The St. Louis Board of Aldermen starts a new legislative session Tuesday that is shaping up to be one of the busiest and most complicated in recent memory.
The board will meet to take care of organizational matters such as rules for the chamber and hiring staff on the first day of the session. Bills can be introduced starting May 1.
The first board bill is always the budget. Departments regularly ask for more money than the city can spend, but the spending picture for the fiscal year that starts July 1 is even more complicated because the city is not sure how much it has to spend on the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department…