St. Louis’ City Emergency Management Agency is without proper funding and staff and is operating with an emergency operations plan that hasn’t been updated in more than 20 years as the region enters into what has recently been the busiest months for tornadoes.
The agency has largely remained unchanged in the 10 months since a tornado cut a swath of destruction through north St. Louis.
But on Wednesday, the Board of Estimate and Apportionment approved the transfer of some positions within the Department of Public Safety, which CEMA is housed under, to provide the struggling agency with one more staffer…