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Spencer signs pay boost for city workers and new direction for St. Louis transportation 36%
By Jason Rosenbaum0%
6/11/2026, 8:05:49 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 18 faulty reasoning types, including False Dilemma, In-Group Bias, and Framing Effect, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 19.6% saturation with 93 hits. Analysis detected 677 faulty-reasoning hits from 475 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 43.4% and a BS Rank of 36% (13,119 of 20,371 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 64.40% of the article peer group.
St.
Louis city workers are in line for a pay increase.
Spencer signed legislation on Thursday that provides at least a 3% raise for most city workers.
Spencer noted the legislation boosts salaries for the city’s most underpaid employees by boosting the minimum salaries for some positions to be within 5% of the regional market.
Spencer said the city has struggled for years to compete with other municipalities.
She said 14th Ward Alderman Rasheen Aldridge’s legislation showcases appreciation to the city’s workforce.
“This is about recognizing the people who keep St.
Louis city running on a daily basis, from the crews repairing our streets to the people who secure our jails,” Spencer said.
“These are some of the folks that have been in long need of getting up to a regional minimum to make our salaries competitive.”
Spencer has also signed off on a one-time, $1,000 payout for most city employees.
“We know they're underpaid, and they continue to come to work every single day, putting in overtime hours and making sure our city is safe,” Aldridge said.
Transportation executive order
Spencer also signed a multifaceted executive order reorienting the city’s transportation priorities.
Among other moves, the executive order seeks to build out a digital map of the city’s sidewalks – and also identify and fund improvements to the 10 highest crash risk streets maintained by the city by 2028.
Spencer’s executive order also aims to steer transportation decisions toward departments.
Alderman Michael Browning said it’s preferable to let the city identify transportation needs rather than have it done on a ward-by-ward basis.
“The steps we're taking will start to center decisions with the experts instead of just who happens to be elected,” Browning said.
“Look, your alders care about their people, they do what they can.
But you don't need to elect a traffic engineer to make sure that the people in your city are safe.
You need to have those people in professional roles in the departments making those decisions on a comprehensive citywide basis.”
The executive order also seeks to phase out the city’s 50/50 sidewalk program, where a property owner splits the cost of sidewalk maintenance with the city.
Fifth Ward Alderman Matt Devoti described the program as broken, pointing out there’s more than 600 requests in his ward.
“And that's in a ward where folks have the means to invest in sidewalks,” Devoti said.
“Of course, outside of the ward, there are other residents in other places where that ability doesn't exist.”
He said the goal is to address sidewalk repair from a citywide perspective, adding that when policymakers are “addressing them on an equitable basis, and at the end of the day, we're making our city more safe, better and improved for every single resident.”
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