North St. Paul City Council — Transcript

Saturday, March 15, 2025

Special Event Permit Fee Policy Reevaluation

City Departmental Updates and Projects

Commission and Committee Reports

Community Events and Administrative Planning

Votes (1)

Special Event Permit for Rotary Club and Resolution Accepting Donations from Rotary Club (Items H and I)

4-0 Approved, 1 Abstained

Dissent: One council member abstained due to a declared conflict of interest, but there were no votes against the motion.

Moved by Council Member [0:06:21] · Seconded by Council Member Cole [0:06:26]

A council member pulled both items due to a potential conflict of interest and announced an abstention. Another council member questioned the city's new practice of charging event fees for public events, highlighting a change from past years and expressing concern about the impact on various community groups, including churches and events at Veterans Park. Staff confirmed that previous fee waivers were not in line with current permit language, and council discussed reevaluating the policy for more exceptions.

Notable Quotes (4)

I pulled both items because I have potential conflict of interest and I choose to abstain from voting on both those items.
— Council Member [0:02:18]

Special Event Permit for Rotary Club and Resolution Accepting Donations from Rotary Club (Items H and I)

I'm of the understanding that the city has interpreted the rule different from a public event where in past years we haven't charged the event fees and so this is kind of a a new thing that we're doing... I just wanted to pause and say this is a change from the way that we've operated in the past...
— Council Member Wong [0:02:44]

Special Event Permit for Rotary Club and Resolution Accepting Donations from Rotary Club (Items H and I)

previous practices... it was allowed to uh let that slide but it wasn't Don properly for the wording that we had if we did want to change that then yeah we we could bring that back to council um with exceptions more exceptions.
— Staff [0:03:52]

Special Event Permit for Rotary Club and Resolution Accepting Donations from Rotary Club (Items H and I)

can I propose that we reevaluate that... I'd like to reevaluate the charging of those.
— Council Member Wong [0:05:07]

Special Event Permit for Rotary Club and Resolution Accepting Donations from Rotary Club (Items H and I)

Ordinances & Resolutions (12)

Special event permit for the Wilderness inquiryPermit

Item on consent agenda

Special event permit for the Rotary ClubPermit

Pulled from consent agenda for discussion regarding fee policy

Resolution accepting donations from the Rotary ClubResolution

Pulled from consent agenda for discussion alongside the special event permit

Resolution accepting donations from ISD622Resolution

Item on consent agenda

Contract for torque utilities for 2024 underground directional boreOther

Item on consent agenda

Highway 120 and Highway 36 letter of supportOther

Item on consent agenda

Surplus sewer cleaning truckOther

Item on consent agenda

EAB Emerald Ash Borer permit requestPermit

Permit process for public funds related to ash borer response

Lead pipe informationOther

Information for public meeting on federal lead and galvanized pipe replacement

Fence regulationsOrdinance

Topic for the next Planning Commission meeting

Utility box wrap contestOther

Contest for high school artists organized by Arts and Culture Commission

Management Action Plan (MAP)Plan

Proposed topic for Council discussion

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