St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer said she would support merging city and county emergency management agencies during a press conference on Thursday.
She said she posed that question last week to regional leadership during an East-West Gateway Council of Governments meeting. Spencer said bringing together local entities would enable the region to “better utilize each other’s resources” when responding to natural disasters like the May 16 tornado.
“The St. Louis region needs to come together on a whole host of fronts, but emergency response is absolutely one of them,” Spencer said. “We should absolutely have some of that framework in place.”…