Florissant City Inspectors Looking for Tall Grass

If you haven't mowed your law recently, the City of Florissant is reminding residents to do it now.

With lots of rain and warm weather comes a problem, tall grass. The City of Florissant Public Works office as well as Mayor Tom Schneider’s office is reminding residents to mow their lawns. “We do understand with the wet weather it has been extremely difficult to find time to mow the yard,” the press release stated. “Our own Parks and Health departments have struggled to cut the various parks and properties we are responsible for. So we understand it takes a little more planning and scheduling to get the mowing done” However, several residents have called the public works office with concerns for their neighbor’s high grass, and city inspectors have been out in full force to notify residents of their tall grass. Grass that measures more …

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Florissant Council Adds $62K to Reserve Fund

The funds come as the council closes its Home Equity Assurance Program account.

The City’s reserve fund just got more than $62,000 richer Monday night. The Florissant City Council approved a bill that would approve the transfer of remaining Home Equity Assurance Program funding to the city’s reserve fund. In past years, the reserve fund had been a point of concern for former councilors and residents. It’s projected the reserve would stand at more than $7.8 million at the end of the fiscal year, according to the 2013 budget. The $62,770 transferred results from remaining account funds from the HEAP program, which started in 2009. The program served as a safeguard against possible economic loss in single-family homes in regards to the Florissant housing market. It didn’t protect against regional or national home …

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Florissant City Council Mulls Trash Service Contract Extension

The council will look at giving Meridian Waste a five-year contract.

Florissant City Council will decide whether to extend its trash service contract Meridian Waste during Monday night’s meeting. Meridian Waste has provided service to the City of Florissant for the past five years and has proposed a five-year contract extension that would increase customers’ bill in 2017. Many Patch readers seem to support the contract extension, while others don’t share the same sentiment. “I am also very happy with Meridian Waste,” Gene Thoebes wrote. “The multiple companies we had before was terrible. Every waste company had a different pickup day and adding yard waste resulted in more trucks up and down the street. If you have an issue with Meridian I found it was solved faster by email than trying to use the phone.” …

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Letter Carriers in Florissant Collect Food Saturday to Stamp Out Hunger

Place cans of unopened, non-perishable items next to your mailbox before the letter carrier delivers the mail Saturday. They will collect the food donations as they deliver mail along their routes. Locally, donations go to the St. Louis Area Foodbank.

Florissant residents will have the opportunity Saturday, May 11, to donate food to people in need as part of the Stamp Out Hunger National Food Drive. The event is sponsored by the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC). Letter carriers will collect donations of unopened, nonperishable food items left next to mailboxes. Goods can include food items like peanut butter, soups and canned tuna. The St. Louis Area Foodbank received almost 220,000 pounds of food as part of the event. Overall, letter carriers in the bi-state region collected more than 724,647 pounds of food in one day. That equates to more than 591,500 meals. In 2010 it received more than 300,000 pounds of food. The food bank has a network of nearly 500 food pantries in …

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Rep. Keith English, Local Residents Testify at Senate Hearing on West Lake Landfill

West Lake Landfill is an Environmental Protection Agency Superfund site. Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal is seeking to have it transferred to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. A hearing was held Wednesday morning to discuss the matter.

Local residents headed to Jefferson City, Wednesday, to testify before a Senate committee on West Lake Landfill. The hearing is about a resolution Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal's urgeing the U.S. Congress to transfer authority for the remediation of the West Lake Landfill radioactive wastes from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' (USACE) Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP). View the bill introduction here. On the West Lake Landfill Facebook group, residents that testified, along with supporters that traveled to Jefferson City, expressed excitement about it. "Got back from Jefferson City less than an hour ago (from) the hearing for West Lake Landfill and it went very well," …

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What's on the Agenda?

Supplier Diversity, Tornado Response Topics set for Hazelwood School District's Board Meeting

Will you be at Tuesday's meeting? The board will also discuss

The Hazelwood School District (HSD) Board of Education will convene Tuesday at 6:30 p.m., to discuss district business. The board will hear a quarterly update report regarding the district's supplier diversity program. The last update, given in early February, included stats through Dec. 31, 2012, on minority and women supplier participation as it pertains to bid contracts awarded within the district. See: Hazelwood Schools Minority Suppliers On Target, Struggling to Find Women. At it's last meeting, newly re-elected Board of Education members were sworn in. Council also approved contracts to purchase three new vans and approved bids proposals for contractors to perform building code upgrades at multiple HSD schools. These code upgrades …

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Florissant Hosting Home Improvement Funding Seminar

The City will host a seminar on how to possibly receive up to $5,000 for a loan for home improvements.

If you’re planning to spruce up your home this spring, the City of Florissant might have the funding and seminar to help in your quest. The City will be hosting a seminar Thursday on its Home Improvement Program and how to qualify and fill out the application, according to a city press release. The city’s community development block grant office offers up to $5,000 in a no-interest loan to low-to-moderate income Florissant homeowners. The loans are only for the use of repairing the home and addressing code violations. Applications will be accepted, starting May 1 and ending May 31 during business hours of 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Priority will be given to low-income households, according to the release. The seminar will be held Thursday at the …

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Florissant Council Gives OK to Park Police Payment Plan

See what else the council approved and read during last week's City Council meeting.

Last week, the Florissant City Council approved the Walmart development’s proposed amendment to site plans, but a number of other items were also approved and read. Check out what recently became law in Florissant:

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