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My Priorities are:
1. To protect the rights of our residents- I Lead the Fight against “Prop S” realizing that a huge tax increase was already coming and that our residents could not handle any further increases in their house payments. 2. Build the city revenue, thru creating an environment in which businesses and residents can live and operate with limited interference. 3. Re-build the reputation of the city as a great place to live, thru community involvement Hello again, I have been an Alderman for the City of St Ann for the last 5.5 years. Today I come before you because I am running for the St Louis County Council District 2 seat.
The job of the St Louis County Councilman is no different than the job of an Alderman, just a larger population to serve.
You see the County is merely a Municipality, it is equal in authority to that of the Municipalities under the State of Missouri and its likely one of the reasons when we hear Better Together quote Municipal numbers which keep changing i.e. 91-90-92.
Better Together and a few others seem to not be able to keep any of their numbers straight. Certainly in the case of my City, they get very little right!
Take for example Better Together has stated that in 2013 the City of St Ann collected 37.47% of its revenue in Court Fine revenue. The inference is made and repeated by some local politicians that it all came from petty “minor” traffic violations and somehow violated state law. The Missouri State Auditor disagrees with Better Together’s calculations and concluded that 27.8% was the number and was below the amount authorized by state law. The state auditors also gave the St. Ann Court a GOOD ranking on our accounting/court practices which is the second highest ranking given. Additionally, conveniently left out of Better Together’s “narrative” was the context in which the tickets that resulted in this revenue were written. In 2013 the City was in middle of a partnership with the Missouri Department of Transportation to lower the number of accidents on I-70 that were a result of speeding. This effort started in 2010 and by 2013 serious accidents on St. Ann’s portion of I-70 went from 143 in 2009 to 11 by the end of 2013. Revenue generated by these tickets was used to pay for the overtime for police officers - enforcement efforts. It was and still is used for paying for School Resource/DARE Officers in Ritenour and Pattonville schools… including 2 at Ritenour High.
Better Together fails to note that in Oct. of 2011 our Board of Alderman took steps to reduce its own government by voting to eliminate an entire Ward, reducing St Ann’s Alderman from 10 to 8 and using the extra dollars to reestablish the St Ann Newsletter, so we could better communicate with our residents. And prior to that in April of 2010 the Board of Alderman voted to reduce its income from $475 to $375 per month. Presumably, according to Better Together, I make $9000.00/year. Sure wish someone would find that extra $4500.00 for me, it would have come in handy on this campaign. Better Together’s claim that creation of a uni gov brought growth to Indianapolis is very questionable. Just this past July we learned that Indiana did not see business growth till 2013 when they elected a new Governor, who cut taxes. So Better Together’s inability to put out correct information reflects irresponsibility on their part and the part of their sponsors.
District 2’s current County Councilman voted yes on Stenger’s Police Bill without investigating the facts of the Municipal Departments. My residents and my personal experience with our current County Councilman which was non-responsive at best, makes it clear at least to us, that it is extremely important to the welfare of St Louis County that those in charge of the Council today are not the ones in charge next January.
I
wish to serve the people as their St Louis County Councilman because I believe
that those who govern over us, should be listening to us. This is not
what I
Just in the last year we have witnessed the County Council pass through the Unconstitutional Police Bill, the Unconstitutional Landlords Bill, and then we have the Senior Tax Bill which though the people do get to vote on this one, it passed without any detailed information on how the tax would be used. Then of course there was the whole debate on the Metro South Extension…I don’t recall being asked for my opinion on it before it hit the news in June. Do You?
Personally I feel there are a number of important ways to invest that amount of money in the County but certainly as a taxpayer would not vote for an extension on the Metro Link until the City and County allow them to have their own Police Force, like UMSL’s so rider safety is properly maintained. For that matter the Council should consider restructuring the next budget and re-prioritizing it, they certainly have some staffing issues that have been coming before the council every month that I have been attending since February.
