Springfield City Council

The proposed project would provide years of increased capacity at Noble Hill Sanitary Landfill, which expects to take in some 1,075 tons of trash per day.

A few days ago, KSMU’s Gregory Holman caught up with candidates for Springfield mayor and city council.

The city manager position's starting pay has been increased to $350,000. When previous city manager Jason Gage was hired in 2018, he was paid $220,000 per year. He received a severance package worth more than $415,000 upon his resignation.

Heather Hardinger and Eric Pauly are running for citywide General Seat A, and Matthew Simpson and Bruce Adib-Yazdi are running for Zone 4 — the seat covering southeast Springfield — in the April 8 municipal election.

For the second time since 2020, people living in southeast Springfield’s Galloway area have delivered a bundle of petition signatures to the City of Springfield — a sign of yet another confrontation between neighborhoods and Springfield government.

Late last week, candidates running for office in Missouri’s April 8 municipal elections faced a campaign finance deadline 40 days before the vote. KSMU compiled key stats on candidates running for Springfield mayor and city council.

It’s KSMU News Director Michele Skalicky. Two years ago, Springfield City Council approved a new comprehensive plan that charts the city’s future for the next two decades. That plan is called Forward SGF, and it focuses on the city’s growth and land use. Over the past several months, city officials and consultants have been ironing out some of the fine print — a community development code update. I’m joined by KSMU’s public affairs reporter, Gregory Holman, to help explain what’s going on with this major change in Missouri’s third-largest city.

The move comes despite voices of opposition from nearby neighbors.

Local agencies — including Missouri’s largest public school district — are missing out on millions of tax dollars due to the increasing number of Springfield vehicles on the roads with expired license plates or registration tags. In response the Springfield mayor is encouraging drivers to get legal.

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