Civil Service Commission of the City of St. Louis v. Members of the Board of Aldermen of the City of St. Louis

MICHAEL A. WOLFF, Judge.

The St. Louis City Board of Aldermen enacted an ordinance that allows the city’s firefighters to receive cash payments to their individual retirement funds for unused sick pay. The St. Louis Civil Service Commission challenged the ordinance, claiming that the city charter requires that the civil service commission recommend such an ordinance before the board of aldermen may enact it. The board of aldermen enacted the ordinance, over the mayor’s veto, without a favorable recommendation of the civil service commission.

After the civil service commission filed its petition…