(From Stotts City Mayor Tracy Knight)
Residents are hereby informed that a Special Meeting of the Board of Aldermen has been requested by two aldermen and scheduled for Friday, May 29, 2026, at 7:00 p.m. at Stotts City Hall.
At approximately 10:36 a.m. today, the Mayor’s Office received email notification from the City Clerk regarding the requested special meeting. The meeting agenda was later publicly posted at approximately 12:00 p.m.
While notification was provided prior to posting, the agenda itself was prepared and posted without prior coordination or input from the Mayor’s Office regarding its contents or publication.
In the interest of transparency and ensuring residents remain informed about the operations of their municipal government, the posted agenda is being shared publicly alongside this statement.
As Mayor, I believe residents deserve open communication regarding city business, including when meetings are called, how agendas are prepared, and how official actions are communicated to the public.
The City of Stotts City administration remains committed to:
• Maintaining transparency with residents
• Ensuring accurate public records
• Addressing ongoing operational and governance concerns
• Working toward restoring public trust and accountability within city government
Residents are encouraged to attend the special meeting, remain engaged in the process, and continue voicing their concerns and questions regarding city operations and the future direction of the City of Stotts City, Missouri.
Additional information will be shared as it becomes available through official city communication channels.
This is very sad and childish behavior from public officials. Their actions clearly give the impression that they are trying to avoid accountability and hide from the results of the audit. Citizens deserve transparency, professionalism, and officials who are willing to address concerns openly instead of avoiding them.
ReplyDeleteThis is exactly why people have lost trust in public officials and why communities end up going down these paths. When transparency is ignored and accountability is avoided, it creates frustration, division, and distrust within the community. Citizens should not have to fight just to get honesty and professionalism from the people elected or appointed to serve them.
This and many other concerns are why citizens are asking the aldermen and the clerk/collector to step down and be removed from office. We have gathered the required number of signatures for the petition, and it has now been submitted to the appropriate government offices. The people of this community deserve leadership that is honest, transparent, professional, and accountable to the citizens they serve.
This is holding to an ordinance in place. The mayor was given the ordinance also but I don’t see it mentioned here in this article. So let’s actually talk accountability while you hide behind anonymous and half truths.
ReplyDeleteGet it together Alderman. Act like adults.
ReplyDeleteFrom the other reports one stated a board meeting could not happen because no quorum.
ReplyDeleteTo me it seems like they are doing the right thing by calling a special meeting to get initial city business done before the end of the month.
Why must people seek the worst in others?!?
It appears The Turner Report is becoming SC public "communications central" - any progress on the Convirs Web Design proposal for SC web site??
ReplyDeleteStotts City people could have just supported the Stotts City Sunbeam! Local newspapers are the best!
DeleteSounds like the Stotts City Mayor has a control problem. What the alderman has done is legal. So, maybe the facts should be reported correctly instead of a one sided view.
ReplyDeleteLooks like the mayor may be running to whoever runs this page as a little whiny tattle tale. 🤣
This is a place for the city resident to make comments
DeleteMissouri sunshine law requires at least 24 hour notice of any public meeting. If a meeting is necessary in a shorter time the reason for the lack of notice has to be provided in the minutes.
ReplyDeleteThese comments are exactly why nothing gets fixed.
ReplyDeleteInstead of discussing the audit findings, some people would rather attack the mayor, attack citizens, and pretend everything is fine.
The mayor isn't a "whiny tattle tale," and she doesn't have "control issues" because she asks questions and brings concerns to the public's attention. Holding officials accountable and demanding transparency is part of leadership. If nobody asked questions, nobody would know what was going on.
The audit didn't write itself. Independent auditors documented issues. Those findings aren't opinions—they are findings that the city now has to answer for.
So when people say, "The aldermen did nothing wrong," did they actually read the audit?
Did they read about the budgeting issues? Did they read about the procedures auditors said needed correction? Did they read about the concerns involving city operations and compliance?
Because simply saying "everything was legal" doesn't make the audit disappear.
And as for the people attacking the mayor, stop acting like a schoolyard bully. Name-calling isn't an argument. It's what people do when they don't want to discuss the facts.
To the person the comment about the Sunbeam newspaper I think you have the city, the Sunbeam closed in 1907.
"These comments are exactly why nothing gets fixed" .... anyone notice the striking similarities between the audit published in 2000 and the current audit published in 2026 - what did Yogi say "dejavu all over again"
Deletehow's this - "And as for the people attacking the alderman et al, stop acting like a schoolyard bully. Name-calling isn't an argument. It's what people do when they don't want to discuss the facts." something about geese and ganders
DeleteI wasn't aware that the community was name calling the alderman. All we want is the aldermen to work for the community not their own personal click and the mayor to get the paperwork she had requested under the sunshine act days ago!!!! You can two step all around but it's putting doubt in people's minds , I'm beginning to believe the post that compared the last audit to this audit!!! Also when did they start signing the checks for bills "Outside Before The Meeting " I thought that the meeting was to approve to pay the bills???? Just wondering
Deletefrom a post in response to another story in the Tuner Report(May 22 2026) "... let's talk about the past Mayor Amy McCullough, her husband, the water boy, and the collector/clerk sitting around after an meeting and threatening to unlive people in town or the water boy who drives around drunk and pushes disabled elderly citizens down in the street. Or the past Mayor Timothy Blankenship googling how to hire a hit man for $5k and told what he told the FBI about that. Now my question to you is would you like me to continue to tell the world about the stuff that goes on in this town that is at the hands of the city officials,...." and believe me when I say I have photos and proof of it all. I think you need to go sit down in the corner before the world learns about the officials being seen at local drug house doing dope, and so much more." may not be literal name calling but my goodness have not seen in print this level of nasty word play directed at Mayor Knight nor should there be - this cited post is not just a disagreement with how city officials conduct city business but it appears to be highly personal attacks on specific individuals
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