City Hall and Court House  
15 West Kellogg  
Boulevard  
City of Saint Paul  
Council Chambers - 3rd  
Floor  
Meeting Agenda  
City Council  
651-266-8560  
Council President Amy Brendmoen  
Councilmember Russel Balenger  
Councilmember Mitra Jalali  
Councilmember Rebecca Noecker  
Councilmember Jane L. Prince  
Councilmember Chris Tolbert  
Councilmember Nelsie Yang  
Wednesday, March 8, 2023  
ROLL CALL  
3:30 PM  
Council Chambers - 3rd Floor  
COMMUNICATIONS & RECEIVE/FILE  
1
Amending CDBG Project Budgets: Funding for North End Community  
Center project.  
Attachments:  
2
Amending the 2023 spending budget for the Office of Financial  
Empowerment to reallocate budgeted amounts from services budget to  
personnel.  
Attachments:  
3
Amending CDBG Project Budgets: Funding for Nanny's Jamaican Kitchen,  
a project selected by CDBG subgrantee ESNDC for their North End  
Façade Improvement Program (NEFIP).  
Attachments:  
CONSENT AGENDA  
Items listed under the Consent Agenda will be enacted by one motion with no separate  
discussion. If discussion on an item is desired, the item will be removed from the Consent  
Agenda for separate consideration.  
4
Approving the application with conditions, per the Legislative Hearing  
Officer, for P & S Enterprises Inc (License ID# 20220000638), d/b/a Haas  
Collision & Glass, for an Auto Body Repair/Painting Shop license located  
at 1400 St Clair Avenue.  
Sponsors:  
Tolbert  
Attachments:  
5
6
7
Approving the City’s cost of providing Collection of Vacant Building  
Registration fees billed during August 11 to November 16, 2022, and  
setting date of Legislative Hearing for April 4, 2023 and City Council public  
hearing for May 17, 2023 to consider and levy the assessments against  
individual properties. (File No. VB2307, Assessment No. 238806)  
Sponsors:  
Brendmoen  
Attachments:  
Approving the City’s cost of providing Securing and/or Emergency  
Boarding services during December 2022, and setting date of Legislative  
Hearing for April 4, 2023 and City Council public hearing for May 17, 2023  
to consider and levy the assessments against individual properties. (File  
No. J2307B, Assessment No. 238106)  
Sponsors:  
Brendmoen  
Attachments:  
Approving the City’s cost of providing Demolition services from November  
2022, and setting date of Legislative Hearing for April 4, 2023 and City  
Council public hearing for May 17, 2023 to consider and levy the  
assessments against individual properties. (File No. J2303C, Assessment  
No. 232002)  
Sponsors:  
Brendmoen  
Attachments:  
8
Approving the City’s cost of providing Collection of Fire Certificate Of  
Occupancy fees billed during October 25 to November 27, 2022, and  
setting date of Legislative Hearing for April 4, 2023 and City Council public  
hearing for May 17, 2023 to consider and levy the assessments against  
individual properties. (File No. CRT2306, Assessment No. 238205)  
Sponsors:  
Brendmoen  
Attachments:  
9
Approving the City’s cost of providing Excessive USe of Inspection or  
Abatement services billed during October 24 to November 21, 2022, and  
setting date of Legislative Hearing for April 4, 2023 and City Council public  
hearing for May 17, 2023 to consider and levy the assessments against  
individual properties. (File No. J2307E, Assessment No. 238306)  
Sponsors:  
Brendmoen  
Attachments:  
10  
Approving the City’s cost of providing Removal of Diseased and/or  
Dangerous Tree(s) during January 2023, and setting date of Legislative  
Hearing for April 4, 2023 and City Council public hearing for May 17, 2023  
to consider and levy the assessments against individual properties. (File  
No. 2306T, Assessment No. 239005)  
Sponsors:  
Brendmoen  
Attachments:  
11  
Authorizing the issuance and sale of Water Revenue Bonds, Series  
2023A; awarding the sale thereof to the purchaser named herein; and  
fixing the form and specifications of the Water Revenue Bonds, Series  
2023A and providing the requirement for future parity water revenue bonds.  
Sponsors:  
Brendmoen  
Attachments:  
12  
Preliminary Order setting the date of Public Hearing for April 12, 2023 to  
consider approval of the 2023 Saint Paul Streets Program (2023 SPS).  
