Not sure where this should go, but this article hits the nail on the head. Somebody forward this to our “leaders”!!
https://www.stltoday.com/business/colum ... 244d77e2ed
https://www.stltoday.com/business/colum ... 244d77e2ed
Not only our leaders but the people who live here. You saw the uproar when Better Together Came out with a merger plan. Most would rather go down on theDogtownBnR wrote: ↑Dec 03, 2019Not sure where this should go, but this article hits the nail on the head. Somebody forward this to our “leaders”!!
https://www.stltoday.com/business/colum ... 244d77e2ed
sinking ship than merge.
Just from personal experience I have nephew that move to Dallas. I have a niece and nephew graduating this spring from SLU and are heading to Nashville.
I have two second cousins (early 20s) one to Dallas and you guessed one to Nashville. The is "something" about Nashville the early twenty somethings live.
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Young people today choose where to live and find a job there. My generation moved to where they were offered the best job, wherever it was. My daughter just graduated from college and chose to stay in Boston.
Nashville is known for music. We need to be known for something cooler than baseball. And crime rank topping, which would be presented more accurately if our core city included some low crime suburbs, like other ranked cities.
As a full metro, St Louis metro has lower violent crime and lower property crime than Nashville metro per FBI tables. But conventional wisdom is the opposite.
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Nashville is known for music. We need to be known for something cooler than baseball. And crime rank topping, which would be presented more accurately if our core city included some low crime suburbs, like other ranked cities.
As a full metro, St Louis metro has lower violent crime and lower property crime than Nashville metro per FBI tables. But conventional wisdom is the opposite.
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^^^ Ugh, why do I punish myself by reading the comments on any STLToday article? Decent article, though of course no mention of how there was apparently actually somewhat of a tower crane shortage for a time in STL (last year or early this year, I believe), nor any mention of all of the development taking place in the metro, the City in particular - which is totally par for the course with regards to STL media.
Also not entirely sure what the comment about McKee are about - are they trying to say the City shouldn't be doing everything in its power to kick McKee's ass into gear and either develop or stop hoarding all the real estate that he's sitting on?
Also not entirely sure what the comment about McKee are about - are they trying to say the City shouldn't be doing everything in its power to kick McKee's ass into gear and either develop or stop hoarding all the real estate that he's sitting on?
Additional comments from Clayco's Bob Clark on blowing up the region's economic development agencies.DogtownBnR wrote: ↑Dec 03, 2019Not sure where this should go, but this article hits the nail on the head. Somebody forward this to our “leaders”!!
https://www.stltoday.com/business/colum ... 244d77e2ed
https://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/new ... s_headline
A big part of the problem, according to Clark, is that St. Louis has too many organizations with different agendas for advancing the region. "When we go to cities like Nashville and Indianapolis, the business community, political folk and neighborhood groups all say the same thing," he said. That's not the case in St. Louis, he said, where companies are getting mixed messages because each organization has its own strategy and competes with each other.
Last year, the Business Journal found that nine key organizations, including the St. Louis Economic Development Partnership, St. Louis Regional Chamber and St. Louis Development Corp., collect and spend about $78 million annually, but had little achievement to show for it. "I don't know why we have more than one," Clark said of the region's various economic development agencies, calling out the Regional Business Council and Civic Progress in particular during his comments. "It can't just stand the way it is ... we have to blow up the economic development agencies."
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Now there's some city-county consolidation that I would like to think everybody could get behind.
You would think but I bet you a dollar some will find a reason that it is not.KansasCitian wrote: ↑Dec 04, 2019Now there's some city-county consolidation that I would like to think everybody could get behind.
^^^Ha, except I think it needs about a half-dozen pilots as well to be a truly apt metaphor.
We Live Here and FocusStl Panel - What’s at Stake: Racial Equity and the Board of Electors
https://www.facebook.com/WeLiveHereSTL/videos/1043083566049409
https://www.facebook.com/WeLiveHereSTL/videos/1043083566049409
Freeholder means landowner. The last BoF in the late 80s was sued over it. It went all the way to the Supreme Court of the US, which ruled restricting the board to landowners was unconstitutional. Now they're called electors, which I think just means they are qualified to vote.
