Mayor-elect Cara Spencer announces staff hires, transition team

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ST. LOUIS – Two days after unseating incumbent Mayor Tishaura Jones, Mayor-elect Cara Spencer is holding a media occasion exterior St. Louis Metropolis Corridor to debate her plans as she transitions from an alderwoman to the town’s chief govt.

Previous to Thursday’s media occasion, Spencer’s transition staff stated the mayor-elect already made three hires for her administrative workers. Nancy Hawes was named chief of workers, Emily Thenhaus will function deputy chief of workers, and Beverly Isom might be Spencer’s communications director.

Spencer informed reporters her administration will make transparency a precedence. She promised to work to construct belief with communities that may have doubts about her skill to characterize them.

“We’re actually wanting ahead to creating partnerships, new partnerships specifically, to construct bridges and to construct success throughout communities that haven’t essentially seen success prior to now,” she stated.

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The mayor-elect was additionally requested about her marketing campaign promise to take away fencing round metropolis corridor. The fencing went up when homeless encampments fashioned on grassy areas exterior the constructing. Spencer stated she’s engaged on a plan to take away the fencing.

“That’s going to be constructed with partnerships with a number of the people offering providers to the unhoused neighborhood, ensuring that we’re all working in live performance collectively,” Spencer stated.

Spencer stated she’s spent the hours following Tuesday evening’s election assembly with varied neighborhood leaders.

“We met with the chiefs of the hearth division, the police division, have had conversations with the governor, the county govt, and plenty of different regional leaders, ensuring we’re sharing visions,” she stated.

Spencer and her transition staff have additionally met with Mayor Jones and her administration.

“It was beneficiant of her staff to sit down down with us and share some issues and we’re grateful for that chance,” Spencer stated.

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When requested if she wish to see present St. Louis Police Chief Robert Tracy stay on the job, Spencer expressed help for the chief. She stated her administration would even be on the lookout for any authorized avenues to problem the latest transfer by state lawmakers to shift extra management of the division to governor-appointed board.

When requested if she can be making modifications to the management of the St. Louis Improvement Company, an company that’s come beneath hearth for its use of ARPA funding, Spencer stated there are nonetheless technical and authorized points to navigate.

Mayor-elect Spencer might be sworn in on Tuesday, April 15. She’ll turn out to be the forty-eighth individual to function the town’s mayor for the reason that workplace was fashioned in April 1823.

Members of the mayor-elect’s transition committees embody (listed in alphabetical order):

Pastor Andre Alexander – President, Tabernacle Neighborhood Improvement Company
Patrick Brown – Chief of Employees, Workplace of the Chairman, President & CEO, Ameren Company
Anna Crosslin – Retired President & CEO, Worldwide Institute of St. Louis
Haliday Douglas – President & CEO, St. Louis Public Colleges Basis
Audrey Ellermann – President, Covenant Blu Grand Heart Neighborhood Affiliation; President, Brickline North CDC
Invoice Etling – Senior Vice President, Nestlé Purina North America
Bridget Flood – Govt Director, Incarnate Phrase Basis
Dr. Alexander Garza, MD, MPH – Chief Neighborhood Well being Officer, SSM Well being
Leslie Gill – President & CEO, Rung for Ladies
Lesley Hoffarth – President and Govt Director, Forest Park Eternally
Peter Hoffman – Managing Legal professional for Neighborhood Advocacy, Authorized Providers of Japanese Missouri
Dr. Stacy Gee Hollins, Ph.D. – Affiliate Provost of Tutorial Affairs and Dean, Anheuser-Busch College of Enterprise, Harris-Stowe State College
Robert Holmes – Chairman & CEO, Commerce Bancshares St. Louis
Tim Huffman, Ph.D. – Assistant Professor, Saint Louis College
Laura Hughes – Founder & CEO, Fleur De Lis Improvement Company; Board Member, Worldwide Institute of St. Louis
Jon-Pierre (JP) Mitchom – Director of Fairness and Inclusion, Saint Louis Priory College
Julie Murphy – Managing Principal, JFM Methods, LLC
Brian Phillips – Assistant Vice Chancellor, Washington College Medical Heart; Funding Committee, Arch to Park
Jeff Pittman, Ph.D. – Chancellor, Saint Louis Neighborhood Faculty
Don Pohl – President, Ranken Technical Faculty
Gabriela Ramírez-Arellano – VP, Entrepreneurship, Cortex Innovation District
Dr. Will Ross, MD, MPH – Alumni Endowed Professor of Drugs and Principal Officer for Neighborhood Partnerships, Washington College College of Drugs
Steve Smith – Founder & CEO, New + Discovered
Jayvn Solomon – Founding Director and Artistic Strategist, Lotus Labs & Loutopia
Dr. Cheryl Watkins, MBA – President & CEO, YWCA Metro St. Louis
Stephen Westbrooks – Govt Director of Southern Area, IFF
Michael Wolff – Former Decide and Chief Justice, Missouri Supreme Courtroom; Professor and Dean Emeritus, Saint Louis College Regulation College
Paul Woodruff – Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, St. Louis Neighborhood Credit score Union