I for one certainly expect my government to abide by the State Laws and definitely the Constitution, to follow the same laws that Businesses are required to follow and most certainly I expect accountability for the money both incoming and outgoing. I personally emailed the Seniors Count people and the email I received back - stated that they could not find out how the money for this tax would be used.
This November election cycle is critical to St Louis County, and our State, decisions are being made behind closed doors and with a majority vote, predefined Bills are being passed that mandate to the people, some have been deemed UNCONSTITUTIONAL. These legislators have the votes, and are not listening to their constituents. I have several residents who never received a response from our councilman on Stenger's Police Bill. And for me to get a response I had to let him know that I would let 13,000 constituents know that he was not responding to their Alderman through a direct mail newsletter the city puts out.
County Councilmen Mark Harder, Hazel Erby and Colleen Wassinger called for an investigation into the April Voting Debacle and a week before it was set to be heard, the Council announced they would NOT be hearing public comments. Not a peep from Dist. 2 on this.
On 8/16, I was informed our County Councilman lead the Council meeting, the Council had 28 speakers and he decided that versus the 3 minutes usually allowed, that he would reduce this amount of time to 1 minute per person. It must have been difficult to take a 3 minute speech down to 1 minute effectively.
Is this the St Louis County Council that you want in place? Mandating, not listening, seemingly not caring what we think? For that matter if this Better Together group should succeed at passing their agendas through, do we really want the people in charge to be those that do not feel they have to answer to the people.
My record stands strong with the citizens of St Ann, ask any of them… I Vote the WILL OF THE PEOPLE, even if I disagree with it.
I not only listen to the people, I ask their opinions publicly on Facebook, through emails, placing information in our local newspaper the Localite…pushing the information out to the public because we all know how busy our lives get while raising our families and working.
Sometimes we are not thinking about politics and need our politicians to push information out to us, I for one did and it wasn’t happening - so while I was not concentrating on the very reasons I moved to St Ann, my mall fell apart and the city around it went into a steady decline. A friend asked me to run for Alderman, my first reaction was “who me?” then, I took a look around my city and realized my mistakes.
I had been active in the schools, Treasurer of the PTO’s for 13 years, active in Church, Club and High School Volleyball which my girls loved but just expected I guess my government around me to do the right things…
Five and a half years later should you choose to visit St Ann you will see a world of difference Economically, Socially and see a Community that works together has been revived.
Have you seen what my City Staff and Board of Alderman has done with the MALL that use to be Northwest Plaza??? The media does not and will not tell you how successful we have been because it does not fit the current agenda… With the help of a great developer Mr. Glarner, our old mall is now on track with a Menards, Rulers, Regions Bank, Raising Cane, Gen 3 Quik Trip, Starbucks, Sprint, Here Today, Bobs Discount Furniture, Charter Spectrum, Charters Training Center as well, The Election Board, Work Force Development Admin and an Assessors Satellite Office, 3-4 Call Centers & our newest accomplishment________________ and called “The Crossings at Northwest”. And yes we have other things going in around town as well…Eagle Bank, Aldi’s, Bus Loop Burgers, and St Louis Black Belt Academy to name a few.
Are we done, NO but we are on the right track.
This is what St. Louis County NEEDS as well.
Though I am not saying that every municipality will survive, I am saying its survival should be decided by its residents and not someone who projects they know better for us.
Jobs are the answer, people need to feel independent to have hope, a reason to go to school, Jobs in North County have been neglected for 3 decades.
Running our County should be about “WORKING FOR THE PEOPLE, to make St. Louis County a strong and business friendly environment, thus providing JOBS for the people of St Louis County -North, South, East and West while assisting in keeping our County Schools Strong, our citizens Safe, our infrastructure strong, and providing necessary services to the People.”
