By Tony Brockmeyer
The First Capitol News has learned that St. Charles Mayor Patti York is being furnished police officers as bodyguard/drivers. A source at City Hall told us the officers, who are usually off duty, are paid overtime which amounts to approximately $45 an hour. Our source told us the Mayor provided the police department with a list of special officers, who in her opinion, were acceptable to act as her bodyguard/driver.
Neither Mayor York or City Administrator Allan Williams responded to our requests for information about who authorized the bodyguard/drivers or why it was felt the Mayor needed protection.
In the metropolitan area only St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay and Florissant Mayor and former Chief of Police Robert G. Lowery have police officers who act as bodyguards.
