A lack of consensus about budget flexibility for the St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners resulted in the removal of a provision that would have allowed overtime pay for St. Louis police lieutenants.
Current law requires the Board of Police Commissioners to get the approval from the municipality before transferring funds within its budget. With days left in the legislative session, lawmakers failed to reach an agreement and removed all portions of Christ’s amendment — including overtime pay for lieutenants.
“They took all of it out, and I couldn’t understand that,” May said. “I was like, why do we do that? I said we should have left the lieutenants’ pay in there.”