Sponsors:  
Noecker  
Attachments:  
13  
14  
15  
16  
Approving the City’s cost of providing Collection of Delinquent Garbage  
Bills for service during October to December 2022, and setting date of  
legislative hearing for April 6, 2023 and City Council public hearing for May  
24, 2023 to consider and levy the assessments against individual  
properties. (File No. CG2301A1, Assessment No. 230105)  
Sponsors:  
Brendmoen  
Attachments:  
Approving the City’s cost of providing Collection of Delinquent Garbage  
Bills for service during October to December 2022, and setting date of  
legislative hearing for April 6, 2023 and City Council public hearing for May  
24, 2023 to consider and levy the assessments against individual  
properties. (File No. CG2301A2, Assessment No. 230106)  
Sponsors:  
Brendmoen  
Attachments:  
Approving the City’s cost of providing Collection of Delinquent Garbage  
Bills for service during October to December 2022, and setting date of  
legislative hearing for April 6, 2023 and City Council public hearing for May  
24, 2023 to consider and levy the assessments against individual  
properties. (File No. CG2301A3, Assessment No. 230107)  
Sponsors:  
Brendmoen  
Attachments:  
Amending the financing and spending plans in the Office of Financial  
Empowerment in the amount of $400,000 to correct grant carry forward in  
the 2023 adopted budget.  
Sponsors:  
Brendmoen  
Attachments:  
17  
18  
Authorizing the Police Department to submit an application for funds under  
the 2023 State of Minnesota Homeland Security Program - Bomb Grant.  
Sponsors:  
Brendmoen  
Authorizing specific expenditures for employees involved in the winter  
snow event beginning February 21 going through February 25, 2023 in the  
2023 spending budget of the Department of Public Works Winter Street  
Maintenance accounting unit.  
Sponsors:  
Brendmoen  
Attachments:  
19  
Approving Ordinance Permit 20220010208 for Roadway Sidewalk  
Infrastructure installed by Project Paul, LLC (a wholly-owned subsidiary of  
Ryan Companies US, Inc.) (“Ryan”) on the Ford (Highland Bridge) Site, for  
sidewalk and boulevard work at the following locations: on the east side of  
Mount Curve Boulevard from Bohland Avenue to the north right-of-way line  
of Village Way, District 15, Ward 3.  
Sponsors:  
Tolbert  
Attachments:  
20  
21  
22  
Memorializing denial of an appeal by Tom Dimond from to a decision of  
the Board of Zoning Appeals which denied an administrative appeal  
alleging Zoning Administrator error in denying a “stop work order” request  
regarding the island building work in Pigs Eye Lake.  
Sponsors:  
Brendmoen  
Authorizing the City to enter into and execute a Cooperative Funding  
Agreement for Rice Street and Larpenteur Avenue Gateway Alliance  
Consulting Services with the City of Roseville and the City of Maplewood in  
accordance with the Rice-Larpenteur Vision Plan.  
Sponsors:  
Brendmoen  
Approving the application with no conditions, per the Legislative Hearing  
Officer, for The Lift Garage (License ID# 20220002172), d/b/a The Lift, for  
an Auto Repair Garage license located at 1669 University Avenue West.  
Sponsors:  
Jalali  
Attachments:  
23  
24  
Memorializing the City Council’s decision to deny an appeal from a  
decision of the Board of Zoning Appeals to deny a 10-foot lot-width  
variance for the purpose of splitting property commonly known as 1841  
Lincoln Avenue into two lots.  
Sponsors:  
Brendmoen  
Approving the minutes of the Saint Paul City Council meetings of March 2,  
9, 16, and 23, 2022.  
Sponsors:  
Brendmoen  
Attachments:  
25  
Establishing the rate of pay for Solid Waste Services Worker in Grade 012  
of EG 71, LIUNA City Employees Local #363.  
Sponsors:  
Brendmoen  
Attachments:  
FOR DISCUSSION  
26  
Honoring the life of Xe Xiong and proclaiming Saturday, March 11, 2023,  
as Xe Xiong Day in the City of Saint Paul.  
Sponsors:  
Yang  
Sponsors:  
Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Ecolab.  
27  
Noecker and Prince  
ORDINANCES  
An ordinance is a city law enacted by the City Council. It is read at three separate council  
meetings and becomes effective after passage by the Council and 30 days after publication in  
the Saint Paul Pioneer Press. Public hearings on ordinances are generally held at the first  
reading.  
PUBLIC HEARINGS  
Live testimony is limited to two minutes for each person. See below for optional ways to  
testify.  
