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EX ALDERMAN NEWSLETTER 318 AND CHESTERFIELD 263

February 25, 2018

TOWN AND COUNTRY POLICE ACTYIVITY AND CHESTERFIELD ACTIVITY AND

CRIME FOR JANUARY:

Town and Country:

Jan-18

Stats for Chief

CATEGORY JAN. 2018 YTD 2018 JAN. 2017 YTD 2017

Calls for Service 2392 2392 1835 1835

Reports Written 229 229 156 156

Vehicle Crashes 77 77 67 67

Criminal Reports 37 37 24 24

DWI Arrests 15 15 8 8

Misc. Arrests 30 30 18 18

Traffic Citations 293 293 183 183

Speeding 165 165 106 106

Traffic Warnings 278 278 215 215

Total Traffic Contacts 571 571 398 398

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MAYOR, CIGARETTE LOBBYIST AND STEALER OF WIDOW’S BUSINESS AND

PROPERTY FOR A NIGHTCLUB DISTRICT THAT WAS NEVER BUILT,DALTON

HAS JUST ADDED NEW LOBBYING CLIENTS: Yes Town and Country Mayor Jon

Dalton, who for over a decade was a lobbyist for cigarette companies, now has more

new clients that should make residents proud.

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First there is Maverick Consulting Group at 731 Main St. Sikeston. It is hard to find

out exactly what Maverick does as they don’t have a business website. However, if you

run 731 Main St. in Sikeston you quickly find out Maverick is connected with nursing

home and health care providers for the elderly all at the same address. All were prior

lobbying clients of Dalton.

Then you look at court cases and you find this one:

https://www.nursinghomelawcenter.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Keith-Kinder-

v.-Hunter-Acres-Caring-Center-Inc.pdf

Maverick Consulting is a named defendant in a case where a patient with dementia in

her first week at Hunter Acres Nursing Home at 731 Main St. kept wandering off, ending

up in nearby apartments where she was found hiding behind a sofa. In a week’s time

she wandered off several times. Her last trip was to some nearby train tracks where

she was hit by a freight train.

It was the second wrongful death lawsuit in three years that Maverick was named as a

defendant.

Dalton has lobbied for other companies at 731 Main St. in Sikeston. He was the

lobbyist from 2008 to 2010 for Circle B Holding Company which owned and operated

low-cost nursing homes in rural Missouri, Alliance for Senior Care and Health Facilities

Management. How five corporations got squeezed into the below building is amazing!

Dalton is also the legal rep and lobbyist for the company that owns and built the

Stonecrest Nursing Home in Town and Country.

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The other new company Dalton is lobbying for is Notarize, Inc. He lists their address

as Arlington, VA outside of Washington, DC but in reality they are based in Boston.

They are a company that will notarize documents online for $25 a document.

They are apparently trying to get legislation passed in Missouri.

Here are Dalton’s current clients: (Conflicts are highlighted)

Armstrong Teasdale Clayton, MO. Lobbyists will often fail to list a law firm client as a

lobbying client and claim they are representing their law firm.

AT Government Strategies, LLC. This is Dalton’s own recently formed lobbying

company.

BJC Healthcare Systems St. Louis, MO This is a clear conflict of interest for Dalton as

BJC operates a large medical center/hospital and a pediatric surgical center in Town

and Country under city licenses and codes. Dalton has been a lobbyist for BJC since

12/21/17.

City of Hazelwood. Hazelwood and Town and Country could easily be on opposite

sides of an issue before the State Legislature.

Cummins, Inc. Indianapolis, IN

Drury Hotels. Creve Coeur, MO. Drury has not opened any hotel in Town and

Country…YET!

EBAY San Jose, CA There are issues of Internet sales companies not paying municipal

sales taxes.

Maverick Consulting 731 Main St. Sikeston. Company is connected to a number of low

pay nursing homes and has been mentioned in providing payday loans to employees

with high interest rates.

Missouri Society for Eye Physicians and Surgeons Jefferson City, MO

Missouri United School Insurance Council, Des Peres, MO

Missouri Local Asset Governance Clayton, MO. We are not sure what this group

does. It has the same address of Dalton’s Clayton, law office and its phone number is

Dalton’s private line.

