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  
651-266-8585  
Thursday, July 11, 2024  
9:00 AM  
Room 330 City Hall & Court House/Remote  
Delinquent Garbage Hauling Assessments  
9:00 a.m. Hearings  
Special Tax Assessments  
Ratifying the Appealed Special Tax Assessment for property at 299  
BURLINGTON ROAD. (File No. CG2402A1, Assessment No. 240113)  
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RLH TA 24-222  
Sponsors:  
Johnson  
Reduce assessment from $154.44 to $134.31.  
Matt Barett, owner, appeared via phone  
[Moermond gives background of appeals process]  
Staff report by Jill Barden: the property owner states autopay payments were being  
declined in spite of giving Waste Management updated credit card information. The  
property owner believes late fees should be removed. Waste Management states  
they emailed property owner January 25 with a notification of declined autopay, and  
property owner didn’t contact Waste Management until early April. However, property  
owner states they contacted Waste Management in October 2023 with updated credit  
card information. The Quarter 4 payment  
Moermond: this assessment is for $144.52, with the late fees being just over $20. Mr.  
Barrett, sounds like Waste Management wasn’t keeping up with your credit card  
information as you submitted it?  
Barrett: yes, and whatever happened with the system in January. We all experience it  
too often where your card is compromised, that happened just before October. My  
wife went online and updated the information. What appears to be missing was that in  
January there was no communication saying they had the same situation. We  
updated the information, you have the potential to contact us, good credit scores.  
Missing the communication in January missed the opportunity to avoid all of this.  
Moermond: we agree, so does staff. We’ll reduce this assessment to $134.31. That is  
your original bill amount. I regret you have to go through this process to get this  
squared away. Hopefully things for residents improve when Waste Management no  
longer is in charge of the billing, and the City takes over the billing. Let’s get that  
decreased. If you’re ok with that recommendation, this goes to Council Public  
Hearing August 14, so within a couple days of that the information will be updated  
with the revised amount. You should get another invoice.  
Referred to the City Council due back on 8/14/2024  
Ratifying the Appealed Special Tax Assessment for property at 1223  
FARRINGTON STREET. (File No. CG2402A1, Assessment No.  
240113)  
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RLH TA 24-224  
Sponsors:  
Kim  
Approve the assessment.  
Voicemail left at 9:19 am: I’m trying to reach Carol Broos, this is Marcia Moermond  
from St. Paul City Council calling you about your appealed special tax assessment  
for 1223 Farrington St. We’ll call you back in 10 or 15 mins to see if you are available  
to talk then.  
Voicemail left 9:29 am: this is Marcia Moermond from St. Paul City Council calling  
Carol Broos again about your assessment for garbage hauling services at 1223  
Farrington. I’m going to recommend the Council approve this assessment. Should  
you wish to appeal this recommendation follow the information on the notice for  
today’s hearing and it will tell you how to do so. Thank you and have a good day.  
Referred to the City Council due back on 8/14/2024  
Ratifying the Appealed Special Tax Assessment for property at 1042  
HAGUE AVENUE, UNIT C, (File No. CG2402A1, Assessment No.  
240113)  
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RLH TA 24-267  
Sponsors:  
Bowie  
Delete the assessment.  
No one appeared  
Staff report by Jillian Barden: the property owner in Unit C was incorrectly charged an  
assessment. Republic Services sent it to the City in error, so they are requesting we  
remove it.  
Moermond: an assessment for $44.34 to be deleted.  
Referred to the City Council due back on 8/14/2024  
Ratifying the Appealed Special Tax Assessment for property at 104  
LARPENTEUR AVENUE WEST. (File No. CG2402A1, Assessment  
No. 240113)  
RLH TA 24-269  
Sponsors:  
Kim  
Delete the assessment.  
No one appeared  
Staff report by Jill Barden: the property owner’s cart went missing December 2023  
and property owner became severely ill and ended up in the hospital for 2 months  
during Quarter 1, 2024. Waste Management states they didn’t receive notice the  
garbage cart was missing until April 2024, after property owner was discharged from  
the hospital.  
Moermond: what I’m getting is that because she was in the hospital during this time  
period there was no way for her to ask for a service hold and we take the logistics of  
that into consideration. You simply can’t. Straightforward deletion. The City would  
take on the cost of that adjustment, which I think is the right way to handle that.  
Referred to the City Council due back on 8/14/2024  
10:00 a.m. Hearings  
Special Tax Assessments  
Ratifying the Appealed Special Tax Assessment for property at 1056  
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RLH TA 24-266  
OXFORD STREET NORTH. (File No. CG2402A2, Assessment No.  
240114)  
Sponsors:  
Kim  
Reduce assessment from $293.27 to $129.46.  
Voicemail left at 9:26 am: this is Marcia Moermond from St. Paul City Council calling  
you about your appealed tax assessment for 1056 Oxford St. We’ll call you right  
back, it sounded like you may have answered, so we’ll try you back right away.  
Tried calling at 9:27 am and rang out before disconnecting the call.  
Tried calling at 9:38 am and rang out before disconnecting the call.  
Moermond: we’re not able to get through to Lucy Bloedoorn at 1056 Oxford. The first  
time it sounded like it was a glitch before went to Voicemail, offered Voicemail. The  
second two times we called it didn’t offer Voicemail, it simply hung up. I’ll go with the  
staff recommendation of decreasing the assessment from $293.27 down to $129.46.  
That takes into account the fact that Highland Sanitation didn’t handle the checks in a  
business-like manner.  
Staff you are reaching out to confirm this recommendation? Could you, in that  
outreach, indicate if she wants to be heard on this again she can reach out to you or  
Mai Vang and we can speak with her on our layover date.  
Referred to the City Council due back on 8/14/2024  
Special Tax Assessments-ROLLS  
Ratifying the assessment for the City’s cost of providing Collection of  
Delinquent Garbage Bills for services during January to March 2024.  
(File No. CG2402A1, Assessment No. 240113)  
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RLH AR 24-52  
Sponsors:  
Jalali  
Referred to the City Council due back on 8/14/2024  
Ratifying the assessment for the City’s cost of providing Collection of  
Delinquent Garbage Bills for services during January to March 2024.  
(File No. CG2402A2, Assessment No. 240114)  
RLH AR 24-53  
Sponsors:  
Jalali  
Referred to the City Council due back on 8/14/2024