The St. Paul City Council met on July 22, 2026, at 3:31 PM in Council Chambers. The meeting included consent agenda approvals, two appeals of Board of Zoning Appeals decisions that were both denied, suspension items for a library lease renewal and a joint powers agreement with Ramsey County for emergency shelter funding (totaling $1,080,000 in local affordable housing aid), final adoption of Xcel Energy franchise ordinances, first readings on a Deputy City Clerk classification and the elimination of the 90-day youth minimum wage rate, public hearings on golf course lighting and solid waste contract approval, budget transfers for the Wabasha Bridge and University Avenue projects, and several property-related legislative hearing items. The meeting adjourned at 4:30 PM.
Call the meeting in the St. Paul City Council to order. Roll call, please. Bowie. Here. Coleman. Here. Johnson. Here. Joast. Kim. Here. Yang. Here. Council President Anchor. Here. Seven present, none absent. Welcome to everyone. Thank you so much for joining us for our city council meeting today. Just a quick point of business. We are holding our regular business meeting now. And immediately following this meeting, we will have a special meeting on the topic of the encampment closure. So if you're here for that topic, that will happen just following this meeting at 4 30 or as soon as this meeting is done. We invite everyone to join us in standing for the Pledge of Allegiance. Consent agenda items three through 13 are before you for your consideration. I know we will be pulling item 13 for separate consideration. Is there anything else to come off of consent? Seeing none, I'll take a motion from Vice President Yang for the balance of the consent agenda. All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed? Seven in favor, none opposed. The consent agenda is adopted as amended. Item 13, resolution 26-1197, recognizing community health workers' day in the city of St. Paul. Ms. Johnson. All right. Well, yeah, come on up. Come on up. Come on up. It's okay. I don't have to have all the spotlight to myself here. Well, colleagues, thank you so much for just taking up this time to recognize Community Health Workers' Day. Um we are doing this in advance of Community Health Workers' Day on the 28th, but because we don't have a council meeting next week, this is the time. So I just wanted to share that when we talk about healthier cities, it's important to talk about and focus on our hospitals, our clinics, and our policies. But so much of what we create and work towards is healthy communities that happens here around our kitchen tables, our neighborhood events, or our schools. This is the work of our community health workers. It's in our place of worship, it's in our uh community clinics, it's truly where you meet people. Uh even when people walk through the doors of the doctor's office, it's truly the thing that keeps them going back, whether that's their compassion, their patience, or their understanding in most cases, and an opportunity in time when none of us truly want to be there.