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MPM-PPIA (Missouri Mutual Physicians Professional Indemnity Association) Creve

Coeur.

National Multiple Sclerosis Society Maryland Heights, MO

Northpoint Development Riverside, MO Owner and builder of Stonecrest of Town and

Country, where Dalton signed papers with the State of Missouri Health and Human

Services as the rep for the nursing home at the same time he was mayor of the city

overseeing construction.

Notarize, Inc. Arlington, VA

Security Industry and Financial Markets Association New York, NY

Special Administrative Board of Transitional School District of St. Louis

St. Louis County Municipal League This is a huge conflict for Dalton as some member

cities of the County MUNI League could have issues and proposals that are opposite of

the interests of Town and Country.

Here are his former clients while he was mayor or alderman in Town and County:

Atena Retirement Services Sacramento, CA

Alliance for Senior Care 731 Main Street Sikeston MO (address sound familiar?)

American Student Assistance Boston, MA

Barr Labs Pomona, NY

Capital For Business Clayton, MO

Circle B Enterprises 731 Main St. Sikeston, MO (address ring a bell?)

Citizens for Policy Reform Ballwin, MO

City of Crestwood

City of Poplar Buff

Coalition for Provider Fee Recovery St. Charles, MO

Coalition for Responsible Ground Transportation Olivette, MO

Commonwealth Brands (cigarette maker) Bowling Green, KY

Creve Coeur Fire Protection District (serves part of Town and Country)

CT Corporation Systems Raleigh, NC

EBAY San Jose, CA

Equis Corp Clayton, MO

Girl Scouts of America Kennett, MO

Health Facilities Management 731 Main St Sikeston, MO (recurring address)

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ING North America Insurance Holding Co. Sacramento, CA

King Maker Marketing (cigarettes) Paramus, NJ

Liggett Group (Cigarettes) North Carolina

Lincoln University Jefferson City, MO

Magna Entertainment Ontario, Canada

Metro West Fire Protection District Ballwin, MO

Missouri Securities Industry Assoc. Kansas City, MO

Missouri Water Well Assoc. New Franklin, MO

Monarch Fire Protection District

National Elevator Industry Salem, NY

Nationwide Insurance Columbus, OH

Nationwide Retirement Solutions Dublin, OH

Parson Commercial Tech Mechanicsburg, PA

Peak Resorts Wildwood, MO

Premier Manufacturing (no-brand cigarette maker) Chesterfield, MO

St. Louis County Board of Elections Maplewood, MO

St. Louis Science Center St. Louis

St. Louis Zoo St. Louis

Securities Industry Assoc. NY NY

Southeast Communities United for Regional Advancement Jefferson City

Southern Real Estate and Financial St. Louis, MO

Special Admin Board of Transitional St. Louis School Board

St. Louis Blues Hockey Club

St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Taxed Enough Already (unk group with address of Dalton’s law office and phone

number of Dalton’s direct private line)

West County EMS & Fire Protection District Manchester, MO Under contract including

contracts negotiated and signed by Dalton to provide EMS and Fire Service to Town

and Country since 1983.

DEER CENSUS REPORTS FOR TOWN AND COUNTRY AND CHESTERFIELD:

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Town and Country report by White Buffalo. (The census was done near the end of

lethal culling where 361 deer were killed and then taken for processing for food pantries

for the poor.) The city wide estimate of deer dropped from 61 per square mile in 2017

to 25.7 per sq mile in 2018 after the harvest. This is from the report:

Here is where the deer were counted on the three nights of the census:

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First Night Map:

February 3, 2018

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Second Night Map February 4, 2018

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THIRD NIGHT February 5, 2018

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THE HARVEST/CULL REPORT: Portions of the narrative report are included.

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CHESTERFIELD FIRST EVER DEER CENSUS: The White Buffalo census came up

with an average number of 24.6 deer per square mile in the areas they conducted the

first ever Chesterfield deer census.

Here are some selected sections from the report:

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COUNTY EXECUTIVE URGES NO LEFT TURN FROM EASTBOUND CLAYTON

ROAD INTO THE LAMP AND LANTERN SHOPPING CENTER. HE WANTS TO

SEND THEM TO SOMEWHERE MORE DANGEROUS: There are a number of vehicle

crashes (they used to be referred to as accidents) that occur on Clayton Road with

vehicle turning into the Lamp and Lantern shopping center. One culprit is the popular

Gas and Wash car wash just inside the Lamp and Lantern.

