St. Louis Board of Aldermen: Board Bills #128-129 & #130-132

The St. Louis Board of Aldermen will meet at 10am today, their 17th week of the 2017-2018 session. .You’ve likely already heard about the first of four bills being introduced today — fees to pay for Scottrade Center renovations. But first, two board bills were introduced last week that were not on the published agenda:

• Board Bill No. 128 | Establishing Detention Facility Advisory Commission
  BOARD BILL NO. 128 SPONSORED BY ALDERMAN JOE VACCARO An Ordinance establishing a Detention Facility Advisory Commission that shall receive public complaints regarding the City of St. Louis Justice Center and Medium Security Institution detention facilities and shall, at its discretion, review and investigate such complaints as well as patterns of issues and systemic concerns the City’s detention facilities and their operation it has identified and where the Commission deems appropriate, make recommendations to the Department of Public Safety, the Board of Aldermen, and Mayor with respect to Corrections Division policy and procedure, training, infrastructure, care and treatment of detainees, and other areas related to detention facilities and their operations.
• Board Bill No. 129 |Ordinance banning horses on public streets
  BOARD BILL NO. 129 SPONSORED BY ALDERMAN JOE VACCARO An ordinance to make it unlawful, subject to those exceptions stated herein, for any person to ride, walk or otherwise lead a horse or horses on, along or over the public streets, alleys and sidewalks within the City of St. Louis and the paths and trails, and any extensions thereof within the City of St. Louis.

ON THE AGENDA* FOR INTRODUCTION TODAY 9/29/17:

*Note that just because a bill is on the agenda doesn’t mean it’ll be introduced, similarly, bills not on the agenda might be introduced if they suspend the rules to do so. This information is based on the published agenda as of yesterday @ 8am:

The meeting begins at 10am, past meetings and a live broadcast can be watched online here. See list of all board bills for the 2017-2018 session.

— Steve Patterson

St. Louis Board of Aldermen: Board Bills #122-127

Last week the St. Louis Board of Aldermen had just one bill on their agenda, #122, but it wasn’t introduced. It’s back today with five more.

ON AGENDA* FOR INTRODUCTION TODAY 9/22/17:

*Note that just because a bill is on the agenda doesn’t mean it’ll be introduced, similarly, bills not on the agenda might be introduced if they suspend the rules to do so. This information is based on the published agenda as of yesterday @ 8am:

B.B.#124 – Bosley – An ordinance repealing Ordinance 6900 pertaining to the issuance of any package or drink liquor licenses for premises within the boundaries of the Third Ward Liquor Control District and in lieu thereof containing the following supplementary exemptions: renewal of an existing license and the establishment of an Entertainment District; and containing an emergency clause.

B.B.#125 – P. Boyd ?An ordinance repealing Ordinance 70573 and in lieu thereof enacting a new ordinance prohibiting the issuance of any package or drink liquor licenses for any currently non?licensed premises within the boundaries of the Twenty?Seventh Ward Liquor Control District; and containing an emergency clause.

B.B.#126 – Ingrassia – An ordinance adopted pursuant to the Intergovernmental Agreement Act, Sections 70.210 to 70.325, inclusive, of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, and authorizing the City to enter into an Intergovernmental Cooperation Agreement with the Metropolitan Sewer District for the purpose of sharing certain water data in the possession of the City with the Metropolitan Sewer District, for fair and substantial compensation received by the Metropolitan Sewer District, containing a severability clause and a governance clause.

The meeting begins at 10am, it can be watched online here. See list of all board bills for the 2017-2018 session.

— Steve Patterson

St. Louis Board of Aldermen: Board Bill #122

Last week the St. Louis Board of Aldermen introduced twenty (20) new Board Bills. Today. only one.

ON AGENDA* FOR INTRODUCTION TODAY 9/15/17:

*Note that just because a bill is on the agenda doesn’t mean it’ll be introduced, similarly, bills not on the agenda might be introduced if they suspend the rules to do so. This information is based on the published agenda as of yesterday @ 8am:

• B.B.#122 – Conway ? An ordinance, recommended by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, authorizing a supplemental appropriation; amending Ordinance 70540, commonly referred to as the City of St. Louis Annual Operating Plan for Fiscal Year 2017?2018; appropriating and setting apart the sum of One Million Nine Hundred Ten Thousand Dollars from revenues accruing to the Local Use Tax Fund; and containing an emergency clause.

