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Wildwood’s City Council, on Dec. 8, gave final approval by a vote of 12 to 1 to legislation accepting the city’s proposed fiscal year 2015 municipal budget.

Rockwood School District Superintendent Eric Knost wrote to secondary school parents during the first week in December, saying he wanted to clarify his position and that of the district “regarding any demonstrations that have occurred on our school campuses.”

The Rockwood School District is seeking ways to fund more capital improvement needs as the Board of Education considers the first draft of its proposed fiscal year 2016 budget, set to begin July 1, 2015.

In 2009, and earlier this year, arborists went around looking at trees on public lands in the city of Creve Coeur. One by one, they counted until they were done.

The official public hearing on the city of Ballwin’s 2015 budget and the approval of ordinances formalizing the document came in rapid-fire sequence at the Board of Aldermen’s Dec. 8 meeting.

Wildwood’s City Council gave final approval Dec. 8 to a lease agreement with St. Louis County for the 99-acre Belleview Farms tract in the Meramec River greenway to be used as a park. The lease has a 25-year term, with possible renewal for another 25 years.

The city of Ballwin has recognized three officials whose combined years of service have hit the century mark.

The Ballwin Board of Aldermen on Dec. 8 bid farewell to two of its members and recognized the county councilmember whose place one of the departing aldermen soon will take.

According to a press statement released by the Ellisville Police Department, a decomposed body was found hanging from a tree in a wooded area in Bluebird Park on Sunday, Dec. 14, at about 3:20 p.m.

The city of Chesterfield filed suit Dec. 12 in Cole County, against the State of Missouri, challenging the constitutionality of State Statutes that control the distribution of local sales taxes in St. Louis County.