Committee engrosses Board Bill 22; adds metric deadlines and public-reporting requirements

The St. Louis Board of Aldermen Legislation and Rules Committee on June 26, 2026, voted to engross Board Bill 22, the RAM settlement bill, after the clerk confirmed incorporation of two floor amendments that add deadlines for metric development and explicit public-reporting requirements.

Committee Chair Velasquez opened the 12:12 p.m. meeting and asked the clerk to call the roll; a quorum was confirmed. The clerk told the committee that Amendment 2 (sponsored on the floor by President Green) and Amendment 15 (sponsored by Alderwoman Sier) had not been included in an earlier printed copy and that staff, the president's office and legal counsel had re-reviewed the bill to incorporate those changes.

Madame Clerk read the red-line language showing Amendment 2’s changes, including wording that 'at its first quarterly meeting the recovery office shall develop and present proposed metrics' and that 'all quarterly and annual reports required under this section shall be made publicly available on the city's website.' The clerk confirmed similar six-month metric-development timelines and public-reporting language were added for the Board of Public Service and for the Department of Public Safety in separate sections of the engrossed text.

On Amendment 15, the clerk described and corrected a clerical page-numbering error and confirmed the insertion of a paragraph establishing a committee-related reporting window 'between December 1 and December 31 of each calendar year until the relevant funds are exhausted.' The clerk also confirmed that Amendment 15’s implementation and reporting subsections (A–F) were included.

After the clerk reviewed attachments and exhibits and confirmed that legal and financial reviews had been completed and that exhibits were incorporated and section numbering was correct, Chair Velasquez asked for a motion 'to fully engross Board Bill 22 as amended on the floor.' A motion and a second were made, the clerk called the roll and the clerk reported 'four I votes'; the chair announced the bill had been successfully engrossed as amended on the floor.

The committee recorded no written testimony on the bill. Members thanked the clerk and staff for accurately capturing the short-order amendments; no substantive questions were recorded during the discussion. The meeting later took routine motions to excuse absent members and adjourned.

What the engrossed amendments do: The incorporated amendments require — for the Recovery Office, the Board of Public Service and the Department of Public Safety — that proposed metrics be developed within six months of the ordinance’s passage and that required quarterly and annual reports be made publicly available on the city's website. Amendment 15 also adds a December reporting window tied to available ("relevant") funds until those funds are exhausted, and includes implementation and reporting subsections A–F that were incorporated into the final engrossed text.

Next steps: The committee engrossed the bill and referred the next procedural steps (final enrollment/placement on a board calendar) to the appropriate officers; no vote information beyond the committee roll call was recorded in the transcript.