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The Missouri Society of CPAs (MOCPA) is a professional association for the Certified Public Accountant (CPA) profession in Missouri. The organization was formed on June 18, 1909, by twenty-three CPAs from St. Louis. The Society represents over 8,000 members in the practicing accounting in public practice, industry, government, and education. [1]
St. Louis City Hall was designed by architects Eckel & Mann, the winners of a national competition. [1] Construction began in 1891 and completed in 1898. Its profile and stylistic characteristics evoke the French Renaissance Hôtel de Ville, Paris , with an elaborate interior decorated with marble and gold trim.
Richard ap Meryk (or ap Meurig), anglicised to Richard Amerike (or Ameryk) (c. 1440–1503) was a British merchant, royal customs officer and later, sheriff of Bristol. Several claims have been made for Amerike by popular writers of the late twentieth century.
Charles Keemle compiled and published the first series of directories for St. Louis from 1836 to 1841 known as Keemle's St. Louis Directory They contained residential and business directories, advertising directories, and statistical information related to government officers and services, tariffs, postage rates, insurance carriers, social societies and organizations.
Proposition R (2012) was a charter amendment passed in November 2012 to reduce the number of city of St. Louis alderpersons from 28 to 14. It was slated to take place 10 years in the future (effective January 1, 2022) and was passed by city voters on November 6, 2012, with 61 percent voting in favor (60 percent was needed for passage). [2]
The mayor has an office in the St. Louis City Hall St. Louis was incorporated as a city on December 9, 1822, four months after Missouri was admitted as a state to the Union. In accordance with its new charter, the city changed its governance to a mayor-council format and elected its first mayor, William Carr Lane, on April 7, 1823.
The current University City City Hall building was built by magazine publisher and businessman Edward Gardner Lewis, a native of Connecticut who came to St. Louis, Missouri, in the late 1890s, selling insect extermination products and medicines that were said to be highly questionable. [5]
The office was temporarily held by John Watson after Tom Schweich, who was elected in 2010 and reelected in 2014, died on February 26, 2015. Nicole Galloway was appointed by Governor Jay Nixon to fill the office on a permanent basis until the 2018 election, effective on April 27, 2015, and was subsequently elected to a full term. [8]