Transitways Development Board.[^1] The record carried here shows this membership overlap. It does not establish the authority's budget, its levy, or why the structure was adopted.[^1] ## Who According to the catalogue item, the authority's governing board consists of the seven members of the Dakota County Board of Commissioners. The item lists the authority's seats on the Cedar Avenue, Red Rock and Robert Street corridor bodies and on the Metropolitan Transitways Development Board. Through those seats, the seven commissioners are represented on each of these bodies.[^1] ## In the at-issue record The authority is the subject of one at-issue item, AI-Dakota-060, drawn from the project's *Dakota Claims Exposure Matrix* (2 September 2026). The item lists its underlying sources as a statute (revisor.mn.gov) and a self-published county source (dakotacountymn.gov).[^1] The catalogue pairs the item with a March 2025 White House presidential action concerning waste, fraud and abuse and the elimination of information silos.[^1] ## Notes [^1]: Project at-issue catalogue, item AI-Dakota-060, from *Dakota Claims Exposure Matrix* (2 September 2026) — records the authority's constitution under Minn. Stat. ch. 398A, its seven-commissioner board and separate taxing authority, and its corridor-body and Metropolitan Transitways Development Board seats. The row's sources are listed as revisor.mn.gov and dakotacountymn.gov. The only URL carried for the row is its anchor, a White House presidential action (March 2025), which establishes the pairing only. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/stopping-waste-fraud-and-abuse-by-eliminating-information-silos/