ShareBy Jo Schaper
Although major cuts to the St. Louis County Park system were averted in December, the swing of the budget ax still has some sting.
On January 25, County Executive Charlie Dooley announced that 20 full-time and four part-time parks employees were being laid off. According to a reliable source, three recently hired law [...]

ShareThe numbers are in.
We ran a 15 day poll on our website, promoting it through Facebook and Twitter, to see what options people might consider to fund the budget shortfall which is impacting St. Louis County parks operation. When the poll started, the parks were in imminent threat of closing January 1.
By the [...]

ShareNew Links Page: Funding St. Louis County Parks
Archived: St. Louis County Links Page updated to Nov. 22
By Jo Schaper
The people have spoken. The St. Louis County Council is well aware they are tasked with finding funding to keep St. Louis County Parks open and park staff in place. The question now is: how? [...]

ShareBy Jo Schaper
If St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley or the County Council had any doubts that residents were unhappy with plans to shutter 23 of 63 parks next year, those doubts were laid to rest when some 500 folks showed up at a protest rally and budget hearing in Clayton last night to demand [...]