The motion passed unanimously on a voice vote. A MOTION TO APPROVE THE FISCAL YEAR 2018 COMPREHENSIVE ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT

City Manager Owens reported that Ted Williamson, RubinBrown LLC, presented tonight to the Board of Aldermen a summary audit information on the September 30, 2018 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR).

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Motion made by Alderman Winings to accept the FY2018 Comprehensive annual Financial report. Alderman Boulton seconded.

The motion passed unanimously on a voice vote.

A MOTION TO ACCEPT THE CERTIFICATION OF APRIL 2, 2019, MUNICIPAL ELECTION RESULTS

City Manager Owens reported that on April 2, 2019, a municipal election was held for the office of Mayor. The results of the municipal election as certified by the Board of Election Commissioners of St. Louis County are as follows:

Michelle Harris

YES

2,306 votes (95.53) Invalid Write-In

108 votes ( 4.47)

Recommendation is to adopt a motion to accept the canvassed and certified results of the April 2, 2019 municipal election.

Motion made by Alderman Winings to accept the certification of the April 2, 2019 Municipal Election results. Alderman Boulton seconded.

The motion passed unanimously on a voice vote.

Other

Mayor Sanger: I came across some notes that I had written when I first took this seat six years ago, I think it’s the last time I had actually wrote a speech. But I can across it and the very last paragraph I would just like to repeat for you all. This is after I talk about what a special place Clayton is…. So, I am excited, enthused, fired up, eager, gung-ho, and ready to move our city into its 2nd century. With that note however, this is the last time you will hear me talk about “me”. It is not about me; it is about what the collective “we” in this room as servant leaders can accomplish on behalf of our citizens. There will be difficult decisions to make, there will be times when not everyone will be happy. New challenges will arise, but to paraphrase Bill Clinton who said: “There is nothing wrong in America that can't be fixed with what is right in America”, I say, there is nothing wrong in Clayton, that can’t be fixed by what is right in Clayton”. In over the past six years, we, this group, and a couple of others that are not up here anymore, have worked together to make Clayton what we are today, and we’ve accomplished, I believe, much. The development speaks for itself, the balanced budgets and the wonderful surplus that we have experienced has been great. Our relationship with our partners, the superintendent of the school is here, many of the school board members are here – we have a very tight link with the School District – all been accomplished very wonderfully. So it’s time for me to thank each one of you and if the audience will indulge me for just a moment unbeknownst to anyone here, I have created a nickname for each one of you, which I have said silently to myself on multiple occasions, so I think it’s time to share that in my effort to say thank you. It’s hard for me to say thank you enough, but we’ll make this an attempt.

Mark Winings, who I consider to be a very deep thinker doesn’t say a lot, when he does say something it’s like we went oh, God, we didn’t even think about that, but many times I can look around the room I can tell by the face or by gesture how people are thinking about certain things. Every once in a while, I would glance over to Mark and there’s nothing. The only thing I can get out of Mark is this thing he does with his pen. Mark will you twirl your pen for everybody. Let me just ell you that I have tried to twirl a pen and there is no way, he is an Olympic pen twirler. But the look that I get from him is noncommittal and he just votes yes or no and will tell us why he did it one way or another. So, Mark, “Poker Face” Winings for everything you have done for this community, for this group, and for your constituents, you

But the look that I get from him is noncommittal and he just votes yes or no and will tell us why he did it one way or another. So, Mark, “Poker Face” Winings for everything you have done for this community, for this group, and for your constituents, you

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have been awesome. The past six years would not have been the same without you – so thank you very much!

Joanne, my sister from another mother, we have thought a lot alike, we have approached things very much in the same way many times; we’ve thought about stuff the same way. But Joanne is our “deep diver.” When there’s a situation that comes up that she doesn’t completely understand, unless it’s sports, she dives into it to understand exactly what it is we are going to vote on and then she shares it with everybody else. There are many times she comes up with stuff and we go good grief we didn’t even know about that and therefore she brings it up. So people who come here and petitions us for something have to be fully prepared because if they come in and they don’t give us all the circumstance of what they are asking for, Ms. Boulton will go after them and they will not forget that they had been here. So, I think you will actually honor this and be happy about Ms. Joanne “Pitbull” Boulton and she has done a terrific job for us and for the community. The only difference however, between Joanne and a Pitbull is that eventually the Pitbull lets go, and Joanne does not, but for that you have been awesome, thank you for everything that you do for our community, it would not have been the same without you. Thank you.

Mr. Lintz, I have a couple of different ones for you, but I have one that I settled on. So Rich is also a deep thinker and his participation here really has been important because he brings up stuff, that again like Mark, brings up stuff that we haven’t thought about or a different perspective. I would just like to say that everyone up here comes at every issue from their own angle. We may vote unanimously for things and we frequently do, but if we do it’s because everyone has thought it through in their own way. So that, Rich has a unique way of coming to a conclusion, or coming to a vote time, but the think that I love about him is that he is always on the look out for something that we can do as a City to make ourselves more unique or iconic. So when he goes away on trips he will send back pictures of things, it could be a bike lane, or it could be parking, building, architecture, etc. So, the most recent picture that he sent was a gigantic hand holding up a pedestrian bridge and I’m thinking where in the world can we put a gigantic hand with a pedestrian bridge, other than maybe somewhere in the first Ward. So Rich “Iconic” Lintz you have been awesome, thankyou for everything you have done for us and for our community. It would not have been the same without you – thank you.

Ira, my brother from another mother, there are three attorneys on the Board, Mark, Bridget, and Ira. Ira brings the courtroom into our room here and there are many times that he interrogates someone who comes up to make a presentation and he will absolutely interrogate them and I think that is actually pretty cool, but he doesn’t do it in a vicious way it’s just in his nature of doing things. Many times, as you have just seen the way that we run the agenda, I say are there any other questions and then I go to Mr. Winings and he presents what the presentation is, so just many times when I’m turned this way and I’m about to say make a presentation, I see some movement from the left corner of my eye, and I see him going, ‘I have one more question.’ I don’t know how many of you are old enough to remember the television show Columbo, Peter Falk, played Columbo. Peter Falk was a detective and there is a crime that was committed and the beginning of the show and we all know who did it and they are trying to hide and Columbo is assigned to find out who the culprit was so he goes to who he thinks is guilty and he asks him a bunch of questions. The guy answers the questions, and Peter Falk says okay, well thank you and goes to leave. The guy is going oh man I got out of this and Columbo gets to the door and he turns around and says I have one more question, and it is the question that solves the case. So, to Ira “Columbo” Berkowitz, you have been awesome, thank you for everything you have done for our City. It would not be the same without you – thank you!

So, Michelle and I have a great history and it can only happen really in Clayton or I’d say in very few places. In 2013 some of you may remember we had a bit of a contentious campaign for mayor and I got the more votes (121). In many, many circumstances it could be that the person who didn’t win and that sits on this council could have a very acrimonious relationship with the mayor and it happens all the time. When you see the news and you see what happens in other city councils, I mean, it’s a disaster. But Michelle said to me what can we do together to help our community move forward and that’s