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By JESSICA MESZAROS
The Chesterfield City Council has
reversed a previous council decision and
voted to rescind the use of $3,000 in taxpayer
funds for a “Meet the Legislators”
event scheduled for July 22 at Chesterfield
Amphitheater.
Early in March, Mayor Bob Nation
and the council, on a 6-2 vote, authorized
spending up to $3,000 taxpayer funds for
the event, which would serve as a working
session and social gathering for West
County municipal officials and state representatives
and senators. In March, the
council also approved holding the event
during the “Yacht Rock” concert at the
Chesterfield Amphitheater. Those votes
followed a positive recommendation on
the issue from the council’s Finance and
Administration [F&A] Committee.
However, after the election of new
councilmembers this past April, the F&A
committee, on May 8, reversed its original
decision and voted 3-1 to recommend that
the city council not use taxpayer funds for
the meet-and-greet event.
The council took up the issue at its May
15 meeting with Nation absent and Councilmember
Dan Hurt [Ward 3] serving as
president pro tem. Some councilmembers
were hesitant to approve the use of $3,000 in
taxpayer funds and cited possible concerns
about how the public might perceive the city
using those funds to host a private gathering.
But supporters of funding the event said
the meet-and-greet would allow the city of
Chesterfield to further relationships with
surrounding municipalities as well as state
leaders and referred to the event as a working
session instead of a party.
“It was put together as a working event
for us, as the elected representatives of the
people of Chesterfield, to host members
from the surrounding municipalities, who
are in the capacity of an elected official,
alderman, councilperson and mayor, or city
administrators from other cities, with the
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Chesterfield seeks to build relationships
without use of taxpayer funds
Chesterfield City Council at its May 15 meeting.
purpose of there being a working session
and not a party,” Councilmember Randy
Logan [Ward 3] said. “I didn’t see anywhere
that we were going to get party hats
or anything.”
However, Councilmember Ben Keathley
[Ward 2] said, “I think it’s great to build
relationships with our councilmembers and
fellow councilpersons and state legislators,
but I question the rationality of the idea
that we have to spend thousands of dollars
to do it.
“Mr. [Bruce] DeGroot, our state representative
for Missouri, is [in the audience]
today and nobody is paying him to be here.
This is how we build those connections
with those kinds of representatives and
other government officials.”
DeGroot, a former Chesterfield councilmember,
won the District 101 seat in the
Missouri House in November 2016.
Hurt proposed the possibility of using
private donations to the city from anonymous
donors to fund the event, allowing
the event to receive funding without the
use of taxpayer money. According to City
Attorney Chris Graville, the donations only
would be able to remain truly anonymous
if they were given to the city in the form
of cash.
Councilmember Guy Tilman [Ward 2]
offered an amendment to simplify the
event by eliminating all sources of funding
and suggesting that politicians and
other visitors bring their own refreshments
or purchase them from the amphitheater’s
concession stand on the day of
the event.
“Let’s keep the money out of it,” Tilman
said. “If people show up and we have a
great event out of this, we’ll revisit it next
year, but let’s remove the entire mystique
and let’s just keep it simple. Let’s have the
event and see what happens. Bring your
wallet, and if you want to buy something,
pay for it yourself or bring a picnic basket.
“We’ll see if we can build some relationships.”