Note: The meeting was called to order on Wednesday, September 23, 2026 at 3:30 p.m. but the assigned date for this summary is September 24, 2026. The transcript indicates the meeting likely continued into the evening.
The Public Infrastructure and Utilities Committee convened to discuss four board bills: a major overhaul of the city's traffic calming process, a restructuring of the St. Louis Works street improvement fund, and two routine speed hump installation bills. The meeting featured extensive debate on equity, transparency, and the transition toward a new Department of Transportation (DOT).
Board Bill 75 – Neighborhood Implementation Traffic Calming System (Introduced by Alderman Browning):
Board Bill 78 – St. Louis Works Fund Restructuring (Introduced by Alderman Devotee):
Board Bills 71 and 69 – Speed Hump Installations:
Good afternoon. Calling to order the public infrastructure and utilities committee meeting for today, Wednesday, September 23rd. It's uh 3 30 p.m. Madam Cork. Would you please call roll? Alderwoman Boyd. Present. Alderwoman Clark Hubbard. Here. Vice Chair Sweitzer. Alderman Devotee. Present. Alderwoman Cox Antwerp Chair Browning. Present. Alderwoman Cox and Twee. We have five present. Thank you. With that, uh, we will move on to approval of the minutes. I'll accept a motion to approve the minutes from Wednesday, September 9th, 2026. I move to approve the minutes from Wednesday, September 9th, 2026. Second. So moved by the Alderwoman from the first, seconded by the Alderman from the 13th. Madam Cork, please call roll. Alderwoman Boyd. Aye. Alderwoman Clark Hilbert. Aye. Vice Chair Sweitzer. Aye. Alderman Devotee. Aye. Alderwoman Coxantwe. Chair Brownie. Aye. Alderwoman Cox Antwick. We have five I votes. Thank you. With that, we'll move on to board bills for review. We have uh members of our departments here today for a couple different bills. And so we're gonna move the agenda around to respect their time and do those bills first. Uh so we will start with board bill 75, which is my board bill, and I will hand over the chairmanship to my vice chair, Alderman Schweitzer. Thank you, Chair Browning. We you are recognized on Board Bill 75. Thank you. Uh Madam Cork, if you would uh read the summary Board Bill 75, introduced by Alderman Michael Browning, an ordinance pertaining to a neighborhood implementation traffic calming system in the city of St. Louis and establishing procedures for constituent requests for traffic calming and the process for implementation containing definitions, an effective date, and a severability clause. Thank you. So this board bill is uh something that we've been working on for the past two years. We've been working closely with the departments, and um I want to give a shout out to Caitlin Smith, the mayor's policy advisor, who worked on this when she was in my office and then continue to work on this uh in the mayor's office. And uh through that work, we've been able to move this to a place where the departments feel like they can implement it.