Ordinances by Topic Neighborhood Programs and Events

An Ordinance recommended by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, authorizing and directing an appropriation in the total amount of Thirty Million and 0/100ths ($30,000,000.00) Dollars of Rams Settlement Funds for deposit into the Tornado Relief and Recovery Fund.

This board bill is being introduced to remove a certain undeveloped parcel of land from the Carondelet Commons Community Improvement District (the “CID”). The removal of this parcel from the District is being done at the request of the owner of the Parcel in connection with the proposed sale of the Parcel to a new owner that does not wish to participate in the CID. Approval of this Board Bill is part of the required procedures for removing a parcel from the boundaries of an existing community improvement district, as set forth in section 67.1441.1 of the CID Act.

The purpose of this Board Bill is to expand the Soulard Community Improvement District (the “CID”). This Board Bill will approve the Petition to Amend the Petition to Establish the Soulard Community Improvement District (the “Petition”) which proposes the addition of property to the CID’s territory. Some 520 parcels are included in the existing CID, and this Board Bill adds approximately 500 additional parcels to the CID. This Board Bill extends the CID’s southern boundary to Lynch Street (from current southern boundaries Sidney Street and Ann Ave); the expanded CID’s other boundaries are 1-55 and 18th Street to the west, I-55 and Marion St. to the north, 3rd Street and Broadway to the east. The Petition was signed by over 50% of the property owners within the CID per capita (approx. 59%) and by assessed value (approx. 63%), as required by the CID Act, and has been filed with and approved by the City Register’s Office. This Board Bill does not change the CID’s duration, powers, status as a political subdivision, or the requirements to serve on the board of directors, all of which will remain the same.

This Board Bill An ordinance approves the dissolution of the Cherokee-Lemp Special Business District by repealing Ordinance Number 63957.

An ordinance approving the Petition of owners of real property seeking the creation and establishment of The Downtown North Stl Community Improvement District, Inc.; finding a public purpose for the creation and establishment of The Downtown North Stl Community Improvement District, Inc.; and containing a severability clause and an emergency clause.

This Board Bill proposes an ordinance recommended by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment authorizing the Police Commissioner, on behalf of the City of Saint Louis, to enter into and execute a Grant Agreement with the Missouri Department of Public Safety’s Project Safe Neighborhoods 2021 program to fund the training of officers in the Gang Task Force as well as needed supplies for the unit and equipment, which began with the 2019 Project Safe Neighborhoods grant, appropriating funds therefore, and authorizing the Police Commissioner, or his designees, to enter into contracts and expend the funds, to the extent received; containing a severability clause and an emergency clause.

The Board Bill approves the petition of owners of certain real property to create a Community Improvement District, to be known as the Grand Center East Community Improvement District.

This Board Bill seeks to approve a Chapter 99 Redevelopment Plan and Blighting Study for the JeffVanderLou Scattered Sites Redevelopment Area. It is anticipated that there will be at least three projects developed in the Area. The projects will include the renovation of a commercial building and construction of 34 senior housing units and retail. The commercial building will house a location of the Negro League Baseball Museum. Estimated cost of development is $17.6 million. This Board Bill will allow up to fifteen (15) years of tax abatement (10 years based on 90 percent of the assessed value of the incremental improvements and followed 5 years based on 50 percent of the assessed value of the incremental improvements).

This board bill is being introduced to establish the 2601 Market Community Improvement District (the “District”). The District will be comprised of a single parcel of property with a common street address of 2601 Market, St. Louis, MO 63103 (the “District Property”), which is generally located at northwest corner of the intersection of Market Street and Jefferson Avenue in Downtown West. The principal objective and purpose of the District is to provide a mechanism to provide funds to finance the District’s Projects, which will involve the redevelopment of the District Property through the construction of certain improvements in order to prepare the District Property for commercial uses. The District will cause the design and implementation of various District Projects located within the District Property. Such improvements may be undertaken in multiple phases or may occur in one phase. The contemplated improvements could consist of the construction, reconstruction, installation, repair and maintenance of any of the improvements and the provision of any of the services permitted by the Act including, but not necessarily limited to: (a) Removal, renovation, reconstruction, rehabilitation, or demolition of any buildings or structures within the blighted area of the District; (b) Repairing, maintaining and equipping of any buildings or structures within the District; (c) Any utility infrastructure; (d) Drainage, water, sewer, storm and sewer systems; (e) Convention center and meeting facilities; (f) Parking lots, garages or other traffic and parking improvements; (g) Sidewalks, streets and alleys; (h) Landscaping, hardscaping, pedestrian plazas and lighting; (i) Facility signage (roadway and monument); (j) Preparation and implementation of the District Projects; (k) Employing and/or contracting for personnel and services necessary to carry out the purposes of the District, including, but not limited to security personnel and security services, maintenance services, advertising, or assistance to attract further investment within the District; and (l) All other useful, necessary or desired site improvements. Under the terms of the District’s Petition, to be adopted by this Board Bill, the District shall terminate on the date the District will have reached its twenty-seventh (27th) year of existence as measured from the effective date of the City Ordinance establishing the District. For example, if the District is formed by a City ordinance effective on April 1, 2024, the District would terminate pursuant to this section as of March 31, 2051. Pursuant to the Petition and Section 67.1545 of the CID Act, RSMo, the District shall have the power to impose a District sales tax on all retail sales made within the District that are subject to taxation at a rate not to exceed one percent (1%) and to impose a special assessment in an amount not to exceed $5.00 per occupied sleeping room per night in any hotel, motel, inn or other place in which sleeping rooms are available to the public that is operated within the District. The District will also have all the authority and powers granted by the CID Act and as otherwise provided by law unless limited in the Petition or the District’s Five-Year Management Plan.

