MAHESH SHARMA APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS
At a special meeting of the City Council called by the Mayor on Saturday evening at 6pm, Mahesh Sharma was given a contract as the new Director of Public Works. The vote was 9-0 with Councilman Hoepfner absent. A starting date has not been set.
COUNCIL BALKS AS MAYOR SCHEDULES A SATURDAY ST. CHARLES CITY COUNCIL MEETING IN ST. LOUIS COUNTY
The Mayor had called a special City Council meeting for 10 am Saturday morning, January 28th to be held in Councilman Hoepfner’s hospital room in Missouri Baptist Hospital in St. Louis County. It was to be for the appointment of Mahesh Sharma as director of public works. That was promptly changed when several members of the Council balked and refused to hold a St. Charles City Council meeting in St. Louis County. Apparently the Mayor thought she did not have enough votes for the appointment and would need Councilman Hoepfner’s vote. I believe that determining the number of votes prior to a meeting is a violation of the sunshine law.
WILL KIELTY BE PROSECUTING ATTORNEY IN ST. PETERS?
A rumor running rampant throughout the County Courthouse is that Mayor Shawn Brown of St. Peters is planning on appointing Attorney Mike Kielty as the city’s prosecuting attorney. St. Peters is without a permanent prosecuting attorney since former St. Charles County Councilman and St. Peters prosecuting attorney Jeff Morrison resigned about a month ago. The appointment of Kielty will have to be approved by the St. Peters Board of Aldermen. Kielty is representing Citizens Empowerment Committee and the paid petition gatherers who solicited signatures on recall petitions in attempts to have St. Charles Councilwoman Dottie Greer and Councilman Mark Brown recalled. His father, Ken Kielty, a confidant of Mayor York, is a former St. Charles Councilman, former head of the St. Charles License Bureau until Governor Blount replaced him. He was the chairman of the St. Charles County Convention and Sports Facilities Commission until Blunt replaced him there. According to St. Charles police, a threatening phone call made to St. Charles resident Bob Bredensteiner was traced to a telephone belonging to Ken Kielty (FCN Volume 5 of 35 November 5, 2005). Ken Kielty along with St. Louis PR guru Glennon Jamboretz, also a confidant of Mayor York, started the St. Charles Citizens for Betterment Government Committee with a stated purpose of recalling St. Charles City Council persons. It is also believed that the Mayor diverted funds to several fictitious named companies under the control of Jamboretz, that was used in the recall efforts against Brown and Greer (see FCN Volume 5 Number 32, October 8, 2005). Jamborez and Kielty are also involved with the Great Rivers Habitat Alliance headed by Adolphus Busch IV who is fighting with the City of St. Peters over the 370 project.
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