Mexican Spanish by Speak & Translate Hola
otra vez, he sido regidor de la ciudad de Santa Ana para los últimos 5 5
años hoy vengo ante ti porque estoy corriendo para el asiento del Consejo de
Condado de St. Louis Distrito 2 el trabajo de la St Louis County Councilman no
es diferente que el trabajo de un regidor, a una población más grande para
servirle a usted ver el condado es simplemente un municipio , es igual en
autoridad a la que de los municipios en el estado de Missouri y su probable uno
de los motivos cuando escuchamos juntos mejor citar números municipales que me
cambian e 91-90-92 mejor juntos y algunos otros parecen no ser capaces de
mantener cualquiera de su recta. Ciertamente en el caso de mi ciudad, consiguen
muy poco derecho! Tome por ejemplo mejor junto ha señalado que en 2013 la ciudad
de Santa Ana recogió 37 47% de sus ingresos en Court Fine ingresos la inferencia
está hecha y repetida por algunos políticos locales que todo vino de
infracciones de tránsito "menor" mezquinos y de alguna manera la ley estatal
viola el Auditor del estado de Missouri está en desacuerdo con el cálculos de
mejor conjunto y concluyó que 27% 8 era el número y estaba por debajo del monto
autorizado por la ley de estado los auditores del estado también dieron Santa
Ana de la corte un buen ranking en nuestras prácticas de contabilidad/corte que
es el segundo más alto rango dado. Además, convenientemente dejado fuera
"Narrativa" de mejor juntos fue el contexto en el que las entradas que dio lugar
a estos ingresos fueron escritas en 2013 la ciudad, en medio de una alianza con
el Departamento de Missouri del transporte para reducir el número de accidentes
en I-70 que fueron el resultado de este esfuerzo de aceleración, empezó en 2010
y 2013 accidentes graves en la parte de Santa Ana de I-70 pasaron de 143 en 2009
y 11 a finales de 2013 Ingresos generados por estos boletos se utilizaron para
pagar el tiempo extra de policías - esfuerzos fue y todavía se utiliza para
pagar la escuela recursos oficiales DARE en escuelas Ritenour y Pattonville...
incluyendo 2 Ritenour alto. Mejor juntos no se tenga en cuenta que en octubre de
2011 nuestra Junta de regidor tomó medidas para reducir su propio gobierno al
votar para eliminar a toda una sala, reduciendo el regidor de Santa Ana de 10 a
8 y utilizando los dólares extras para restablecer el St Ann Newsletter, así que
nos podríamos comunicarnos mejor con nuestros residentes y antes de en abril de
2010 la Junta concejal votó para reducir sus ingresos de $475 a $375 por mes
probablemente , según mejor juntos, hago $9000 00/año que desea alguien
encontraría ese extra $4500 00 para mí, él habría venido práctico en afirmación
de esta campaña mejor juntos de que la creación de un uni gov traído crecimiento
a Indianapolis es muy cuestionable. Justo este pasado mes de julio nos enteramos
de que Indiana no vio crecimiento hasta 2013 cuando eligieron a un nuevo
gobernador, que incapacidad de impuestos mejor juntos para poner hacia fuera
correcta información refleja la irresponsabilidad de su parte y la parte de sus
patrocinadores Distrito 2 actual Condado concejal votó sí en el proyecto de ley
de policía de Stenger sin investigar los hechos de los residentes municipales
departamentos de mi y de mi experiencia personal con nuestro actual concejal del
condado que no responde en el mejor , deja claro al menos para nosotros, que es
extremadamente importante para el bienestar del Condado de St. Louis, que los
responsables del Consejo hoy no son los que en el cargo el próximo enero. Deseo
servir a las personas como su St Louis County Councilman porque creo que quien
gobierna sobre nosotros, debería estar escuchando a nosotros esto es lo que yo
ni muchos de mis vecinos han experimentado desde nuestra actual Condado concejal
como una cuestión de hecho, yo he estado asistiendo a reuniones desde octubre y
una vez que el Consejo realmente dicho residente que el hablar en público parte
de su reunión era no contestar preguntas, pero sólo para permitir que el público
hablar. Sólo en el último año hemos sido testigos de la pasada Diputación a
través de la inconstitucional ley de policía, la ley inconstitucional de los
propietarios, y luego tenemos la factura de impuestos Senior que aunque la gente
llegar a votar en este caso, pasó sin ninguna información detallada sobre cómo
se utilizará el impuesto entonces por supuesto todo el debate sobre la extensión
de Metro sur... No recuerdo que piden mi opinión sobre él antes de lleguen las
