I think Mrs. Pagano will be a positive addition to the city council. She has great "Florissant Pride".

I appreciate the pride that Mrs. Pagano has for our city, however from attending the City Council meetings, it is obvious to me Ms. McKay cares deeply about our community and shares the same great "Florissant Pride." I like Ms. McKay's independence and willingness to speak up for the people even on difficult issues. Ms. McKay does her research and brings a whole stack of papers to meetings that are full of background information on whatever topic is up for discussion. I really appreciate that she takes her job of working for the people of Florissant so seriously.

Time for a change. Familiarity breeds contempt.

Every time I have written to you , Florissant comes out and talks to the owners , and every time Florissant comes out , they don't follow through. The owners actually laugh when Florissant comes out because they know that Florissant will not be back. The house next door is owned by my mother. She is 86 years old and is now living with me. We have been trying to sell her house in Florissant . We have been told by the realtors and people who are looking at the house that the house is in great shape. Of course , the house is not selling because people do not want to look at all of the junk next door (225 Derhake) and they are frightened by the critters that are coming from under this junk.
We are not the only neighbors that are complaining. One neighbor went so far as to put up a privacy fence so that they don't have to look at the junk in this yard.

We would love to put up a privacy fence , but the fence would have to go the length of the yard;so , that the new owners wouldn't have to see the junk. The neighbor down the yard from us says he cannot wait until the bushes start growing at 225 Derhake; so , that he won't have to look at all of that junk.
I would appreciate it if your office would finally have Florissant come out and look at the mess in this yard (225 Derhake) and this time follow through with making the owner clean up this mess. I know that you are running for office this April. I know that the neighbors would gladly vote for you if you could finally get this yard and mess cleaned up. This yard is bringing down the value of the entire neighborhood. Please , can you finally do something.

The above is for Ms McKay.

So far, it doesn't look like they are going to do very much. It seems like a joke and a bother to them. They call some of Gloria's mess "iffy problems" That doesn't look good.

I will follow up in a few weeks to see if any clean up is done. They did not find mice or rats...on the property.
Karen McKay
Councilwoman Ward 7
314-838-2313

Thats not the only reason they were called out

I beg to differ J Carney, considering Ms. Pagano has walked all the streets in Ward 7 where I've resided for 6 years. Pretty sure I have NEVER seen Ms. McKay walking around or even speaking to residents face to face. I myself called for an issue a few years back and told myself i'd never call her again after the unswift response, and uncomfortable phone conversation. I've heard many others in my Ward say the same thing about her not being too friendly to the residents, almost feeling belittled. All people really want is to be listened to, and have someone interested in their feelings/issues/reasonings/complaints/concerns without the "my way or highway attitude" This is something Ms Pagano does not have problems with and doesn't just take pride in the city but just as much pride in to it's residents as well. I hope things start to change for the better and us the residents of Ward 7 can finally be heard without being afraid to talk.

Stacey you are right on. I never had spoken to McKay till the election. I have lived in florissant all of my 54 years. i am so glad Jackie is our Council Women. Seeing her going door to door reminded me of the old days when you knew who was running and what they stood for.