The inauguration ceremonies of Mayor Tishaura O. Jones and Comptroller Darlene Green today in the rotunda of St. Louis City Hall. Mayor Jones makes history as the first African American woman elected mayor of the City of St. Louis.
As Deputy Communications Director for the Office of the Mayor, I documented many events, meetings, and all the big and small moments in the daily life of the Mayor of the City of St. Louis.
Pictures featured on this page were posted on official social media channels of the City of St. Louis or Mayor Lyda Krewson.
Mayor Krewson receives help from a young YMCA member at the Bayer YMCA groundbreaking in the Academy neighborhood in December 2019.
Mayor Krewson and Public Safety Director Jimmie Edwards stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter marchers in June 2020 in front of City Hall.
Mayor Krewson celebrates Rasheen Aldridge Jr.'s election win to the Missouri House of Representatives as State Representative for the 78th Congressional District of Missouri at Yaquis on Cherokee Street.
Mayor Krewson receives her annual flu shot - and encourages the public to do the same - at a public health event in October 2020. Affinia Health also provided free drive through COVID-19 tests at Kingshighway and Union.
Clean Sweep is an event that brings together residents and volunteers from across the city to clean up trash and cut down weeds, clear vacant buildings, and beautify focused areas of a neighborhood. Eight dangerous vacant buildings were demolished and volunteers with the Urban League of St. Louis cleaned a one entire mile of MLK Drive in the Wells-Goodfellow neighborhood at the Clean Sweep in June 2020. Clean Sweep events are part of the Mayor's citywide vacancy initiative and the STL Vacancy Collaborative.
In summer 2020, the City of St. Louis helped local businesses reopen after COVID-19 stay at home orders were lifted by providing and distributing PPE with community partners. Mayor Krewson visited the various distribution sites to thank volunteers and staff from community organizations.
Mayor Krewson shows reporters a model tiny house in November 2020. A village of tiny houses received its first residents in December 2020. The village was created to provide new socially distanced shelters for homeless residents during the pandemic.
Mayor Krewson and Police Chief John Hayden meet with the Shaw Neighborhood Ownership Model (NOM) group in November 2019. The new group focuses on citizen organizing to reduce crime in the neighborhood.
Mayor Krewson meets with business and community leaders and speaks at a seminar hosted by the Regional Chamber and Growth Association about the new federal Opportunity Zone program and its impact on development in the City of St. Louis and region.
The Board of Estimate and Apportionment (E&A) meets in the Mayor's Office board room in November 2019. The Board of E&A consists of the Mayor, Comptroller, and President of the Board of Aldermen. The mayor leads E&A meetings, which approve all city real estate purchases, appropriations, and the city's annual operating budget, making it the most consequential board in City of St. Louis government.
Long before COVID-19 was a vocabulary word, the Mayor and her staff received their annual flu shot in the Mayor's office in October 2019 and encouraged all St. Louisans to do the same for the health of everyone.
Service pins are awarded by the Mayor to employees with 30 years of service with the City of St. Louis in the Water Division, Excise Division, and St. Louis Lambert International Airport in November 2019.
Mayor Krewson tours one of Metro Transit's first battery electric buses with Bi-State Development President and CEO Taulby Roach in October 2020. A fleet of 14 buses will start operating in 2021 and save Metro Transit more than $100,000 in diesel fuel annually.
Neighborhood meeting in Ward 2 with the Mayor and department directors in November 2019. Before COVID-19, regular neighborhood meetings allowed residents to speak directly to the Mayor, alders, and city staff to request services or address city issues.
Topping out ceremony with fireworks and a flying Christmas tree for One Cardinal Way at Ballpark Village in November 2019.
Groundbreaking for the $1.75 billion new National Geospatial Agency West headquarters in the St. Louis Place neighborhood. The new facility is the largest development project in recent St. Louis history and is located in a neighborhood that has suffered decades of disinvestment and depopulation.
Mayor Krewson signed a proclamation commemorating 100 years of Women's Suffrage with members of the League of Women Voters in her office in August 2020.
Mayor Krewson meets with a Habit for Humanity home recipient and leadership in the Benton Park neighborhood in November 2019.
A friendly visit between public servants from Aurora, Ontario - hometown of Blues center Robert Thomas - in the Mayor's office. Mayor Tom Mrakas and Councillor Michael Thompson were in town to see a Blues hockey game in December 2019.