15 West Kellogg Blvd.  
Saint Paul, MN 55102  
City of Saint Paul  
Minutes - Final  
Legislative Hearings  
Marcia Moermond, Legislative Hearing Officer  
Mai Vang, Hearing Coordinator  
Joanna Zimny, Executive Assistant  
legislativehearings@ci.stpaul.mn.us  
651-266-8585  
Thursday, July 24, 2025  
9:00 AM  
Room 330 City Hall & Court House/Remote  
Delinquent Garbage Assessments  
9:00 a.m. Hearings  
Special Tax Assessments  
1
RLH TA 25-333  
Ratifying the Appealed Special Tax Assessment for property at 782  
SIMS AVENUE. (File No. CG2503A2 , Assessment No. 250117)  
Yang  
Sponsors:  
Reduce assessment from $152.32 to $125.  
Stephanie Pruitt, owner, appeared via phone  
[Moermond gives background of appeals process]  
Staff report by Jillian Barden: the property owner requested a hearing to dispute the  
extra bag charges because she asked for a larger cart January 27th and the swap  
didn’t occur. The extra bag charges occurred October 3, 2024 and were invoiced on the  
Quarter 1, 2025 bill.  
Pruitt: I requested larger receptacle. I’m on a fixed income. I piecework projects around  
the house together. They were supposed to drop it off on Thursday they didn’t. They  
are saying I didn’t pay a bill in the amount of $154, and Waste Management’s website  
was down and I couldn’t get through to anyone. I couldn’t access anything. When it was  
finally back up and running my bill was listed at $0. When I did finally talk to them they  
just told me Waste Management no longer servicing St. Paul. They said I had to  
contact the City and hung up. I was never aware of an outstanding balance with Waste  
Management. I don’t believe it is ethically appropriate for them to not have given me  
full disclosure in what happened to the bill. It isn’t appropriate to be brought into this  
level of hearing over a bill that I was going to pay and wasn’t able to, then was told I  
didn’t owe anything. I believe there are standards within the Board of Commerce  
against these unethical practices.  
Moermond: First an explanation, when Waste Management goes for a full quarter, say  
January – March and the bill doesn’t get paid it gets sent to the City for assessment.  
The accounts are cleared out, and on top of that their contract with the City ended. I’ll  
recommend the late charges are removed, $25, and get your bill down to $125.  
Referred to the City Council due back on 8/13/2025  
2
RLH TA 25-342  
Deleting the Appealed Special Tax Assessment for property at 2319  
STANDISH STREET. (File No. CG2503A2, Assessment No. 250117)  
Privratsky  
Sponsors:  
Delete the assessment.  
No one appeared  
Staff report by Jillian Barden: property owner says Aspen agreed to remove the late fee  
and Aspen forgot to process the removal and Aspen will reach out to the City to  
remove the fee. That didn’t happen. Staff attempted to contact Aspen Waste on two  
separate occasions and got no response. Staff recommends removing the  
assessment.  
Moermond: the owner is Wibur Purcell and Nancy, his daughter, reached out to the  
City explaining what happened. Staff reached out to the hauler with no response.  
Recommend deletion of the assessment.  
Referred to the City Council due back on 8/13/2025  
3
RLH TA 25-341  
Deleting the Appealed Special Tax Assessment for property at 560  
WHITE BEAR AVENUE NORTH. (File No. CG2503A2, Assessment No.  
250117)  
Johnson  
Sponsors:  
Delete the assessment.  
No one appeared  
Moermond: property owner talked to Republic, you did as well?  
Staff report by Jillian Barden: property owner submitted a Temporary service hold  
January 30, 2025 to pause garbage service from February 3 to April 30, 2025.  
Republic did not acknowledge receiving the hold and charged the PO for service for  
the whole quarter and assessed the PO for 44.27 (after the $40 payment in Jan was  
applied). When an assessment inquiry was submitted to Republic asking for more  
information about the service hold, they said we could remove the assessment if  
Public Works have a copy of the email sent to Republic Services, which we do have.  
Staff recommends removing assessment.  
Moermond: recommend deletion.  
Referred to the City Council due back on 8/13/2025