noticias en junio. ¿Es usted? Personalmente creo que hay un número de maneras
importantes para invertir esa cantidad de dinero en el Condado pero ciertamente
como un contribuyente no votaría por una extensión en el enlace de Metro hasta
la ciudad y condado que puedan tener su propia policía, como de UMSL tan
seguridad jinete se correctamente mantiene de hecho que el Consejo debería
considerar la reestructuración el próximo presupuesto y volver a priorizarlo ,
que sin duda tienen algunos problemas de dotación
Dear Residents of St. Louis County District 2, Every time we are asked to go out to the polls to Vote we are given promise after promise. Then we are typically disappointed. Today I come to you like others before me, asking for your Vote. My promises are simple:
A VOTE FOR AMY IS A VOTE TO PREVENT “BETTER TOGETHER”, if you prefer “Better Together” vote for my opponent, he will vote that through for you.
Sincerely, WHY AMY? ELECT
AMY POELKER - DIST 2 STL COUNTY COUNCIL SEAT
Hi,
I would like to
introduce myself, I am Amy Poelker. I have lived in Saint Ann for (as of
April)- 18 years now. We have seen Mayors and Alder people (pc) come and go. Over the past 18 years,
our
fair city has been subject to a steady decline. Versus coming up with
innovative and creative ways of bringing in new businesses into our great city,
we have chosen the path of increased rule making, creating an environment in
the city that pushes small and big business alike away from our town.
The last thing
I want to do, is try to fool you. I have never wanted to run for public office.
I do not try to pretend that I have the experience and knowledge in my
background of just what it takes to make a city great. I do have management
experience on the restaurant level for 23 years. So I understand what it takes
to write and meet a budget and that if the money is not there, you should not
spend it. I also understand that when you make your representatives available
to new ideas, there are indeed residents in our community who can help come up
with ways, to make our city great again. Have no doubt however; it will take involvement
from all of us, to do this.
So you have
to ask yourself, why someone like myself would then bother to send out a letter
to you today? Well, I just could not stop myself…when I received a letter
in the mail myself that had promised me that everything that had been done in
the city to this point was done to protect the voters, and that we were
represented by a progressive government to look out after us and make things
happen for us. Well I just had to ask myself, what in the last 5 years has been
done, for the voters. Do they know what the word Progressive describes
them as? America’s
Progressives aimed for a thorough
transformation in America’s principles of government. While our founders
understood that our national government must have the capacity to be strong and
vigorous (this is why the Articles of Confederation were failing), they also
were very clear that this strength must always be confined to very limited ends
or areas of responsibility; government, in other words, while not weak or tiny,
was to be strictly limited. The Progressive conception of government,
on the other hand, was quite the opposite; Progressives had an “evolving” or a
“living” notion of government (yes, we get the term “living constitution” from
the Progressives), and thus wanted government to take on whatever role and
scope the times demanded. The Progressives reasoned that people of the
founding era may have wanted a limited government, given their particular
experience with George III, but they argued that people of their own time
wanted a much more activist government, and that we should adjust
accordingly. Quite simply, the Progressives detested
the bedrock principles of American government. They detested the
Declaration of Independence, which enshrines the protection of individual
natural rights (like property) as the unchangeable purpose of government; and
they detested the Constitution, which places permanent limits on the scope of
government and is structured in a way that makes the extension of national
power beyond its original purpose very difficult. “Progressivism”
was, for them, all about progressing, or moving beyond, the principles of our
founders. If you are asking the question,
why is this the first I have heard of Amy Poelker? Then I will tell you that it
is because I have led a quite life in our city. I do not want to be, beholding
to anyone, for being elected to office here in St. Ann, except you the voters.
