Lake Saint Louis Board Members Reject Appointment
"It’s one of the most idiotic things I’ve seen this board do. I’ll go on record with that," said Ward 2 Alderman Kathy Schweikert.
At the last regular meeting of 2012, Lake Saint Louis Mayor Mike Potter put a slate of appointees for city boards and commissions in front of the board of aldermen for approval. The only appointment that failed to be approved was former alderman John Pellerito. Pellerito, who lost his Ward 3 seat to Richard Morris last year, was one of Potter's choices to sit on the city's Tree Board. When the time came for the motion to be made to approve the appointments, Ward 3 Alderman George Rich moved for all the appointments except for the tree board to be approved. When his omission was pointed out, Rich named the other Tree Board appointment, but left Pellerito out of the motion. "John is very qualified, and we need people," Potter said, but Rich …
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Karen Clark
7:05 pm on Sunday, January 6, 2013
Thank you, Doug. Yes, I was very involved in the Edgewater situation, which involved going door-to-door, meeting with fellow residents, conducting research, writing letters and attending meetings. It was when researching the Tree City designation for a column in the Journal that I discovered that the Edgewater development would be in violation of our own city ordinances. I immediately sent emails… more ›