The BoF process is susceptible to litigation. It's been done so few times, that there's ample opportunity to sue over this and that to undercut it. I expect opponents to employ the strategy this time. Already you could sue over the city not seating its board members in the time proscribed by the MO constitution.
The BoF process is susceptible to litigation. It's been done so few times, that there's ample opportunity to sue over this and that to undercut it. I expect opponents to employ the strategy this time. Already you could sue over the city not seating its board members in the time proscribed by the MO constitution.
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Jesus, the mayor from Vinita Park seems like the perfect living example of why all these little munis should be dissolved or consolidated. And the fact that he's so dug in to opposition to any kind of merger points to how difficult it's going to be going forward to reach this goal.quincunx wrote: ↑Jan 24, 2020We Live Here and FocusStl Panel - What’s at Stake: Racial Equity and the Board of Electors
https://www.facebook.com/WeLiveHereSTL/videos/1043083566049409
I find it ironic how he touts the great things that come with merger (all the savings etc they've done with 24:1, those come with merger in more aspects in less time), cites the negative things that come with the ever-present hurdle lots of borders present, touts the merger of his town with Vinita Park, but should one suggest actually merging the 24 into one, no way we want our independence!
He may be right in that the only way to get mergers to happen is the process he described in the merger of the Vinitas, but people really need to realize that time is not on their side. The fragility and unaffordability of fragmentation and low-productivity auto-oriented development patterns is acute in the 24:1 area.
He may be right in that the only way to get mergers to happen is the process he described in the merger of the Vinitas, but people really need to realize that time is not on their side. The fragility and unaffordability of fragmentation and low-productivity auto-oriented development patterns is acute in the 24:1 area.
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Honestly, he may be too dim to realize it, but the great thing about the 24:1 initiative is that it puts in place something like a pseudo-unified government for those munis, because there is simply an economic imperative to do it. As that economic imperative intensifies, having these informal structures in place will make it all the more easy to formalize those structure and merge all government services in the Normandy District - hopefully sooner rather than later.
Meanwhile, the City STILL can't confirm their candidates for the board:
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/gov ... ad921.html
https://www.stltoday.com/opinion/editor ... 266aa.html
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/gov ... ad921.html
https://www.stltoday.com/opinion/editor ... 266aa.html
I have the suspicion that certain people on the Board are torpedoing this thing before it gets off the ground as favors to their friends in local government elsewhere in the region.
StL Public Radio - Mantovani Resigns From Freeholders Post As He Mulls Another Run For St. Louis County Executive
https://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/ma ... ve#stream/
https://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/ma ... ve#stream/
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I'm thinking the Better Together plan, as a starting point for changes, was the last best chance for a merger for this generation. I don't see anyone trying this again until at least 2050 or later. Sad.Ebsy wrote: ↑Jan 24, 2020I have the suspicion that certain people on the Board are torpedoing this thing before it gets off the ground as favors to their friends in local government elsewhere in the region.
Here we are in February, and the City STILL can't won't name their Board nominees.
StlToday - City Hall delay on freeholders board continues
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/gov ... 4e02a.html
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/gov ... 4e02a.html
"An aldermanic committee met Wednesday for the first time in three months to discuss the city’s delegation to the regional Board of Freeholders but remained at odds with Mayor Lyda Krewson over its makeup.
Instead of voting on a revised slate of nominees submitted by the mayor in November, the Intergovernmental Affairs Committee interviewed three other people whom some committee members want the mayor to add as further substitutions."
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/gov ... a5b8c.html
Instead of voting on a revised slate of nominees submitted by the mayor in November, the Intergovernmental Affairs Committee interviewed three other people whom some committee members want the mayor to add as further substitutions."
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/gov ... a5b8c.html
Another month, another delay. This is really, really infuriating:
"No action — again — by St. Louis aldermen on freeholder picks, pushing back decision another month"
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/gov ... 2dbc9.html
"No action — again — by St. Louis aldermen on freeholder picks, pushing back decision another month"
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/gov ... 2dbc9.html