28  
Granting the application of William Janicke to rezone property at 869  
Arkwright St from RT1 two-family residential to RT2 townhouse residential  
and amending Chapter 60 of the Legislative Code pertaining to the zoning  
map.  
Sponsors:  
Brendmoen  
Attachments:  
29  
Approving the application of University of St. Thomas, Erin Whipkey,  
Campus Life for a sound level variance in order to present amplified sound  
on May 12, 2023 at 2115 Summit Avenue, University of Saint Thomas,  
Lower Quad.  
Sponsors:  
Jalali  
Attachments:  
30  
Approving the applications of the Minnesota United FC for sound level  
variance applications in order to present amplified sound on April 15, 2023  
and on April 30, 2023 within the Street and the Beer Garden Area at  
Allianz Field - 400 Snelling Ave. N.  
Sponsors:  
Balenger  
Attachments:  
31  
Authorizing the Department of Safety and Inspections to accept a grant in  
the amount of $65,000 from the Minnesota Department of Labor, to  
participate in the 2023 Building Official Training (BOT) grant program.  
Brendmoen  
Sponsors:  
Attachments:  
LEGISLATIVE HEARING CONSENT AGENDA  
Items listed under the Consent Agenda will receive a combined public hearing and be enacted  
by one motion with no separate discussion. Items may be removed from the Consent Agenda  
for a separate public hearing and discussion if desired.  
32  
Ratifying the Appealed Special Tax Assessment for property at 435  
ARBOR STREET (File No. CG2204A1, Assessment No. 220113)  
Sponsors:  
Noecker  
Attachments:  
33  
Ratifying the Appealed Special Tax Assessment for property at 938  
ARKWRIGHT STREET. (File No. VB2304A, Assessment No. 238810)  
Sponsors:  
Brendmoen  
Attachments:  
34  
35  
36  
Deleting the Appealed Special Tax Assessment for property at 287  
ATWATER STREET. (File No. CG2204A2, Assessment No. 220114)  
Sponsors:  
Balenger  
Attachments:  
Ratifying the Appealed Special Tax Assessment for property at 327-329  
AURORA AVENUE. (File No. CG2204A3, Assessment No. 220115)  
Sponsors:  
Balenger  
Attachments:  
Making finding on the appealed nuisance abatement ordered for 779  
CENTRAL AVENUE WEST in Council File RLH SAO 23-4. (Amend:  
Nuisance is abated)  
Sponsors:  
Balenger  
Attachments:  
37  
Ratifying the Appealed Special Tax Assessment for property at 1153  
CENTRAL AVENUE WEST. (File No. CG2204A3, Assessment No.  
220115)  
Sponsors:  
Balenger  
Attachments:  
38  
Appeal of Leah Frenning to a Vacant Building Registration Notice at 640  
CHARLES AVENUE.  
Sponsors:  
Balenger  
Attachments:  
39  
40  
Deleting the Appealed Special Tax Assessment for property at 1302  
CLEVELAND AVENUE SOUTH. (File No. CG2204A1, Assessment No.  
220113)  
Sponsors:  
Tolbert  
Attachments:  
Ratifying the Appealed Special Tax Assessment for property at 308  
COMO AVENUE (File No. CG2204A3, Assessment No. 220115)  
Sponsors:  
Balenger  
Attachments:  
41  
42  
Ratifying the Appealed Special Tax Assessment for property at 1771  
DAYTON AVENUE. (File No. CG2204A3, Assessment No. 220115)  
Sponsors:  
Jalali  
Attachments:  
Ratifying the Appealed Special Tax Assessment for property at 1231  
FARRINGTON STREET (File No. CG2204A1, Assessment No. 220113)  
Sponsors:  
Brendmoen  
Attachments:  
43  
Deleting the Appealed Special Tax Assessment for property at 130  
LEXINGTON PARKWAY NORTH. (File No. CG2204A3, Assessment No.  
