The St. Louis city Board of Aldermen has kicked the can down the road after failing to allocate any of the Rams settlement money.
All city legislation allocating the near $300 million from the Rams was placed on the informal calendar during the board’s latest meeting, leaving the debate and negotiations to resume after the upcoming election and end of session. Despite failing to find consensus around her substitute to allocate $40 million for the water division, Alderwoman Anne Schweitzer wouldn’t go as far as saying the board failed.
“It’s moving things to the informal calendar,” she told KMOX Radio. “I wouldn’t call it a failure. I would call it, ‘that’s the decision of today.’”
That effort was killed when Alderman Rasheen Aldridge tied the $40 million to the Water Division to as much as $100 million for North City. He said St. Louis needs to pass a bill to allocate the funds as a whole.
“If we’re going to deliver results, we deliver results, and what residents have asked us to do and not piecemeal, because some alders don’t feel like we should be doing that,” he said.
Aldrich defended himself and other alders taking a selfie after the bills were put on the informal calendar by saying it was a group of alders coming together to stand up for North City.
Alderwoman Alisha Sonnier said she had enough votes to allocate the money before amendments made in committee crushed the compromise. Despite the board not finding consensus around any of the proposals in front of them, Sonnier said the agreement to step back and keep talking was a positive development.
“It is most important that we are able to assure the folks at home that your leaders care about you, that we’re censoring you, and even though other bodies may not have the ability to work together in your interest, we do,” she said.
The Rams spent 21 seasons in St. Louis, playing in what’s now known as The Dome at America’s Center before moving back to Los Angeles in 2016. The franchise won its first Super Bowl during its stint in St. Louis, beating the Tennessee Titans in Super Bowl XXXIV.
Sean Malone of KMOX Radio contributed this report.
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