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However, as bad as this intersection might be the other one to Lamp and Lantern is just

as dangerous. The other one is on Woods Mill Road by the McDonald’s. There NB

traffic trying to turn into the Lamp and Lantern faces both traffic in one lane on Woods

Mill Road and traffic on another lane from the exit ramp from Highway 141. More often

than not it is the cars on the exit ramp and Woods Mill that crash into each other right at

the intersection. It is confusing and often the speed of exiting vehicles will fool drivers

waiting to turn left. Ignoring these facts, County Executive Steve Stenger wants to close

the EB Clayton Road entrance to Lamp and Lantern forcing motorists coming from

Chesterfield and Ballwin to use a much more dangerous point to turn left.

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Clayton Road is a Town and Country Municipal street from the East City Limits on Bopp

Road to just east of Hwy 141. It is a state road from Hwy 141 to Woods Mill and then is

a County Road from west of Woods Mill Road through Chesterfield, Ballwin, Ellisville

and Wildwood.

I can understand this if Democrat Stenger wants to injure or kill Republican West

County residents in auto crashes, but I don’t even think Stenger would be up for that.

This is the EB View on Clayton Road to the left turn lane into Lamp and Lantern. The

left turn lane starts in Chesterfield and ends in Town and Country.

This photo is sitting in the EB Clayton Road Left Turn lane to turn left into Lamp and

Lantern. As you can see there is an unobstructed view and when the Clayton Road

electric signal is red there is plenty of time to turn left.

This is the view looking west on Clayton Road with the right turn lane going into Lamp

and Lantern.

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Now let’s see where Steve Stenger and the County Traffic people want to send all the

Chesterfield traffic that wants to get into the Lamp and Lantern.

The black SUV is waiting on NB Woods Mill to turn into Lamp and Lantern. There are

four cars coming SB off the exit ramp from NB Hwy 141. The other SB thru lane is

Woods Mill Road that come out of a below grade curve. Motorists often concentrate on

one lane and don’t see the other. This is a far more dangerous location for crashes due

to vehicle speeds coming off of Highway 141. It is where Steve Stenger wants to send

motorists from EB Clayton Road.

All clear after the 4 cars pass, the black SUV can finally turns left.

HERE IS THE CAR CRASH (ACCIDENT) NUMBERS FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS:

(I was charged $25 to obtain the below information.)

2016:

Woods Mill at Lamp and Lantern: 7 (The majority of these crashes were vehicles on

SB Woods Mill Road making right turns against signs to go into Lamp and Lantern in

front of vehicles exiting Highway 141.

Clayton Road into Lamp and Lantern: 5

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2017:

Woods Mill at Lamp and Lantern: 7 NOTE: All of these were both vehicles going SB Woods

Mill or Hwy 141 exit ramp and driver in left lane wants to enter Lamp and Lantern and cuts in front of

right lane driver (disobeying signs).

Clayton Road into Lamp and Lantern: 12

So over the last two years it was 14 crashes on Woods Mill and 17 on Clayton Road.

This is not exactly strong enough evidence to close one entrance to EB traffic from

Chesterfield and Ballwin and force it all to a single intersection.

NO CITY NOTIFICATION TO BUSINESSES. On Saturday February 17, 11 days after

the Stenger letter, I went to some of the bigger businesses in Lamp and Lantern and

found that I was the first person to inform them of Stenger’s proposed legislation to

make it illegal to turn left from Clayton Road into the Shopping Center. I returned on

February 19 to catch some businesses I missed.

No city official, elected county or city office holder, police official had yet bothered to tell

any business owners about this proposal. Apparently retailers, despite providing most

of the cash through sales taxes to keep the city running are second class in the eyes of

many.

A bigger concern is the unsafe conditions many motorists will be placed in having to

make turns from Woods Mill Road into the shopping center.

