I made a Sunshine request for records relating to communications among members of the St. Louis Community Mobility Committee created by Resolution 233 in 2020. It appears that one or more voting members believe the Committee is not subject to Sunshine Laws and desire the Committee to detach itself from the City of St. Louis in order to not be subject to Sunshine Laws.
The request was made for emails over the last weekend and specific to one nonvoting member of the Community Mobility Committee. That was necessary because of the City’s not helpful by design Sunshine Portal. The Portal only acknowledges certain departments and agencies for document requests and one at a time. The Portal does not acknowledge the Committee.
The Community Mobility Committee uses a Google Group for communication between members, both voting and nonvoting members. A number of City employees are nonvoting members of the Committee or otherwise included in the Google Group, including but not limited to former Alder Christine Ingrassia, now Director or Operations, Board of Alders President Megan Green; John P. Kohler, P.E., Planning and Programming Manager; Grace Kyung, Senior Strategic Initiatives Manager for Mayor Tishaura O. Jones; Andrew Lackey, Deputy Commissioner, Office of the Disabled; former Alder Scott Ogilivie, now the Program Manager for Complete Streets at City’s Planning and Urban Development Agency; Betherny Williams, Director, Department of Streets; Jamie Wilson, P.E., Traffic Commissioner.
I chose to make a request for records received by Ogilivie. Random choice.
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