City Politics

Former Personnel Director Sonya Jenkins-Gray sues St. Louis for violating the city’s antidiscrimination provision.

St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones has fired Personnel Director Sonya Jenkins-Gray. The decision comes months after Civil Service Commission hearings began and marks the first time a personnel director has been fired in the city’s history.

The fate of St. Louis Personnel Director Sonya Jenkins-Gray is now in the hands of the city’s civil service commission.

A previous St. Louis personnel director testified that he was unaware of anyone being fired for violating the vehicle use policy during his time in the position.

St. Louis officials, including Mayor Tishaura Jones, will not have to testify in a hearing on Personnel Director Sonya Jenkins-Gray’s future with the city.

A Civil Service Commission hearing on whether St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones can have personnel director Sonya Jenkins-Gray removed is continuing.

A hearing to decide if the city should fire personnel director Sonya Jenkins-Gray is scheduled to resume Jan. 28.

The St. Louis Civil Service Commission hearing on firing Personnel Director Sonya Jenkins-Gray is scheduled to enter a third day on Thursday.

On the latest edition of the Politically Speaking podcast, Megan Green, 15th Ward St. Louis alderwoman, talks about being asked by the mayor to run for board president, setting a new tone at the board and getting it ready to be a body of 14, rather than 28.

Glendale City Administrator Benjamin DeClue says St. Louis and St. Louis County should adopt a council-manager form of government to avoid corruption.