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New Met Council Chairperson Adam Duininck on mass transit goals

Met Council Chair Adam Duininck
Met Council Chair Adam Duininck discussed Gov. Mark Dayton's transit proposal on Jan. 26, 2015.
Tom Scheck | MPR News

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Metropolitan Council's new Chairperson Adam Duininck is the first full-time leader of the agency, which coordinates housing, transit and waste water policies for the seven-county Twin Cities metro area.

He joined MPR News with Tom Weber to talk about his top priorities.

From MPR News' Tom Scheck:

Gov. Mark Dayton on Friday appointed Adam Duininck, a member of the Met Council for the last four years, as its chairperson. Duininck succeeds Sue Haigh, who left at the end of Dayton's first term. He will earn an annual salary of $145,000 and will become the first full-time chairperson in the council's 48-year history.

Duininck is taking the job as the Legislature prepares to increase its scrutiny of the Met Council, which in 2015 has an operating budget is $936 million.