UNAPPROVED CHESTERFIELD NEWSLETTER 263

February 25, 2018

MORE ON LAST WEEK’S FELONY DWI CRASH LEAVING VICTIM IN CRITICAL

CONDITION: The arrest of Andrian Rico-Esquivel, 22, of 623 Bigelow in the

Chesterfield Trailer Park was reported in our last newsletter. Rico-Esquivel was charged

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with Felony DWI in a crash on Chesterfield Parkway, which left the victim with extreme

brain damage. Here is more information instead of from a press release by the

Chesterfield PD, it’s from the Court files.

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ANOTHER FELONY DWI IN CHESTERFIELD INVOLVING A CHESTERFIELD

RESIDENT: It often takes a while to get lab results back. In the Felony DWI case

involving Richard Moder, Jr. 53, of 387 Shetland Valley Court Chesterfield, MO 63005,

the lab work on a blood sample came back pretty quick. Moder was arrested on August

3, 2017. He refused to take a breath test and he had to be taken to a hospital for a

blood draw. A warrant was issued on December 14, after his BAC level was found to

be .181%.

However he was not arrested until February 2, 2018.

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Moder 387 Shetland Valley Ct

Here are the details from the court files:

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Here is what amazes and saddens me. Despite having two prior DWI arrests St. Louis

County judges elected to reduce moving violations to “Illegal Parking” on 2/11/10,

10/25/12, and on 03/11/13 for 2 charges. Moder proved himself dangerous, why should

judges keep giving him breaks?

CHESTERFIELD POLICE BLOTTER:

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FOLLOWING THE MONEY: A month ago we looked at campaign contributions to area

state representatives. However, we did not have room for the money contributed to

State Senator Jill Schupp (Dem) whose district covers large parts of Town and Country,

Creve Coeur and Chesterfield.

The last quarter of 2017 showed the Schupp took in $80,109 and spent $20,584,

leaving her with $569,561 in the bank.

Here are some of her contributions of $1,000 or more or interesting ones that were less

$1,000. Keep in mind as a Democrat Schupp received lots of money from labor unions

that Republicans would not see. Schupp also took and reported a number of

contributions under $100 that is not required to be reported.

$500 Teamsters Local 600 St. Louis 12/30/17

$500 IBEW Local 53 Kansas City 10/30/17

$500 Commerce Bank Clayton, MO 12/30/17

$500 Labors Local 42 St. Louis, MO 12/30/17

$600 Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers & Trainmen 12/7/17

$1000 Sedey Harper St. Louis, MO 10/11/17

$1000 Husch –Blackwell, PC Clayton, MO 10/11/17

$1000 Hilda Jones Williamsburg, MO 10/11/17

$1000 Boeing PAC Arlington, VA 10/24/17

$1000 Pfizer Memphis, TN 10/24/17

$1000 UAW Region 5 Hazelwood, MO 10/30/17

$1000 Brenda Pereless Creve Coeur, MO 11/04/17

$1000 MBA Gateway Region Jefferson City 11/27/17

$1000 UFCW Local 655 West St. Louis CO 11/27/17

$1000 Viginia McDowell Creve Coeur, MO 11/27/17

$1000 Seldon Trible Rolla, MO 12/07/17

$1000 Steven Garner Springfield MO 12/07/17

$1000 Plumbers and Pipefitters St. Louis, MO 12/15/17

$1000 John Wright Columbia, MO 12/21/17

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$1000 Teamster Local 689 Overland, MO 12/29/17

$1000 Missouri Ostepathic PAC Jefferson City 12/30/17

$1000 Teamsters Springfield MO 12/30/17

$2600 Greg Johnston (Lobbyist) Jefferson City 10/24/17

$2600 John Simon (Lawyer) St. Louis 10/24/17

$2600 Centene Corp. Clayton, MO 11/08/17

$2600 Zevan, Davidson, Roman LLC St. Louis 11/27/17

$2600 Michelle Aycock Parma, MO 12/15/17

$2600 Missouri Drive Fund Springfield, MO 12/30/17

$2600 Donna Moog Clayton, MO 12/30/17

$2600 Susan Bronson Maryland Heights 12/30/17

MUSIC: Mark your calendar. It’s free and they are good! Its at the UMSL Touhill

Performing arts Center. I’m always amazed how few parents or grandparents take the

kids that play an instrument in the school band to a military band concert. These

musicians all have their Masters in music and some a PhD. They are some of the best

in country and the events are always free. If you kid plays in a middle school or high

school band, take them to this concert.

CARTOONS:

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