St. Louis Board of Aldermen: New Board Bills Week 14 of 2018-2019 Session

The St. Louis Board of Aldermen will meet at 10am today, their first meeting back following their Summer break. People have family vacations, and such. Also, the chambers are not air conditioned!

Today’s meeting is the 14th meeting of the 2018-2019 session, the agenda includes ten (10) new bills:

• B.B.#100 – Arnowitz – An Ordinance authorizing and directing the Director of the Department of Human Services, by and through the St. Louis Area Agency on Aging and on, to accept a Grant Award from St. Louis City Senior Services Fund in the amount of $50,000 over the next fiscal year and to expend those funds for the City Benefits Plus program as set forth in the Grant Award Agreement, attached hereto as Exhibit A; and containing an Emergency Clause.
• B.B.#101 – Hubbard – An ordinance pertaining to the Al’s Restaurant,located at 1200 N. 1st Street, having as subject matter the designation of the Property as a City of St. Louis Landmark, containing definitions, Landmark Standards and a severability clause.
• B.B.#102 – 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, to accept and execute a certain 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 Three Hundred Fifty Thousand dollars ($350,000) for the reimbursement of direct costs associated with the projects funded under the Grant Agreement; and containing an emergency clause .
• B.B.#103 – Bosley – An ordinance approved and recommended by the Board of Public Service and enacted pursuant to Article XXI of the City Charter and Chapter 523 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri; approving the use of condemnation by the City to acquire a site consisting of about 97 acres in North St. Louis near the intersection of Jefferson and Cass Avenues which isowned in fee simple by LCRA Holdings Corporation (“LCRAH”),which site was chosen for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s new NGA West facility, and which is described more fully in Exhibit A and a map of the Property contained in Exhibit B; finding that development of the NGA West facility is in the national interest as well as the interest of the public health, safety, morals and general welfare of the people of the City by continuing the City’s ongoing efforts to remedy defective or inadequate street layout, unsanitary or unsafe conditions, and other conditions which negatively impact the public health, safety, morals or welfare at and near the site of the planned NGA West project; and containing a severability clause and an emergency clause.
• B.B.#104 – Davis – An ordinance enlarging the boundaries of the Port Authority of the City Port District, subject to the approval of the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission, and authorizing certain actions in connection therewith.
• B.B.#105 – Kennedy/Pres. Reed – An ordinance authorizing and directing the Mayor to submit all necessary applications and to enter into agreements with the Missouri Foundation for Health for participation in a project to develop a criminal justice coordinating council to advance social justice and reforming pre-trial bail to reduce the jail population, and authorizing the Mayor, upon approval of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, to expend any funds received by said grant to fulfill the obligations of the grant, and containing an emergency clause
• B.B.#106 – Muhammad – Pursuant to Ordinance 68937, an ordinanceauthorizing the honorary naming of streets, Harry’s Place Waywill begin at the intersection of Pope and West Florissant, and run west on Pope to the intersection with Rosalie.
• B.B.#107 – Muhammad – An ordinance repealing Ordinance 65698, approved November 20, 2022, naming certain streets locatedwithin O’Fallon Park, and renaming certain of those streets asset forth in this ordinance, and authorizing and directing the Director of Streets and the Director of Parks to take all necessary actions to properly designate said streets in accordance with this ordinance.
• B.B.#108 – P. Boyd – An Ordinance directing the Director of Streets to permanently close, barricade, or otherwise impede the flow of traffic on east/west alley-way in City Block 5000 Block, bounded by Robin, Lillian, Riverview and Theodore at a point on said alley-way that is approximately ten (10) feet southeast of the east curb line of Theodore Ave., and containing an emergency clause.
• B.B.#109 – Muhammad – An Ordinance for the creation of a disconnected youth task force to study the obstacles to education and employment to disconnected youth in the City of St. Louis, and requiring said task force to compile a report of their findings and recommendations to be submitted to the Mayor and a Board of Aldermen standing committee to be designated by the President of the Board of Aldermen, within one (1) year following the first meeting of the task forc

For more on BB #103 see City Seeks to Eminent Domain its Own Property.  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 — the new bills listed above may not be online right away.

— Steve Patterson