The meeting begins at 10am, it can be watched online here. See list of all board bills for the 2017-2018 session.

— Steve Patterson

St. Louis Board of Aldermen: Board Bill #100-121

The St. Louis Board of Aldermen return from their Summer break today. The last meeting, on July 14th, only had one bill on the agenda published the day before. Turns out three bills were introduced that day. So here’s the two I missed on 7/14/17:

Board Bill No. 100 | Redevelopment plan for 5219 Daggett

BOARD BILL NO. 100 INTRODUCED BY ALDERMAN VOLLMER An ordinance approving a Redevelopment Plan for the 5219 Daggett Ave. Area (“Area”) after finding that the Area is blighted as defined in Section 99.320 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, 2000, as amended, (the “Statute” being Sections 99.300 to 99.715 inclusive), containing a description of the boundaries of said Area in the City of St. Louis (“City”), attached hereto and incorporated herein as Exhibit “A”, finding that redevelopment and rehabilitation of the Area is in the interest of the public health, safety, morals and general welfare of the people of the City; approving the Plan dated May 25, 2017 for the Area (“Plan”), incorporated herein by attached Exhibit “B”, pursuant to Section 99.430; finding that there is a feasible financial plan for the development of the Area which affords maximum opportunity for development of the Area by private enterprise; finding that no property in the Area may be acquired by the Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority of the City of St. Louis (“LCRA”) through the exercise of eminent domain; finding that the property within the Area is unoccupied, but if it should become occupied the Redeveloper shall be responsible for relocating any eligible occupants displaced as a result of implementation of the Plan; finding that financial aid may be necessary to enable the Area to be redeveloped in accordance with the Plan; finding that there shall be available ten (10) year real estate tax abatement with five (5) years of payments in lieu of taxes or up to five (5) years real estate tax abatement; and pledging cooperation of the Board of Aldermen and requesting various officials, departments, boards and agencies of the City to cooperate and to exercise their respective powers in a manner consistent with the Plan.

Board Bill No. 101 | Redevelopment plan for 3172 Morganford

BOARD BILL NO. 101 INTRODUCED BY ALD. MEGAN GREEN An ordinance approving a Redevelopment Plan for the 3172 Morgan Ford Rd. (“Area”) after finding that the Area is blighted as defined in Section 99.320 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, 2000, as amended, (the “Statute” being Sections 99.300 to 99.715 inclusive), containing a description of the boundaries of said Area in the City of St. Louis (“City”), attached hereto and incorporated herein as Exhibit “A”, finding that redevelopment and rehabilitation of the Area is in the interest of the public health, safety, morals and general welfare of the people of the City; approving the Plan dated May 25, 2017 for the Area (“Plan”), incorporated herein by attached Exhibit “B”, pursuant to Section 99.430; finding that there is a feasible financial plan for the development of the Area which affords maximum opportunity for development of the Area by private enterprise; finding that no property in the Area may be acquired by the Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority of the City of St. Louis (“LCRA”) through the exercise of eminent domain; finding that the property within the Area is unoccupied, but if it should become occupied the Redeveloper shall be responsible for relocating any eligible occupants displaced as a result of implementation of the Plan; finding that financial aid may be necessary to enable the Area to be redeveloped in accordance with the Plan; finding that there shall be available ten (10) year real estate tax abatement; and pledging cooperation of the Board of Aldermen and requesting various officials, departments, boards and agencies of the City to cooperate and to exercise their respective powers in a manner consistent with the Plan.

ON AGENDA* FOR INTRODUCTION TODAY 9/8/17:

*Note that just because a bill is on the agenda doesn’t mean it’ll be introduced, similarly, bills not on the agenda might be introduced if they suspend the rules to do so. This information is based on the published agenda as of yesterday @ 8am: UPDATED 9/14/17 @10:45AM with links to Board Bills.