An ordinance recommended by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment appropriating $15,300,000 of interest funds earned on the City’s funds received under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, Pub. L. No. 117-2 (March 11, 2021) (ARPA); and authorizing the transfer of such funds for Convention Center project purposes; containing a severability clause; and containing an emergency clause.

A. The overall purpose and/or reasons for the bill. The purpose of this bill is to authorize the City of St. Louis, by and through the Division of Human Services (“DHS”), on behalf of the City of St. Louis, for the St. Louis Area Agency on Aging to enter into a contract agreement with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services to increase meal production and infrastructure. Attached is Exhibit A, the Meal Expansion Subaward and Scope of Work. The Department of Human Services via the St. Louis Area Agency on Aging (SLAAA) staff and subcontractors will plan and implement meal expansion and infrastructure for the senior nutrition program which will benefit persons over the age of 60 and adults living with disabilities that receive meals at or from multiple senior centers and nutrition sites throughout the City of St. Louis. The term of this award agreement begins on July 1, 2023 and lasts until June 30, 2024. SLAAA and its subcontractors will use the award to purchase commercial stoves, additional freezers, generators, and other necessary equipment to improve the senior nutrition program. The City of St. Louis will receive an award in the amount of $305,000. B. What the bill will do. This bill authorizes the Department of Human Services through the St. Louis Area Agency on Aging to enter into the contract agreement for 1 year with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. C. The main components of the bill. This includes an overview of its significant provisions and/or sections. Allow the Department of Human Services through the St. Louis Area Agency on Aging to enter into the contract agreement to increase meal production and make improvements for the senior nutrition program. D. The impact the bill will have on the community. This will allow SLAAA and contracted service providers to expand meal capacity and infrastructure to help seniors access nutrition services.

An ordinance extending Ordinance Number 63481, approved on June 2, 1995, and in lieu thereof a new paragraph is enacted extending the period of time during which the Westminster/Lake Special Business District shall be permitted to collect the tax within the boundaries of the district therein established; submit to the qualified voters residing in the Westminster/Lake Special Business District a proposal to continue the levy of a tax on the real property located in said district for ten years; submitting said proposal to the voters of said district at the Primary Election on August 6, 2024.

An ordinance extending Ordinance Number 63483, approved on June 2, 1995, and in lieu thereof a new paragraph is enacted extending the period of time during which the Washington Place Special Business District shall be permitted to collect the tax within the boundaries of the district therein established; submit to the qualified voters residing in the Washington Place Special Business District a proposal to continue the levy of a tax on the real property located in said district for ten years; submitting said proposal to the voters of said district at the Primary Election on August 6, 2024.

The proposed bill pertains to the U.S. YouthBuild grant. The bill approves the acceptance of the U.S. Department of Labor’s award of One Million Two Hundred Forty-Four Thousand Five Hundred Three Dollars ($1,244,503.00) for the purpose of carrying out the YouthBuild program. The bill appropriates the funds and authorizes the Director of the St. Louis Agency on Training and Employment to make, negotiate, and execute any and all contracts or other documents on behalf of the City, which are necessary to expend such funds and to expend such funds for the purposes allowed by the U.S. Department of Labor for the YouthBuild Grant. The bill also contains an emergency clause as it relates to current funding of program.

An ordinance renewing the Gardenside Subdivision Special Business District pursuant to Sections 71.790 through 71.808 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, setting its boundaries, tax rate, initial rate of levy subject to the approval of the qualified voters, bonding authority, and uses to which tax revenue may be put; creating a board of commissioners; and containing severability, effectiveness, and emergency clauses.

An ordinance directing the St. Louis Development Corporation (SLDC) to complete an annual City Economic Growth Strategy Report (the “Report”) and present the findings of the Report to members of the Board of Aldermen and the Board of Aldermen Financial Analyst.

An ordinance recommended by the Board of Public Service authorizing the 2018 St. Louis Works and the 50/50 Sidewalk Programs City Wide providing for the construction and reconstruction of gutters, streets, driveways, spot curbs, sidewalks, alleys, traffic controls, beautification, tree planting, resurfacing and related engineering adjustments listed herein, appropriating $5,300,000.00 from the Street Improvement Fund; containing sections for description of the work, approval of plans and specifications, work and material guarantees, estimated costs from City funds and supplemental agreements and reversion authorizations, applicable state and federal wage rate requirements, equal opportunity provisions, the Mayor's Executive Orders, contract advertising statutes, and a public work emergency 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 #51 Introduced by Ald. Joseph Roddy AN ORDINANCE APPROVING THE PETITION TO ESTABLISH THE 4101 LACLEDE COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT, ESTABLISHING THE 4101 LACLEDE COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT, AND FINDING A PUBLIC PURPOSE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE 4101 LACLEDE COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT.