Personnel and Administration Committee - October 22, 2026

The City of St. Louis Personnel and Administration Committee met on October 22, 2026. The committee discussed options for electronic annual performance reviews: estimates from other companies were about $5,000, while using the city’s existing Oracle system was estimated to involve roughly $100,000 in upfront costs. The committee agreed to pause the electronic/360-review process while the city’s Personnel Department explores a citywide system and to continue staff evaluations on paper. No vendor was selected and no contract or purchase was approved; the director noted that spending at or above $5,000 would require the process to go out for bid. The committee also voted to complete the prior-year performance assessment for legal counsel and proceed with the current-year review in line with other staff reviews.

The committee approved moving ahead with a preliminary collective-bargaining meeting, with subsequent matters to return to the committee for review and approval and the full board to be kept informed. It scheduled further review of the draft employee handbook before deciding whether to share it, and adopted a policy that a legislative assistant in a vacated aldermanic ward will report to the clerk until a successor is elected; the successor may decide whether to retain the assistant or begin a hiring process. No board bills or resolutions were presented for review.