Relating to the metropolitan council; requiring the immediate filling+ of vacancies in offices of council members, authorizing the governor to +forgo the nominating committee and public meeting requirements for filling +vacancies under certain conditions; authorizing and providing for the council +to use energy forward pricing mechanisms for budget risk reduction purposes,+ defining forward pricing mechanism as contracts or financial instruments +obligating entities to buy or sell a specified amount of an energy commodity at +a future date and a set price or an option to buy or sell the contract or +instrument, specifying certain conditions, policies and procedures development +and oversight process establishment requirements for use of the +mechanisms; requiring the long range comprehensive policy plan for +transportation, airports and wastewater treatment to include the estimated costs of +improvements required to regional system goals and the plan for regional +recreation open space to estimate the cost of the recommended acquisitions and +development; authorizing local government units to challenge council actions +relating to local comprehensive plans and capital improvement programs; +eliminating compensation for metropolitan parks and open space commission +members; authorizing and providing for direct charging by the council of +industrial dischargers for certain wastewater treatment user fees; adopting a +certain metropolitan council redistricting plan on file with the geographical information systems office of the legislative coordinating commission+ (LCC); requiring the revisor of statutes to prepare a metes and bounds +description of metropolitan districts for publication and filing purposes; repealing+ certain council service improvement requirements, a certain obsolete +requirement for metropolitan school districts to submit capital improvement plans to +the council for review and certain metropolitan agency financial +reporting requirements (ra) (ra)