Voters to decide on a race for Ramsey County board, Mounds View, Roseville ballot measures
Results for an open Ramsey County board seat as well as ballot questions in Mounds View and Roseville were unclear late Tuesday night.
Kelly Miller, of Maplewood, and Sarah K. Yang, of North St. Paul, were running for the District 7 seat, which represents Maplewood, North St. Paul and White Bear Lake. Commissioners serve four-year terms.
Miller is the director of the Department of Indian Work at Interfaith Action of Greater Saint Paul. Yang is an academic coordinator with the University of Minnesota's TRIO Upward Bound Program.
Ramsey County Commissioner Victoria Reinhardt, who is the second-longest serving member of the Ramsey County Board, announced in August of 2023 that she would not seek re-election after seven terms in elected office. Reinhardt was first elected to the board in 1996.
Running uncontested were incumbent Mary Jo McGuire in District 2 and newcomer Tara Jebens-Singh in District 1. No precincts in either race had reported results as of late Tuesday.
The District 1 seat is currently held by Nicole Frethem, whose term expires end of December, who decided not to run for reelection.
District 3 Commissioner Trista Martinson, whose original term expired at the end of 2026, left the board in August to lead Ramsey/Washington Recycling & Energy. Martinson had represented the district since 2019 and served as board chair starting in 2022. District 3 includes Falcon Heights and several of St. Paul's northern neighborhoods, including St. Anthony Park, Como Park, South Como, the North End, Hamline-Midway, Frogtown and Payne-Phalen.
The race for District 3 will be decided by special election Feb. 11.
Mounds View
In Mounds View, voters were asked to decide whether the city will have an organized residential solid waste collection system replace its current competitive market collection system.
If approved, most residences will have trash, recycling, and other solid waste collected by a city-designated hauler in a city-designated collection district, according to the ballot question. The city now has five separate licensed haulers collecting trash and recycling.
The Mounds View city council adopted a seven-year contract in August with Lakeshore Recycling Systems, with services beginning under that contract in April if voters approve the change.
"This was a resident-driven petition to the charter," Mounds View city administrator Nyle Zikmund told the Pioneer Press in October.
To learn more about this question, go to mvtrashservicesplan.org .
Two questions were on the ballot for Roseville residents, but they apply to the same project, City Manager Patrick Trudgeon said in October.
One question asked residents whether the city should impose a 0.5% sales and use tax for up to 20 years to collect $64.2 million to build a public works and parks operations facility.
The second question asked voters if the city should impose a 0.5% sales and use tax for up to 20 years to collect $12.7 million to build a license and passport center.
The city's plans for a new operations facility would displace the current license and passport center, according to Roseville Mayor Dan Roe in a state of the city video address. The city's public works and parks operation facility houses city vehicles used to maintain city and park infrastructure, but the city is looking to update the facility.
If one or both questions are approved by voters, the tax increase will total 0.5%, not a full 1 percent. The tax would expire once the approved projects are fully funded.
To learn more about the proposed project, go to investinroseville.org .
Check for updates on results Wednesday at twincities.com/news/politics/elections .
