Ordinances by Topic Sports and Recreation

This Board Bill approves a petition to amend the boundaries of the existing Soccer Stadium Community Improvement District (the “District”) to conform with the current platting of the area. The District was originally formed in 2020 by Ordinance No. 71185. Property within the District was replatted after the District was originally formed to accommodate the development of the soccer stadium and related parking, practice and team facilities. If this Board Bill is approved, certain excess property resulting the relocation of public rights-of-way associated with the construction of the soccer stadium will be removed from the District and certain property included in the footprint of the soccer stadium will be added to the District.

An ordinance amending ordinance number 68481 to create a limited exemption for convention facilities within the City of St. Louis for certain private events or trade shows. The exemption applies only under specified circumstances and is intended to allow flexibility for convention-related activities while maintaining the overall purpose and enforceability of existing regulations; including a severability clause.

BOARD BILL NO. 123 INTRODUCED BY: Alderman Joseph Roddy An ordinance, recommended by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, authorizing the Mayor of the City of St. Louis, on behalf of the City, to submit a 2018 Annual Action Plan to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development ("HUD") as required to apply for funding under the Federal Community Development Block Grant ("CDBG"), HOME Investment Partnership ("HOME"), Emergency Solutions Grant ("ESG") and Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS ("HOPWA") Entitlement Programs, authorizing and directing the Mayor and the Comptroller on behalf of the City to enter into and execute agreements with HUD for the receipt of 2018 CDBG, HOME, ESG and HOPWA funds, appropriating the sum of Fifteen Million, Six Hundred Twenty-Four Thousand, Three Hundred and Ninety-Eight Dollars ($15,624,398) which the City estimates will be available for the 2018 CDBG Program Year; appropriating the sum of Two Million, One Thousand, One Hundred and Forty-Six Dollars ($2,001,146) which the City estimates will be available for the 2018 HOME Program Year; appropriating the sum of One Million, Four Hundred Ninety-Four Thousand, Six Hundred and Twenty Dollars ($1,494,620) which the City estimates will be available for the 2018 ESG Program Year; and appropriating the sum of One Million, Six Hundred Ten Thousand, Seven Hundred and Thirty-Three Dollars ($1,610,733) which the City estimates will be available for the 2018 HOPWA Program Year, authorizing and directing the Director of the Community Development Administration ("CDA") to contract with municipal agencies, non-profit corporations and other entities, as necessary for the expenditure of CDBG and HOME funds, to establish and implement a lump sum drawdown procedure for the purpose of financing property rehabilitation activities, to establish and implement a program to guarantee in whole or in part construction loans from private financial institutions, and/or to establish and implement a procedure for providing financial assistance to CDBG-eligible undertakings through float loan financing, authorizing and directing the Director of the Department of Human Services ("DHS") to contract with municipal agencies, non-profit corporations and other entities, as necessary for the expenditure of ESG funds, authorizing and directing the Director of Health and Hospitals to contract with municipal agencies, non-profit corporations and other entities, as necessary for the expenditure of HOPWA funds, and directing the Comptroller to issue warrants thereon upon the City Treasury; and containing an emergency clause.

BOARD BILL NO. 294 INTRODUCED BY: ALDERWOMAN FLOWERS An ordinance prohibiting use of smokeless tobacco at professional, collegiate, high school and organized amateur sporting events.

BOARD BILL N0. 219 INTRODUCED BY ALDERWOMAN TAMMIKA HUBBARD, ALDERMAN JOHN COATAR, ALDERMAN KENNETH ORTMANN An ordinance recommended by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment and the Board of Public Service authorizing and directing the execution and delivery of a St. Louis Riverfront Stadium Project Financing, Construction and Lease Agreement (the “Financing Agreement”) by and among The City of St. Louis, Missouri (the “City), the Regional Convention and Sports Complex Authority (the “Authority”), and the State of Missouri (the “State”, and collectively with the City, the “Sponsors”), pertaining to the design, construction, financing and leasing of a new professional sports facility designed to host professional football and other sporting, recreational, and entertainment events, and issuance of and provision for repayment of bonds issued by the Authority to finance said facility; authorizing the planning, design and construction of certain public works or improvements; authorizing and directing the Mayor and the Comptroller to enter into and execute, on behalf of the City, said Financing Agreement; authorizing and directing the taking of other actions and approvals and execution of other documents as necessary or desirable to carry out and comply with the intent hereof; and containing an emergency clause and a severability clause.