St. Louis License Collector latest City Hall office to cut costs
McMillan
ST. LOUIS — Earlier this year, the city’s treasurer and parking czar announced he was slashing jobs to cope with the economic downturn.
Now, another citywide elected official, License Collector Mike McMillan, is also taking out the budget ax.
McMillan announced on Monday that his office has cut staff by 15 percent, and ordered remaining employees to take a furlough, just as other City Hall employees have been ordered to take by the mayor.
The office has also “scaled up” its audit procedures and has shed three office vehicles — selling two and returning one to the municipal motor pool.
Even so, McMillan’s office does not appear to be suffering from lack of cash: His office has also contributed $500,000 in additional tax money to the city’s general fund, which should endear McMillan with his former colleagues on the Board of Aldermen who are struggling with declining revenues.
Latest….? You mean last?
Didn’t know the mayor could unilaterally order furloughs for city hall employees. Must have been a city charter change the Post forgot to report on. Typical (mis)information on this blog, though.
I can’t think of anyone I know who would want to “endear” themselves to that pit of corruption and idiocy, the Board of Aldermen. BTW, thanks for showing us how little spine you have in the last mayoral race, Mike!
I’m just glad he is doing such a great job, wherever he is. He makes the city better.
You could lay off the entire License Collector’s Office and no one would ever miss them. Heck, the City would be better off without them.
It’s amazing how negative good news can be received in St. Louis. How can a citywide elected official voluntarily taking a pay cut, his staff taking a pay cut, selling cars, maintaining the same level of service and giving money to help out with the city’s deficit be a bad thing? Stewart has TOTALLY missed the changes in the License Collector’s Office because he probably is unemployed and could never have a business. That office has NEVER been run as well as it is now. I just renewed my consulting license online and when I called with a question it was answered quickly and courteously. That never happened before. When Daly was there the office was dirty, nasty and filthy. The employees looked like a hoosier/ghetto B movie crew gone wrong and had attitudes to match.
In terms of the last Mayor’s race, I think that McMillan did the right thing. As a resident of south city, I can tell you that most people would not have voted for anyone but Slay because that is all that they know and race still plays a major part of everything that happens in this town. The northside would have turned out for McMillan but the southside would have outvoted them and he would have lost. Where would Chippewa have been then? The reality is that most people in this city talk a good game but do nothing. Where were all of the people with the money that would have helped? Where were the white elected officials that have spoken out against Slay for anything that he did wrong over the past 8 years? The answer is no where to be found. The business community and south side elected officials have done nothing but support Slay because he either supports them or they are afraid to go against them. Even black people like Lewis Reed and others that should have been helping get a new mayor would not have done anything because they would have had amnesia as to how they got in office and are snakes anyway waiting for their own chance and don’t give a damn about McMillan or anybody else.