The Board of Aldermen convened a special meeting on Dec. 27, 2024, and voted to enter a closed session under RSMO 610.021.3 to consider hiring, firing, discipline or promotion of particular employees.

The chair opened the meeting, the clerk called the roll and the Pledge of Allegiance was recited. With no public participation cards submitted, the chair asked for a motion to go into closed session under RSMO 610.021.3, the Missouri statute that permits closed deliberations when personal information about specific employees will be discussed or recorded.

A motion to enter closed session was recorded; the clerk identified Alderman Cleave as the mover and Alderman Madrigal as the seconder. The clerk then called a roll-call vote. The transcript records affirmative votes in the clerk's roll-call sequence from the following names as spoken on the record during the vote: Alderman Cali; Alderman Cleave; Alderman Madrigal; Alderman Stewart; Alderman Meadows; and Alderman Loesch. The chair announced, “With a vote of 6 to 0, the ayes have it, and we will now go into closed session.”

The public portion of the special meeting ended with the Board moving into closed session; no other substantive agenda items or public comments were discussed on the record prior to the closed session. The transcript does not record any substantive debate about the personnel matter on the public record, nor does it provide details about the employee(s) to be discussed.

The meeting materials and transcript use slightly inconsistent spellings for some names called during roll call (for example, the clerk first called “Alderman Kelly” and later during the vote sequence the clerk says “Alderman Cali”; similarly the clerk recorded both “Alderman Lesh” and later “Alderman Loesch”). Those discrepancies appear in the provided transcript and are noted here rather than corrected; the article attributes votes and procedural actions only to the names as they appear in the roll-call and vote sequence in the record. No substantive personnel details were recorded in the public portion of the meeting.