• B.B.#102 – Davis –An Ordinance recommended and approved by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment authorizing and directing the Director of Airports and the Comptroller, owner and operator of St. Louis Lambert International Airport to enter into and execute on behalf of the City the Trans States Holdings, Inc. Airport Office Building Lease Agreement AL?055 between the City and Trans States Holdings, Inc., granting to the Lessee, subject to and in accordance with the terms, covenants, and conditions of the Agreement, certain rights and privileges in connection with the occupancy and use of the Premises, which is defined and more fully described in Section 201 of the Lease Agreement that was approved by the Airport Commission and is attached hereto as ATTACHMENT “1” and made a part hereof, and its terms are more fully described in Section One of this Ordinance; containing a severability clause; and containing an emergency clause.
• B.B.#103 – Kennedy – An Ordinance to change the zoning of property in City Block 2513, from “C” Multiple?Family Dwelling District to the “G” Local Commercial and Office District, at 3866?68 Windsor Place; and containing an emergency clause.
• B.B.#104 – Pres. Reed – An Ordinance recommended by the Planning Commission to change the zoning of property in City Block 1228.18, from “C” Multiple?Family Dwelling and “J” Industrial District to the “J” Industrial District, at 4115 N. Broadway and 815 & 187 Angelica Street; and containing an emergency clause.
• B.B.#105 – Ingrassia – An Ordinance to change the zoning of property in City Block 929 at 2647?49 & 2651?53 Locust, from “J” Industrial District to the “H” Area Commercial District; and containing an emergency clause.
• B.B.#106 – Hubbard/Bosley –An Ordinance recommended by the Planning Commission, to change the zoning of property as indicated on the District Map and in City Blocks 1078, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 2314, 2315, 2316, 2317, 2318, 2319, 2324, 2325, 2326, 2327, 2328, 2329, 2345, 2356 and 2347, from “A” Single?Family Dwelling District, “C” Multiple?Family Dwelling District, “D” Multiple?Family Dwelling District, “F” Neighborhood Commercial District, “G” Local Commercial and Office District and “J” Industrial District to “H” Area Commercial District only, at 2200?50, 2201?49, 2303?37, 2346?50, 2500?48 and 2501?47 Benton, 2201?47, 2301?23, 2401?23 and 2501?29 Cass, 1516?30 and 1800?12 No. Jefferson, 2200?48, 2201?41, 2300?48, 2301?51, 2500?30 and 2501?49 Madison, 2201?33, 2301?39, 2500?30 and 2501?55 Maiden, 2201?49, 2214?46, 2300?48, 2301?43 and 2500?44 Montgomery, 2200?18, 2201?37, 2300?64, 2305?49, 2500?14, and 2507?37 Mullanphy, 2200?48, 2201?51, 2300?48, 2301?49, 2500?54 and 2501?51 North Market, 1505?07, 1827?31 and 2407?11 and 2611?19 No. 22nd St., 1617, 1618, 1804, 1814?24, 2517?25 and 2609? 11 No. 23rd, 1514?20, 1700?02 and 2701 No. 25th St, and 2200?46, 2205?51, 2301?47, 2308?26, 2500?48 and 2501?45 Warren; and containing an emergency clause.
• B.B.#107 – Davis –An Ordinance recommended and approved by the Airport Commission and the Board of Estimate and Apportionment that provides for financial incentives for air service at St. Louis Lambert International Airport; determines and finds that it is in the best interests of The City, the Airport, and the traveling public to encourage service at the Airport by new passenger and cargo airlines and to stimulate service by airlines currently using the Airport by the adoption of programs providing for financial incentives for new airlines or new air service at the Airport; adopts an Air Service Incentive Program, for Fiscal Years 2018 through 2020; containing a severability clause; and containing an emergency clause.
• B.B.#108 – Davis –An Ordinance recommended and approved by the Airport Commission and the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, making certain findings with respect to the transfer of One Million Six Hundred Thousand Dollars of excess moneys that The City, the owner and operator of St. Louis Lambert International Airport, intends to transfer from the “Airport Development Fund” into the “Airport Contingency Fund” in accordance with Section 509.F of the Airport Amended and Restated Indenture of Trust between the City, as Grantor, and UMB Bank, N.A., as Trustee; authorizing transfers in the total amount of One Million Six Hundred Thousand Dollars from the Airport Development Fund into the Airport Contingency Fund; further authorizing transfers of funds in the total amount not to exceed One Million Six Hundred Dollars from the Airport Contingency Fund to the Airport Revenue Fund as are required for the purposes of making funds available in part for the estimated costs of the Airport’s Air Service Incentive Program for Fiscal Years 2018 through 2020, which total estimated costs may not exceed Four Million Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars, and providing for supplemental transfers from the Airport Development Fund to the Airport Contingency Fund and then into the Airport Revenue Fund; containing a severability clause; and containing an emergency clause.
• B.B.#109 – Davis –An Ordinance recommended and approved by the Airport Commission, the Board of Public Service, and the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, establishing and authorizing a multi? year public work and improvement program at St. Louis Lambert International Airport, providing for and consisting of capital improvement projects, implementation, administration, management or monitoring of the Airport Projects at a total estimated cost of One Hundred Ten Million Dollars; authorizing an initial appropriation in the total amount of Seventy Nine Million Ten Thousand Six Hundred Eighty Four Dollars as follows: a) Five Million Eight Hundred Eighty Seven Thousand Four Hundred Seventy Dollars from the Airport Development Fund, b) Fifteen Million One Hundred Twenty Two Thousand Nine Hundred Forty Six Dollars from the Passenger Facility Charge Fund, c) Thirty One Million Four Hundred Two Thousand One Hundred Thirty Four Dollars from the Series 2017C Construction Sub?Account, d) Twenty Six Million Five Hundred Ninety Eight Thousand One Hundred Thirty Four Dollars from the Series 2017D Construction Sub?Account, into this Ordinance for the payment of costs for work and services authorized herein and providing for the receipt of supplemental appropriations when authorized by ordinance into this Ordinance as funds become available to continue the Airport Projects; authorizing the Mayor and the Comptroller of the to enter into and execute on behalf of the City easement agreements granting such easements or right?of?ways as may be necessary to the administration or implementation of the Airport Projects; containing a severability and an emergency clause.
