Board of Aldermen perfects $1.41 billion city budget; approves transit funding, speed humps, and appointments
The St. Louis Board of Aldermen took its biggest fiscal step of the season June 22, perfecting a $1,414,518,852 appropriations bill for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2026. The vote to perfect Board Bill #1AAIC was 10-5, following a 14-0 vote to move the bill to the Perfection Calendar. The bill sets city tax rates and funds city government operations, the Water Division, and various trust funds.
Budget and transit funding
On June 26, the Board unanimously approved $13.5 million in transit sales tax funding for the Bi-State Development Agency for FY 2026-2027. The Board also unanimously approved a First Amendment Lease Agreement with United Fruit and Produce Company at 5 Clinton Street. Under the lease amendment discussed by the Transportation & Commerce Committee, the five-year term starts at $1,192.50 per year with 3% annual increases and includes three mutual five-year extension options.
The Transportation & Commerce Committee had also reviewed two separate appropriations of $13,529,900 each from the City Public Transit Sales Tax Trust Fund Accounts ONE and TWO to Bi-State Development Agency, plus an airport revenue bond bill whose dollar ceiling was left blank in the agenda.
Speed humps approved across multiple wards
The Board unanimously approved speed hump installations on three sets of blocks: the 4300 block of West Pine Boulevard; the 5000, 5100, and 5200 blocks of Ridge Ave; and various blocks in the 6th Ward. The Public Infrastructure & Utilities Committee had previously reviewed these traffic-calming requests along with a conditional vacation of rights for Marion Street from 10th Street eastwardly to I-44.
Appointments confirmed
Mayor Spencer's appointments to the Library Board were unanimously approved, as were reappointments to the Forest Park Advisory Board. The Board unanimously sent Mayor's Forest Park appointments to the Health and Human Development Committee for further review. Separately, the Health & Human Development Committee reviewed the mayoral appointment of Dr. Karl Wilson to the Senior Citizens' Service Fund Board and received a presentation from the Recreation Department.
Committee discussions: data centers, redevelopment, and charter changes
Several committees held agenda-only meetings where no votes are recorded in the available record.
The Housing, Urban Development & Zoning Committee reviewed a $15.4 million Tiffany Scattered Sites II Redevelopment Plan to renovate 21 buildings in the Tiffany Neighborhood for 60 affordable units. The committee also discussed an ordinance defining Community Development Corporations for funding eligibility and zoning code amendments creating comprehensive regulations for data centers, including a proposal to prohibit tax incentives for data centers.
The Legislation & Rules Committee reviewed Board Bill 36, a proposed Charter amendment that would make the City Counselor a mayoral appointment subject to Board approval. The committee also discussed mayoral appointments to the Library Board — Sharon Shahid, Kathy Surratt-States, and Gregory Glore — and the engrossment of Board Bills 33 and 43 as amended.
The Budget & Public Employees Committee reviewed Board Bill Number 32, which would authorize the Office of the President of the Board of Aldermen to accept a subaward from the Bloomberg Philanthropies' American Sustainable Cities initiative for the Youth Climate Action Fund.
Rams Settlement Funds and mobile food vendors on the horizon
On July 2, the Board of Aldermen's agenda included Board Bill #22AAFL, which would appropriate $255,000,000.00 in Rams Settlement Funds for North St. Louis rebuilding, citywide infrastructure, and Downtown revitalization. The same agenda included updated mobile food vendor regulations under Board Bill #50CSAAIC and a reappropriation of $3,067,086.60 for water infrastructure and food assistance. No minutes are available yet for this meeting.
Coming up
- **July 7 — Housing, Urban Development & Zoning Committee:** Public comment on Board Bill 49AAIC, which would add Section 26.77 to the zoning code creating comprehensive regulations for data centers. Introduced by Alderwoman Anne Schweitzer; approved by the Planning Commission on June 10, 2026.
- **July 8 — Public Infrastructure & Utilities Committee:** Discussion and public comment on a board bill directing the Director of Streets to install speed humps on certain blocks in the Fourteenth Ward.
- **July 9 — Health & Human Development Committee:** Discussion and public comment on three mayoral appointments to the Forest Park Advisory Board: Vin Zo, Maria Kveton, and Barry Rosenberg.
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