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MARSHALL – Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison will visit Marshall on Friday, a residents’ rights group at Broadmoor Valley Mobile Home Park said. The news comes as residents of Broadmoor redouble their efforts to remedy park conditions, such as poor roads and vacant and uninhabitable mobile homes.
While residents and lawyers have not given details of the reason for Ellison’s visit this week, the Minnesota attorney general’s office has been in contact with residents of Broadmoor in the past. Approximately 60 Broadmoor Valley residents and advocates met with Ellison in the spring of 2019. Ellison also visited the mobile home park on this 2019 visit.
Residents of Broadmoor Valley – Marshall’s only trailer park – have expressed concerns about conditions there in recent years. The Broadmoor Valley Resident Association was formed in 2018, and group members addressed Marshall City Council and held events such as a community cleanup and a dignity walk in the park. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has made it difficult for the residents’ association members to reunite in 2020, said Deb Ertl, a Broadmoor Valley resident.
Things have also been busy for the attorney general’s office over the past year or so, local lawyer Misty Butler said. The attorney general’s office was involved not only in the pandemic response, but in the prosecution of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd.
Earlier this month, Marshall City Council members voted to declare four vacant homes in Broadmoor Valley as unsafe structures and called on owner Paul Schierholz to repair or remove them. Problems with the four mobile homes included holes in their exteriors, places where water could enter structures, unsecured doors and broken windows.
Marshall City Attorney Dennis Simpson said the order should be officially served on Schierholz, but it would be the first step for the city to take action to remove deficient structures from the park. Simpson proposed that the city obtain an administrative search warrant to inspect a total of 17 properties in Broadmoor Valley. After that, the city could issue another reduction order, he said.
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