# Minn. Stat. ch. 398A *Minnesota statute chapter under which the Dakota County Regional Railroad Authority is constituted.* Minnesota Statutes chapter 398A is the chapter under which the [[Dakota County Regional Railroad Authority]] is constituted, according to the project's at-issue entry AI-Dakota-060. The entry states that the authority holds its own taxing authority, separate from the county's. It also states that the authority's board is all seven Dakota County commissioners, who meet in that role as a different body.[^1] The same entry states that the authority sits on the corridor bodies for Cedar Avenue, Red Rock and Robert Street and on the Metropolitan Transitways Development Board. The entry sums up the arrangement as several boards with "one set of seven votes".[^1] The entry pairs this arrangement with a March 2025 presidential action on eliminating information silos. Its stated rationale is that overlapping governing bodies with identical membership "multiply authorities without multiplying accountability".[^1][^2] The pack carries no text of the chapter and no enactment or amendment history. It does not record who enacted the chapter, by party or date. It also carries no audit or independent evaluation of the authority's operations.[^1] ## Who The authority's board consists of the seven Dakota County commissioners, sitting as the board of a separate body.[^1] The pack names no individual commissioners and records no party affiliations or terms of service.[^1] ## What The entry gives chapter 398A as the statutory basis on which the Dakota County Regional Railroad Authority is constituted. It describes the authority as holding a taxing authority separate from the county board's, although the board's membership is the same.[^1] Through the authority, the same membership is seated on the Cedar Avenue, Red Rock and Robert Street corridor bodies and on the Metropolitan Transitways Development Board.[^1] ## How many The authority's board has seven members, the same seven who make up the Dakota County board of commissioners.[^1] The entry names four further bodies on which the authority sits: three corridor bodies (Cedar Avenue, Red Rock, Robert Street) and the Metropolitan Transitways Development Board.[^1] The pack does not give the total membership of those four bodies or the authority's share of their votes.[^1] ## In the at-issue record Entry AI-Dakota-060 is part of the project's Dakota package. It is drawn from the *Dakota Claims Exposure Matrix* (2026-09-02). The entry lists two underlying sources: a Dakota County self-published document (dakotacountymn.gov) and the statute text (revisor.mn.gov). Neither source's URL is carried in this pack.[^1] The entry's federal anchor is a White House presidential action of March 2025, *Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos*.[^2] The record shows that the entry pairs the authority's structure with that anchor. It does not show any federal finding or action directed at the authority.[^1][^2] The same matrix separately lists a 2024 Dakota County transportation sales tax report to the [[Legislature]]. The matrix describes it as a mandated report that the county published itself. The pack does not connect that report to the Regional Railroad Authority or to chapter 398A.[^3] ## Notes [^1]: Minnesota wiki at-issue record, *AI-Dakota-060* (Dakota package; from *Dakota Claims Exposure Matrix*, 2026-09-02) — states that the Dakota County Regional Railroad Authority is constituted under Minn. Stat. ch. 398A; that its board is all seven county commissioners holding a separate taxing authority; that it sits on the Cedar Avenue, Red Rock and Robert Street corridor bodies and the Metropolitan Transitways Development Board; and that its sources are a Dakota County self-published document and the statute, neither URL in this pack. The URL below is the entry's paired federal anchor, not the source of the county facts. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/stopping-waste-fraud-and-abuse-by-eliminating-information-silos/ [^2]: The White House, *Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos* (March 2025) — presidential action serving as the federal anchor of at-issue entry AI-Dakota-060. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/stopping-waste-fraud-and-abuse-by-eliminating-information-silos/ [^3]: Dakota County, *Dakota County transportation sales tax report to the Legislature* (2024) — mandated report, self-published; listed as entry E-D3 in the project's Dakota exposure matrix. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/docs/2024/mandated/240335.pdf