Committee approves one-time lump-sum payments for Board of Aldermen staff

The St. Louis City Board of Aldermen Personnel and Administration Committee on June 10 approved a do-pass recommendation in committee for Board Bill 37, a proposal to provide a one-time lump-sum payment to staff of the Board of Aldermen.

Alderman Aldridge presented the bill to the committee, telling members the payment would be funded from unspent FY26 budget dollars and stressing the payment would go only to staff, not to elected officials. "This will only go to staff. I want to be very clear this would not go to the alder, it would not go to the president, not elected officials, but only staff at the Board of Aldermen," Alderman Aldridge said.

The chair and members had no substantive questions. A motion was made and seconded to attach the fiscal note to Board Bill 37 so the fiscal detail would be part of the bill package; the clerk then called the roll. Recorded affirmative votes on the fiscal-note attachment included Vice Chair Cole, Alderwoman Boyd, Alderman Aldridge, Alderman Devore, and President Green; the motion passed with five "aye" votes.

Alderman Aldridge thanked Deputy Chief Ingracia for helping prepare the legislation and the fiscal note, and asked the committee for a do-pass recommendation on the bill as amended. Following a motion and second to pass the bill with the committee's do-pass recommendation, the chair noted there was no objection and stated the motion passed. The meeting concluded with no additional resolutions and the committee adjourned.

The transcript records the committee's intention to fund a one-time lump-sum payment from unspent FY26 funds, but the specific dollar total for the payment is not clearly recorded in the meeting record and is therefore not specified here.