Board Members

Showing 7 active board members (maximum 7)

Name	Role	End Date
Sherrone Beatty	Member	12/31/2024
Bobbie Butterly	Member	12/31/2023 Serving Beyond Term
Sid Chakraverty	Member	12/31/2023 Serving Beyond Term
Neill Costello	Member	12/31/2022 Serving Beyond Term
Amy Grace	Member	12/31/2022 Serving Beyond Term
Kathryn Ruth	Member	12/31/2021 Serving Beyond Term
Charles Wiltsch	Member	12/31/2021 Serving Beyond Term

Authorizing Legislation

Ordinance 69916; Rev. Mo. Stat. 71.790-71.802

Board Duties and Purpose

To provide special police and/or security facilities, equipment, vehicles and/or personnel for the protection and enjoyment of the property owners and the general public within the District; to provide special cleaning facilities and personnel for the enjoyment of the property owners and the general public within the District; to landscape and plant trees, bushes and shrubbery, flowers and each and every other kind of decorative planting; to construct, install, improve and/or maintain pedestrian malls, plazas, streets, sidewalks, parks, bus stop shelters, lighting, benches, or other seating furniture, sculptures, traffic signs, fire hydrants, kiosks, trash receptacles, marquees, awnings, canopies, walls, fences, gates and barriers, paintings, murals, alleys, shelters, fountains, ramps, and each and every other useful or necessary or desired improvement; to promote activities in the District by, but not limited to, advertising, decoration of any public place in the area, promotion of public events which are to take place on or in public places, furnishing of music in any public place and the general promotion of activities in the District; to maintain any City-owned streets, alleys, malls, ramps, trees and decorative plantings of each and every nature, and any structure or object of any nature whatsoever constructed or operated by the city; to prohibit or restrict vehicular traffic on such streets and alleys within the District as the Board of Aldermen may deem necessary and to provide the means for access by emergency and refuse vehicles to or in such areas; to close existing City-owned streets or alleys or to open new streets and alleys or to widen or narrow existing City-owned streets and alleys in whole or in part within the District as the Board of Aldermen may deem necessary.

Member Requirements

Appointments require Board of Aldermen approval.

A. Membership:

The Board of Commissioners shall consist of seven members, and shall be appointed by the Mayor with the advice and consent of the Board of Aldermen, of whom five members shall be owners of real property within the District or their representatives and two members shall be renters within the District or their representatives; provided, however, that no employee or elected official of the City of St. Louis shall be a member of the Board of Commissioners.

B. Term of Office:

Each member of the Board of Commissioners shall serve for a 4-year term (except as provided herein with respect to the initial members), with terms expiring as of December 31st of the designated year or when their successors are appointed as provided herein, whichever is later.