Ordinances by Topic Youth Employment

This bill, recommended by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, authorizes and directs the Mayor and Comptroller of the City of St. Louis, on behalf of the City, to enter into and execute an agreement or agreements with the Missouri Department of Transportation (“MODOT”) for the receipt of MODOT Highway Safety Grant funding; appropriating the sum of Sixty Thousand Dollars ($60,000) which the City has been awarded as a MODOT Highway Safety Grant for the purpose of implementing a pilot program for driver’s education for low-income students enrolled in the St. Louis Public Schools; authorizing and directing the Director of the Department of Public Safety (“DPS”) to contract with municipal agencies, non-profit corporations and other entities, as necessary for the expenditure of the Highway Safety Grant Funding; and directing the Comptroller to issue warrants thereon upon the City Treasury; containing an emergency clause.

The proposed bill pertains to the award of a grant from the State of Missouri. The bill approves the acceptance of the State of Missouri’s grant of One Million Dollars ($1,000,000.00) for a year-around paid jobs, internships and job training for youth residing in the City of St. Louis. The bill appropriates the funds and authorizes the Director of the St. Louis Agency on Training and Employment to make, negotiate, and execute any and all contracts or other documents on behalf of the City, which are necessary to expend such funds and to expend such funds for the purposes allowed by the State of Missouri. The bill also contains an emergency clause as it relates to the funding of a program.

The proposed bill pertains to the U.S. YouthBuild grant. The bill approves the acceptance of the U.S. Department of Labor’s award of One Million Two Hundred Forty-Four Thousand Five Hundred Three Dollars ($1,244,503.00) for the purpose of carrying out the YouthBuild program. The bill appropriates the funds and authorizes the Director of the St. Louis Agency on Training and Employment to make, negotiate, and execute any and all contracts or other documents on behalf of the City, which are necessary to expend such funds and to expend such funds for the purposes allowed by the U.S. Department of Labor for the YouthBuild Grant. The bill also contains an emergency clause as it relates to current funding of program.

An Ordinance for the creation of a disconnected youth task force to study the obstacles to education and employment to disconnected youth in the City of St. Louis, and requiring said task force to compile a report of their findings and recommendations to be submitted to the Mayor and a Board of Aldermen standing committee to be designated by the President of the Board of Aldermen, within one (1) year following the first meeting of the task force.