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Lisa Clancy no longer to preside over County Council meetings Author: Christine Byers (KSDK) Updated: 12:36 PM CST March 2, 2021
ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. A judge has determined Rita Days is the chairwoman of the St. Louis County Council and Mark Harder is the vice-chair, despite efforts by former Council Chairwoman Lisa Clancy, Councilman Ernie Trakas and Councilwoman Kelli Dunaway to say otherwise.
Judge Thomas Albus ruled in favor of Days, Harder and their fellow council members Tim Fitch and Shalonda Webb, who voted in January to appoint Days as chairwoman and Harder as vice-chair.
Clancy, Trakas, Dunaway and outgoing Councilwoman Rochelle Walton Gray claimed Gray was still in office during the first meeting of the year even though Webb defeated her in the primary election in August.
County Leadership Opposes Air Surveillance in St. Louis, Mo.
As St. Louis lawmakers consider authorizing a controversial aerial surveillance program in the city, the St. Louis County Council is telling city officials they don t want any of those planes spying on the county. by Nassim Benchaabane, St. Louis Post-Dispatch / February 4, 2021 Shutterstock/enzozo
(TNS) As St. Louis, Mo., lawmakers consider authorizing a controversial aerial surveillance program in the city, the
St. Louis County Council is telling city officials they don t want any of those planes spying on the county.
The council on Tuesday voted 6-1 for a resolution sponsored by Councilwoman
Cristina Fletes / St. Louis County
Under the twin shadows of the insurrection in the U.S. Capitol and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, St. Louis County leaders took their oaths of office Tuesday in a ceremony streamed live on YouTube.
County Executive Sam Page; Councilwoman Shalonda Webb, D-St. Louis County; and Councilman Ernie Trakas, R-St. Louis County; participated in the official inauguration festivities. Councilwoman Kelli Dunaway, D-Chesterfield, held a private ceremony.
Page has held the county executive post since April 2019, when the council voted him into officeafter fellow Democrat Steve Stenger resigned while under investigation for corruption. The 2020 election was to fill the remainder of Stenger’s term Page would have to run again in 2022 for a full term.