2CITYVIOLATIONS

City office

1. Crack in over hang of west main entrance north side.

2. Parking lot mainly used for police employees in disrepair. Has been patched & repatched.

3. City office has no paint on raw cement surface. At time of fire stations renovation the whole building needs to step into compliance with city ordinance # .

4. Fire station’s side hill has 3’ weeds.

5. Fire station’s back entry door entrance light cover scraped and rusting.

6. Dumpsters visible to public.

7. Barrels in back of fire station.

8. City inspector’s car has cracked windshield (and I caught Mr. Housle driving without his seat belt.)

9. Tree in northeast corner adjacent to Arlan's office is 50% dead and needs pruning.

City parks

1. Sports center roofs on all 3 buildings missing shingles & leaking. Main building shingles are molding. This city has issued demands for residences to reroof just for discoloration alone.

2. Little hut needs new trim, rotting.

3. Concession building needs shingles.

4. Concession building needs attic vents to keep critters out.

5. Concession building needs gutters on southwest corner.

6. Concession building needs spotlight lens & bulb.

7. Fire hydrant: chipped paint, rusting.

Oakdale Park

8. Gutter is all bent up, replace.

9. Soffit needs paint.

10. Fire hydrant: chipped, rusting, and needs paint.

CITY MUNICAPALITY BACK LOT.

1. “Fence” green 8’ fence that PARCIALLY surrounds municipalities yard is missing slats, & parts of slats, at least a dozen.

b. Several broken posts

c. Uneven ridgeline

d. Leans into public right of way.

e. Entire fence is in general disrepair. Replace and build complete around municipal

1. Lot, for safety purposes.

2. An accumulation of wood is a great place for rats & mice to live. Elm trees with bark breeding beetles is a fire hazard. Do you, the city of WSP, have a brush pile permit? If so, present.

3. There are 3 trailers in your lot, 2 without any registration & 1 with ‘03’ tabs.

4. Weeds everywhere along the fence, building, and out of piles of various debris.

5. Cement piles

6. Pallets

7. Road signs old & new

8. Road cones

9. PVC pipe & drain

10. Old tarps

11. Lawn mowers

12. Garbage cans, lids,& baskets

13. Litter!

14. Rusty steel

15. Bicycles?

16. Chemical barrels with stagnant water and breeding mosquitoes

17. Plexie boards

18. Tires breeding mosquitoes

19. Old steel pipe used, bent, discarded, AND rusty

20. Grills

21. Tail gates

22. Signs

23. Old wooden latter (NOT OSHA approved)

24. Cement slabs that were used

25. Remnants of picnic tables

26. Water tank

27. Boards

28. Steel dumpster old & rusted out

29. Mail box covered with motor oil

30. Open gas can

31. Battery

32. Paint buckets

33. New public park rocking animal upside down getting ruined

34. Two more old lawn mowers

35. Old banners

36. Road signs being used as coasters. I count 24 (x 150.00 =$3600.00 wasted dollars!)

37. Snow emergency salt & sand augers out in the weather deteriorating faster than if properly sheltered.

38. Crates

39. Brand new road signs some still bundled. “Thank you for being so responsible with the peoples tax dollars”.

40. Old propane tanks.

41. Pile of scrap appliances.

These pictures are all on & of West Saint Paul City property which is paid for by you!

Mayor John Zanmiller is running the show.

In the last month, I've been making a lot of waves with the city to see how they bounce back. Arbon "slick" Hairston, city manager, from what I've personally witnessed & heard takes ...

To be continued....

ALERT: Remember these people make property owners perform community service & even accrue jail time for lesser things than you see here.

FYI: I sat in on a council work session & Zanmiller, who is a probation officer by trade, was briefing the council on property owners that had received serving community service. Any way, he was telling who and how much time had been served & have left to serve. The council all giggled and there were various little different comments made around the room.

In fairness, Jim England was not present.

CITY MUNICAPALITY

2. Parking surface in general disrepair.

3. Plows & loader buckets not attached to trucks. Trucks are in total view of public right of way.

4. Retaining wall: discolored. (Question if tarred wall is an approved exterior covering).

5. Door frames rusting, needs paint

6. Bent poles, dirty cement

7. Trim around window and air conditioners not protected from weatherizaTION.

8. Road signs

9. Dumpster visible from street.

10. Garage doors need paint.

11. Sign and top of fence (not pictured) need replacing.

12. Chip in cement.

Violations of wetlands and waters:

1. Digging in wetlands

2. Cement, tar, & manhole grates dumped in

a wetland. (I checked with the DNR, and this meets with the requirements as a wetland)

3. Cement is considered hazardous waste and must be dumped in a construction demolition landfill OR be hauled to a cement-recycling center.

4. Washing and pouring road paint into a storm sewer and the qualified wetlands behind the City Municipality Building.

5. Manhole covers dumped in the wetlands.

6. Storm sewers caked with years of paint. In a couple of the pictures looking down into the storm drains, one can see a raccoon paw prints in the paint. (poor little guys). Tracing the storm drain out to Livingston and Wentworth St., which is a county road, the storm sewers flow to the pond behind

the county library (is this county land?). It then flows to Thompson Park, which IS a county park, and from there it flows through South St. Paul’s ravine and on down to the Mississippi River.