Most of our representatives go to the businesses and residents with influence
and power, in our town and ask for donations, to pay for their campaigns. I did
not want to go that route, because then our elected officials are bound by an
unwritten code of ethics to consider the needs of those that contributed to
their campaigns 1st above us the residents.
I have been
involved over the past 11-12 years in our schools PTO’s, Buder Elementary and
Hoech Middle School, as treasurer. I have been a volunteer coach with the CYC
for the last 7-8 years and upon request, took the initiative to begin and put
in place a Select Volleyball Club, designed to be affordable for the residents
in our area, for the last 3 years and began and organized the RHS Volleyball
Booster Club. I have 2 daughters 16,13 and a very supportive husband of 17
years now. When I was younger, I lived in St. Ann with my best friend and her
husband. He is still a St. Ann Police Officer. I was a concession cashier of
the old Airway Twin Drive-In, now our Shop-N-Save. Many of our police officers
were security of the drive-in way back then and worked hard, to earn the
positions they have now.
If you are
looking for something different, in our city government, then feel free to write-in
my name on the ballot box. There will be no box to check with my name next
to it. As I said above, it was not my original intention to run. Remember also
what I said, our city
government will need you to help make us great again, whether you choose
me or not. How you ask?
Word of mouth,
the greatest sales technique of all, tell everyone you meet how much you like
living in Saint Ann, how good the school districts, police forces, fire rescue
and businesses really are. Let us bring “Community Pride” like “School Pride”
back into the picture, attend our meetings-bring your ideas and methods of how
they can be inserted into our community. If we cannot afford to run the pool
and community centers, maybe we should rent them out as other communities do,
to more than just our residents. Versus canceling the Easter Egg hunt maybe, we
should see if the parents in the community would donate candy as an entry fee,
that is what our Pto’s did to hold fall parties at the schools. Possibly the
businesses that donate all the cool prizes, could donate the Easter eggs
instead. Nobody said it had to be the best Easter Egg hunt in the country, just
a place where the residents could get together and meet at something fun to do.
Why not bring family and friends as long as they contribute candy and eggs? Why
cancel all the other fun things, St. Ann does for the kids? Instead, make them
volunteer oriented. Many of the local churches hold these fundraising events,
if all we have to do is offer a park or community center and hold the dates,
then these still can be valid events in our community. If a charge is
necessary, to hold a spot then let’s keep em reasonable, this way we can still
have these get together’s and with community involvement they can be even
bigger and more profitable. St. Ann then stays a fun community to reside in, do
business in, and visit.
Obviously, many
things need to be done to take our city forward, but we need people in office
who will think
outside the box, to accomplish this. Look very carefully at what
has taken place so far in our community, decide for yourself if the people in
office now, keep you happy or need to change because they are not. A lot of
people move to other cities, to fix their concerns, in reality and to save the
huge house payments, all you really need to do is get involved and take a stand
on the day you get to vote and tell the people in office now whether you are
happy with them, or not.
If not
vote them out. Thank you for your time in reading this, Amy Poelker (314)-517-2378
I wanted to share this information with you, to assist you in finding information on what you or maybe your kid could do beyond
school to achieve a NICE PAYING job.
LABORER' INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA ST ANN PUBLIC RECORDS REQUEST FORM Zoo Member, NRA, KCU, St Ann Alderman in 6th Term - Unopposed last 6 runs, USAV, AAU V, Operation Graduation,
Pride & Promise, SAPA, SABA, Ran as a Candidate for St Louis County Council 2x -got 41% of vote. RLAC & Ritenour Parent
Advocacy Committees.
Paid for by Amy Poelker.
Resume on Linkedin - Click Here Paid for by Amy Poelker. Paid for by Citizens for Amy Poelker, Treasurer Christopher Poelker. |
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