The following announcement was made by Jan Walczak at the July 21, 2009 North St. Paul Council Meeting:

"Tonight, I want to announce that I will no longer be serving as the Chairperson for the Fall Round Up Parade, Snow Frolics, Crazy Days/Slice of Summer, and the Farmers Market. My involvement began in 2001 when North St. Paul was not going to have a Fall Round Up Parade. No organization or individual had volunteered to run it that year. Mayor Sandberg felt that this annual tradition was too important to be skipped, so he encouraged me to volunteer to run it. Since then, I have also done Fall Round Up, Crazy Days/Slice of Summer, Snow Frolics and the Farmers Market each for the past seven years. Since this year’s Farmers Market is in progress, I will finish out the summer with the Farmers Market.

Going forward, these events will not occur again until somebody or some entity steps forward to volunteer to run one, some, or all of the events. Since I volunteered for Mayor Sandberg, I feel it is appropriate to resign as Chairperson here at a council meeting.

My reasons for stepping down are that I have found it has become hard for me to raise funds to run these events, even harder for me to find the necessary volunteers, and hardest for me to operate the events without the full endorsement of the City Council. So, I ask the residents to kindly accept my resignation as Chairperson for these events."