HL-008 · NOTICE CHRONOLOGY

When Did the 180-Day Exclusion Actually Take Effect?

The facial dates are verified; the actual notice and service chronology remains incomplete.

SOURCE HIERARCHY

Governing Rules

Read the City rule first, then applicable Minnesota authority, the national constitutional standard, judicial interpretation, and the original record. The final layer states the supported application and its limits.

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Governing Saint Paul rule

The current §170.10 contains written-notice and notification concepts relevant to extended exclusion and knowing reentry; the adopted rules describe longer exclusions under §170.10(e). The exact April 6, 2026 code version remains unverified. L-01 L-05 L-06

02

Minnesota statewide authority

Minnesota Constitution article I, section 7 provides that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. Whether a protected interest was deprived and what process was required remain issue-specific questions. L-03 MN-05

03

National constitutional standard

The Fourteenth Amendment’s notice standard asks whether notice was reasonably structured to reach the person and sufficiently clear to permit a response before or within the process appropriate to the situation. US-01 US-02

04

Judicial interpretation

Mullane, Goss, and Loudermill explain notice and response principles. They do not establish that the April 6 face date was unlawful, when an internal decision occurred, or when Josh actually received notice. SC-01 SC-02

05

Record evidence

The native signed PDF shows an April 6 face/effective date and an April 8 completed electronic signature at 2:26:22 p.m. CDT. Actual transmission, delivery, and receipt remain unverified in this chronology. R-01 R-02

06

Application and limitation

The two verified dates create a notice-chronology question. They do not prove unlawful backdating, an April 8 drafting date, an invalid internal decision, or the date Josh first received notice.

Direct answer / issue summary

Saint Paul’s exclusion letter says the restriction was effective immediately on April 6, 2026. The available electronic-signature and delivery records indicate source-PDF creation, signing, and electronic transmission on April 8. This creates a two-day documentary gap between the stated effective date and the dated electronic notice record. This page does not declare the legal effect of that gap. R-01 R-02

What the document shows

Top dateApril 6, 2026
Stated effective dateApril 6, 2026
Address notationAddress Unknown
Source PDF generatedApril 8, 2026 at 2:16:37 p.m. CDT
Signing transaction createdApril 8, 2026 at 2:17:39 p.m. CDT
Sent for signatureApril 8, 2026 at 2:17:44 p.m. CDT
E-signatureApril 8, 2026 at 2:26:22 p.m. CDT
Agreement completedApril 8, 2026 at 2:26:22 p.m. CDT
Electronic transmission / receipt in native text recordApril 8, 2026 at 2:40 p.m. CDT
Physical mailing dateUnresolved in the reviewed public record
Term stated180 days, through October 3, 2026

What the April 8 metadata proves — and what it does not prove

Directly established

  • Printed face date April 6.
  • Printed effective date April 6.
  • Source PDF generated April 8.
  • Signing transaction created April 8.
  • Sent for signature April 8.
  • Viewed, e-signed, and agreement completed April 8.
  • Electronically transmitted/received April 8.

Not established by the PDF alone

  • Whether an internal decision existed April 6.
  • Whether a Word draft existed April 6 or April 7.
  • Who wrote each allegation.
  • Who approved the legal reasoning.
  • Who selected duration or scope.
  • Whether City Attorney review occurred before signature.
  • Actual physical mailing date.

Same-day rules-page edit — provenance lead only

The official Parks Rules webpage has displayed a “Last Edited” date of April 22, 2026, the same date printed on the rescission. That coincidence is a source-provenance lead, not proof that the rules changed because of the appeal. Possible explanations include a technical edit, accessibility edit, formatting change, hyperlink update, unrelated content change, or substantive change.

Records needed include CMS revision history, before/after HTML, timestamps, editor role, change notes, approval history, and whether the edit affected exclusion, filming, event, permit, duration, or Pig’s Eye language. The March 2025 Council-approved PDF remains the staged historical rule source unless a more authoritative April 2026 snapshot is obtained.

Applicable rule and historical-source boundary

The current online §170.10 includes written-notice and notification concepts relevant to an extended exclusion and knowing reentry. The Council-adopted 2025 Parks Rules describe longer exclusions under §170.10(e). The exact April 6, 2026 codified version remains unverified, so this page does not represent the current online text as conclusively identical to the historical code. L-01 L-05 L-06

What remains unknown

  1. When was the letter first drafted?
  2. When was the final text approved?
  3. When was it transmitted?
  4. By what method?
  5. When did Josh first receive it?
  6. Was any oral notice provided on April 6?
  7. Did another authorized employee withdraw consent before the Director signed?
  8. If so, where is that employee’s factual report?
  9. What date did the City treat as the date consent was initially withdrawn?
  10. What copy was kept by the park office?

Evidence to locate

  • Native signed PDF and complete electronic-signature certificate or audit trail
  • PDF creation and modification metadata, interpreted separately from drafting history
  • Every draft and document-management version
  • Transmission email with headers and any text-message delivery record
  • Proof of actual receipt
  • Any April 6 oral or written notice
  • Any employee report preceding Director review
  • Internal email, Teams, Slack, or text communications
  • Park-office copy and version history

Important limitation

The two dates create a document-chronology question. They do not, by themselves, establish when the notice was drafted, when Josh was first informed, whether the letter was unlawfully backdated, or whether another authorized official had previously withdrawn consent.

Primary sources