Read the recommendations above. The mayor would have had more power.
Also pretty sh!tty for the mayor to swoop in at the last minute to kneecap the people she appointed. If certain things were non-starters, how was that not discussed quietly earlier?
An indication of how a Board of Freeholders would go. Even city reentry would mean some elected positions go away. Politicians protecting each other.
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Can we just get right to point one day before America's birthday? Everything about the slow and incremental creep and size of how City government operates is a complete opposite of what made it grow to 850k people in the first place out of nowhere really. Much like Scandanavia, STL had the ability to go soft for a minute on cushy city jobs and welfare but eventually its not sustainable.
100 people decided for the rest of us whether we would have the opportunity to vote to get rid of the Board of E&A.
Stl Mag - How Comptroller Darlene Green saved her own job and blocked a charter commission goal
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Stl Mag - How Comptroller Darlene Green saved her own job and blocked a charter commission goal
https://www.stlmag.com/news/politics/ho ... -blocked-/
StlToday - St. Louis comptroller says aldermen hid ballot measure from public. Sponsor calls claim ‘bizarre.’
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/gov ... df082.html
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/gov ... df082.html
StlToday - St. Louis aldermen advance charter changes. One would make them a City Council.
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/gov ... a821e.html
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/gov ... a821e.html
StlToday - New plan would strip mayor of power in St. Louis, hire city manager
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/gov ... 41bfc.htmlA new effort to shift much of the mayor’s authority to an appointed city administrator will be launched Friday at the Board of Aldermen.
Alderwoman Daniela Velázquez, who will introduce the proposed city charter amendment at the board’s morning meeting, said it’s an attempt to get a better governmental structure.
“There is a whole class of professionals who are trained to manage cities,” she said. “It seemed like it could be a good solution for St. Louis.”