The St. Louis Board of Aldermen met on Friday, October 3, 2025, at 10:00 AM in the Board of Aldermen Chambers. The meeting included resolutions honoring staff, appointments to boards and commissions, debate on data center regulations, and approvals of various board bills.
Sponsored by Alderman Narayan, this bill implements recommendations from the Chemical Safety Board following a 2017 boiler explosion at Loy-Lange Box Company that killed four people. The bill was perfected unanimously with co-sponsors added.
Alderman Aldridge presented a floor substitute adding two streets omitted in committee. The substitute and the bill were perfected unanimously.
Sponsored by Alderman Aldridge, this resolution calls on contractors and developers to honor existing MWBE commitments during the pause in program administration and comply with Executive Order 91. A town hall was held on September 27. The resolution was adopted unanimously after a motion to embank (pass temporarily) was carried.
Sponsored by Alderwoman Schweitzer, this resolution affirms Executive Order 92, which defines data centers as conditional uses and requires them to answer 40 questions before approval. The resolution replaced an earlier proposal for a moratorium.
The board will now come to order. Madame Clerk, please call the roll. Auto Woman Switzer. We have fifteen present. According being present, we will be led in an opening reflection by the founder, Rector of Operation. At this time, I would like to present Miss Shantasha Love, the director of business to our carry on with the prayer. If we could close our eyes, our heads. Father God, in the name of Jesus. First, Lord, we want to take time first to say thank you. Thank you for life. Thank you for waking us up this morning, clothing our right mind. Thank you for the activities of our limbs, God, and thank you, God, for another opportunity. Lord God, we thank you, God, for what we have experienced today. Thank you for the love that we felt already. Lord, and as we've gathered here today, God, I actually pray, God, for the vault for this board of Alderman. Lord God, we ask God that you would allow them, God, to serve from their hearts. Lord, we thank you, God, that you're even now you're protecting their family. God, as we pray, God, we ask that you will look upon their needs, God, if they serve this city. We thank you, God, in observance of domestic violence awareness month for every survivor. Lord, wrap your loving arms around them now, God, and help them understand that there is life after domestic violence. Lord, we thank you, God, even for those that are suffering right now in silence, God, that you would provide some form of silence. God, we thank you, God, that for those leaders that are in their area, their neighbors, God, their families, God, we thank you now that you're protecting them and you're giving them resources they need. Lord, and as we have come before you, God, we ask that you would help the city of St. Louis. God, we thank you, God, that even now you're going to help God with the crime and the val and the violence that's in our city. Protect this city, protect our children, God, in the name of Jesus. We thank you, and we praise you, and we love you. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you so much. And I would be remiss if I didn't also just recognize uh real quickly the amazing amount of work that Diamond Divas has done, even beyond domestic violence, but when it comes to recovery from the May 16th tornado. So I would ask if we can give a quick round of applause to Diamond Divas for all of we would like to gather on the steps for a picture for domestic violence awareness month. If we could please do that now. I get her down. Everyone else. Okay. Did you have something to say? No. I thought we were on our guess. Okay. This point in time we will dispense with the regular order of business to take up the courtesy resolution calendar. Alder Woman from the 7th, your recognized and the rules for the purposes of introducing resolution 127. Thank you, Madam President, members of the board. I would like to make a motion to suspend the ruse to introduce resolution resolution 127. Resolution 127. It's been moved by the older woman from the 7th, seconded by the older woman from the 6th. So we suspend the rules for the purposes of introducing resolution 127. This is a non-debatable motion.