• B.B.#110 – Davis –An ordinance recommended and approved by the Airport Commission and the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, authorizing and directing the Mayor and the Comptroller, the owner and operator of St. Louis Lambert International Airport, to accept a Supplemental Agreement to Airport Aid Agreement offered by the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission for the marketing and promotion of air service at the Airport for a maximum obligation of Five Hundred Ninety Two Thousand Dollars for the reimbursement of direct costs associated with the projects funded under the Grant Agreement which extends the time period of the Supplemental Agreement for three months, from June 30, 2016 up to and including September 30, 2016; and containing an emergency clause.
• B.B.#111 – Davis –An ordinance recommended and approved by the Airport Commission and the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, authorizing and directing the Mayor and the Comptroller, the owner and operator of St. Louis Lambert International Airport, to accept and execute on behalf of the City a certain Airport Aid Agreement offered by the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission (the “Grant Agreement”) for the marketing and promotion of air service at the Airport for a maximum obligation of Three Hundred Seventy?Five Thousand ($375,000) for the reimbursement of direct costs associated with the projects funded under the Grant Agreement; and containing an emergency clause.
• B.B.#112 – Davis –An Ordinance recommended by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment authorizing and directing the Director of Airports and the Comptroller to enter into and execute on behalf of the City the First Amendment to Wifi and Distributed Antenna System Operating Agreement AL?263 (“First Amendment”) to the St. Louis Lambert International AirportTM Wifi and Distributed Antenna System Operating Agreement AL?263, between the City and Concourse Communications Group, LLC, a Limited Liability Company organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, and authorized by City Ordinance 69919; containing a severability clause; and containing an emergency clause.
• B.B.#113 – Arnowitz –Pursuant to Ordinance 68937, an ordinance authorizing the honorary street name, S. Sgt. Ron Bozikis, U.S. Army (Green Beret) Street will begin at the intersection of Livingston Drive and Fillmore Street and run northwest on Fillmore Street to Coronado Avenue.
• B.B.#114 – Pres. Reed/Vaccaro –An ordinance adopted pursuant to Section 105.483 (11) RSMo., reaffirming the provisions of Ordinances 62391, 66691, 67617, 68409, 68934, establishing a policy for the disclosure of potential conflicts of interest and substantial interests for certain municipal officials, and containing an emergency clause.
• B.B.#115 – Williamson –An Ordinance renaming the City park in the 26th Ward known as Parkland Park, the new name of said park to be Frank Williamson Sr. Park, and containing an emergency clause.
• B.B.#116 – Arnowitz – An Ordinance approving a redevelopment plan for 3830 and 3831 Boulevard Heights Ct.
• B.B.#117 – Green/Ingrassia –An ordinance relating to public safety; imposing, subject to the approval of the voters, a temporary payroll tax at a rate of one half of one percent on the income of each individual employed in the City of St. Louis by a for?profit business organization, whether foreign or domestic, employing fifty or more persons regardless of the location of said persons’ place of employment, and any organization which is recognized as tax? exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, whether foreign or domestic, employing two?hundred and fifty or more persons regardless of the location of said persons’ place of employment, solely for the purpose of providing revenues for the operation of the department of public safety, including police and fire divisions; submitting to the qualified voters of the City a proposal to impose such tax; providing for an election and the manner of voting thereat; providing that if such question shall receive the votes of a majority of the voters voting thereon that such tax shall be authorized and in effect; and containing an emergency clause.
• B.B.#118 – Roddy –An ordinance recommended by the Board of Public Service to conditionally vacate travel in irregular shaped portion of Chouteau adjacent to 4001?07 Chouteau in City Block 3957 beginning at Sarah and extending eastwardly 152.04′ ± 82.0′ to a point in the City.
• B.B.#119 – Muhammad –An ordinance approving the allocation of $215,000.00 from the City Emergency Management Fund Agency (CEMA) for workforce development and employment to out?of?work residents in the City of St. Louis.
• B.B.#120 – Boyd –An Ordinance requiring public utilities to replace sidewalk squares consistent with the color, texture, and spacing of expansion joints of adjacent sidewalk squares or, if any adjacent sidewalk square is inconsistent as to its color, texture, and spacing of its expansion joints with that of the majority of sidewalk squares on the block, the majority of sidewalk squares on the block.
• B.B.#121 – Green –An Ordinance establishing a four?way stop site at the intersection of Hartford Street and Morgan Ford Road regulating all northbound and southbound traffic traveling on Morgan Ford Road at Hartford Street and regulating all eastbound and westbound traffic traveling on Hartford Street at Morgan Ford Road, and containing an emergency clause.

