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Personnel committee approves minutes, votes to enter closed session on employee matters
Summary
St. Louis City’s Board of Aldermen Personnel and Administration Committee on Dec. 23 approved minutes from Dec. 11 and voted to enter closed session to discuss hiring, firing, disciplining or promoting city employees under statutory provisions cited in the meeting.
The Board of Aldermen Personnel and Administration Committee met Dec. 23, 2025, at 10 a.m. and approved the minutes from its Dec. 11 meeting before voting to close part of the session to discuss personnel matters.
The meeting began when the presiding officer called the committee to order and the clerk conducted roll call. The clerk recorded responses for Alderman Cone, Alderman Clark Hubbard, Alderman Aldridge (the transcript shows an inconsistent spelling later as "Aldrich"), and President Green; the clerk announced a quorum.
During committee business, the presiding officer moved that “portions of the meeting of the Board of Aldermen's Personnel and Administration Committee be closed to the public under provisions of 6 10 dot 0 2 1 1 and section 6 10 dot 0 2 2 in order to permit the members of the committee to discuss matters relating to the hiring, firing, disciplining, or promoting of employees of the Board of Aldermen,” language taken verbatim from the transcript. The motion was seconded. The clerk called the roll and the motion passed with three recorded "aye" votes; the committee directed STLTV to place the meeting in closed session.
Before leaving open session, the committee approved the Dec. 11 minutes after a motion and second; the clerk recorded four "aye" votes for that motion. With no further business on the open agenda, members moved to adjourn and the committee ended the meeting.
The transcript contains several inconsistent name spellings (for example, "Aldridge" and later "Aldrich," and "Cone" vs. "Cohn" in a roll-call line). Where the transcript names are inconsistent, this article reports the names as recorded in the transcript and flags the inconsistency for the public record. The statutory citation was read aloud in the transcript as "6 10 dot 0 2 1 1 and section 6 10 dot 0 2 2"; the committee did not provide a written ordinance text in open session. The closed-session motion specifies personnel topics (hiring, firing, disciplining, promoting) and thus indicates the committee intended to discuss employee matters in private consistent with the motion language.
The meeting adjourned after the closed-session motion was approved. The presiding officer closed the public portion of the meeting with a holiday greeting.