220115)  
Sponsors:  
Balenger  
Attachments:  
44  
Deleting the Appealed Special Tax Assessment for property at 2171  
MOHAWK AVENUE. (File No. CG2204A1, Assessment No. 220113)  
Sponsors:  
Yang  
Attachments:  
45  
Ratifying the Appealed Special Tax Assessment for property at 802  
MOUND STREET (File No. CG2203A3-1, Assessment No. 220116)  
Sponsors:  
Prince  
Attachments:  
46  
Ratifying the Appealed Special Tax Assessment for property at 884  
MOUND STREET. (File No. CG2204A1, Assessment No. 220113)  
Sponsors:  
Prince  
Attachments:  
47  
48  
Ratifying the Appealed Special Tax Assessment for property at 1307  
OSCEOLA AVENUE. (File No. CG2204A1, Assessment No. 220113)  
Sponsors:  
Tolbert  
Attachments:  
Ratifying the Appealed Special Tax Assessment for property at 1111  
RANDOLPH AVENUE. (File No. CG2204A1, Assessment No. 220113)  
Sponsors:  
Tolbert  
Attachments:  
49  
50  
Making finding on the appealed nuisance abatement ordered for 1384  
REANEY AVENUE in Council File RLH SAO 23-2.  
Sponsors:  
Prince  
Attachments:  
Appeal of Mark Thieroff, Siegel Brill PA, representing Sibley Plaza Limited  
Partners, LP, to a Fire Certificate of Occupancy Correction Notice at  
2463-2515 SEVENTH STREET WEST (Suite 2473).  
Sponsors:  
Tolbert  
Attachments:  
51  
52  
Ratifying the Appealed Special Tax Assessment for property at 1255  
SHERBURNE AVENUE. (File No. CG2204A3, Assessment No. 220115)  
Sponsors:  
Jalali  
Attachments:  
Deleting the Appealed Special Tax Assessment for property at 235  
SHERBURNE AVENUE (File No. CG2204A1, Assessment No. 220113).  
Sponsors:  
Balenger  
Attachments:  
53  
Appeal of Curtis Persson to a Fire Certificate of Occupancy Correction  
Notice at 1436 SNELLING AVENUE NORTH.  
Sponsors:  
Jalali  
Attachments:  
54  
55  
Deleting the Appealed Special Tax Assessment for property at 995 THIRD  
STREET EAST. (File No. CG2204A3, Assessment No. 220115)  
Sponsors:  
Prince  
Attachments:  
Making finding on the appealed substantial abatement ordered for 1941  
UNIVERSITY AVENUE WEST in Council File RLH RR 21-60. (Amend to  
grant additional 180 days)  
Sponsors:  
Jalali  
Attachments:  
56  
57  
Deleting the Appealed Special Tax Assessment for property at 845  
WINSLOW AVENUE. (File No. CG2204A1, Assessment No. 220113)  
Sponsors:  
Noecker  
Attachments:  
Ratifying the Appealed Special Tax Assessment for property at 676 YORK  
AVENUE. (File No. CG2204A1, Assessment No. 220113)  
Sponsors:  
Yang  
Attachments:  
58  
59  
60  
Ratifying the assessment for the City’s cost of providing Collection of  
Delinquent Garbage Bills for services during July to September 2022. (File  
No. CG2204A3, Assessment No. 220115)  
Sponsors:  
Brendmoen  
Attachments:  
Ratifying the assessment for the City’s cost of providing Collection of  
Delinquent Garbage Bills for services during July to September 2022. (File  
No. CG2204A2, Assessment No. 220114)  
Sponsors:  
Brendmoen  
Attachments:  
Ratifying the assessment for the City’s cost of providing Collection of  
Delinquent Garbage Bills for services during July to September 2022. (File  
No. CG2204A1, Assessment No. 220113)  
Sponsors:  
Brendmoen  
Attachments:  
ADJOURNMENT  
City Council meetings are open for in person attendance, but the public may also comment on  
public hearing items in writing or via voicemail. Any comments and materials submitted by  
12:00 pm of the day before the meeting will be attached to the public record and available for  
review by the City Council. Comments may be submitted as follows:  
The public may comment on public hearing items in writing or via voicemail. Any comments and  
materials submitted by 12:00 pm of the day before the meeting will be attached to the public  
record and available for review by the City Council. Comments may be submitted as follows:  
Written public comment on public hearing items can be submitted to  
Contact-Council@ci.stpaul.mn.us, CouncilHearing@ci.stpaul.mn.us, or by voicemail at  
651-266-6805. Live testimony will be taken in person in the Council Chambers, and by  
telephone by registering to speak by noon on the day before the meeting. The registration link  
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agendas and Council files are all available on the Web (see below). Council members use  
mobile devices to review the files during the meeting. Using a mobile device greatly reduces  
costs since most agendas, including the documents attached to files, are over 1000 pages  
when printed.  
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