The meeting begins at 10am, it can be watched online here. See list of all board bills for the 2017-2018 session.

— Steve Patterson

Happy Labor Day

Missouri is book-ended on eat side by blue-ish cities: Kansas City on the West and St. Louis on the East. In between is a lot of red. Wages & labor, among many others, are areas where the differences clash.  Though the GOP controls Jefferson City the people are fighting back.

From last month:

With the submission of more than 300,000 signatures Friday, Missouri’s right-to-work law won’t go into effect Aug. 28 and its fate likely will be put to voters in 2018.

 The law is suspended, Secretary of State spokeswoman Maura Browning told St. Louis Public Radio. The office still needs to verify that at least 100,000 of the signatures are from registered voters — the minimum to force a statewide vote in November 2018. (St. Louis Public Radio)

If the signatures are conformed, this gives lots of time to mount a campaign to override the legislature on unions. St. Louis’ higher minimum wage has been rolled back by the state GOP, but again efforts are underway to change that as well:

In Missouri, advocates of a higher minimum wage are already mobilizing a new statewide campaign to get a minimum wage measure on the November 2018 ballot. If organizers with the “Raise Up Missouri” campaign gather enough signatures and voters approve it next year, Missouri’s minimum wage would go up to $8.60 in 2019 and increase 85 cents each year until 2023, when it would hit $12 an hour.

Jake Rosenfeld, a sociology professor at Washington University who studies labor and inequality, points to the successful 2014 statewide measure raising Arkansas’ minimum wage as an example of the issue’s resonance beyond a liberal base. (Post-Dispatch)

Arkansas is just as backwards as Missouri, perhaps more. So if they can increase their statewide minimum wage we should too.

Have a great Labor Day today.

— Steve Patterson