County executive reports EF1 tornado damage, flat sales tax; council adopts regional hazard mitigation plan

Jefferson County Executive provided the council an update on storm damage from an EF1 tornado and on recent revenue figures, and the council adopted the St. Louis regional hazard mitigation plan.

The executive said emergency management assessed damage after an EF1 tornado on June 7 in southern Jefferson County. Damage assessment identified six residential properties with impacts ranging “from purely cosmetic to partial roof loss,” and there were no reported injuries. The executive said Camp Nietez (a summer camp named in the report) had 77 campers scheduled and canceled operations for the week while crews cleared debris.

On county finances, the executive said this month’s sales-tax receipts were $1,487,000 compared with $1,508,000 in the same month last year; year-to-date sales-tax revenue was reported as up 1.616 percent. He also reported year-to-date recreational cannabis sales tax as $486,619 through June and said that number includes stacking and non-stacking receipts.

The council unanimously adopted Resolution R25-0653, which approves the 2025–2030 St. Louis Regional Hazard Mitigation Plan as Jefferson County’s hazard mitigation plan. Council members described the plan as a regional product coordinated through East-West Gateway and emergency-management organizations; the adoption vote was 7–0.

Council members also praised public-works crews for road clearances after the storm and noted ongoing repairs — the executive cited a severe failure on Romaine Creek Road and said the county’s public-works department was working on corrections. Council members noted Highway W recently reopened and thanked staff for traffic control and repairs.

No new appropriations tied directly to the storm response were adopted at the meeting; the council did approve several routine resolutions and budget amendments elsewhere on the agenda.