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The Executive Council is composed of Minnesota's five constitutional officers: the governor, the lieutenant governor, the secretary of state, the state auditor, and the attorney general. The governor, lieutenant governor, and the commissioner of the Department of Administration are ex officio chairperson, vice chairperson, and nonvoting ...
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The secretary of state is keeper of the Great Seal as prescribed by the Minnesota Constitution. [5] As such, the secretary of state files, certifies, and preserves in his or her office the enrolled laws of the Legislature, executive orders, commissions and proclamations issued by the governor, state agency rules, official oaths and bonds of state officials, and miscellaneous municipal boundary ...
The 2011 Minnesota state government shutdown was a government shutdown affecting the U.S. state of Minnesota. The shutdown was the result of a fiscal dispute between the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) Governor Mark Dayton and the Republican-majority Minnesota Legislature, that was not resolved by the constitutional deadline on June 30 ...
Executive Council: Advises the management and budget commissioner on the issuance of state debt, selects depository institutions for the safekeeping of state funds, coordinates emergency management statewide, approves timber harvests from state forests, rents and sells state lands, and acts as leasing agent for the state with regard to dams ...
The counties of the Metropolitan Council are the seven most densely-populated in the state. The Met Council has 17 members, 16 of whom represent a geographic district in the seven-county area with one chair who serves at large. All members are appointed by the Governor of Minnesota and are reappointed with each new governor in office. [2]
An executive council is a constitutional organ found in a number of Commonwealth countries, where it exercises executive power and (notionally) advises the governor, governor-general, or lieutenant governor, and will typically enact decisions through an Order in Council.
Republican Party of Minnesota: From November 15, 1975 to September 23, 1995 the name of the state Republican party was the Independent-Republican party (I-R). The party has always been affiliated with the national Republican Party. In 1913, Minnesota legislators began to be elected on nonpartisan ballots.