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Bi-State Development is an interstate compact formed by Missouri and Illinois in 1949. Its operating budget in 2020 was $307 million, which is funded by sales taxes from the City of St. Louis and St. Louis County, the St. Clair County Illinois Transit District, federal and state grants and subsidies, and through fare paying passengers. Bi-State Development owns and operates Metro Transit, the St. Louis Downtown Airport, and the adjoining industrial business park, paddlewheel-style river excursion boats, and the tram system leading to the top of the Gateway Arch. =History= Bi-State Development was established on September 20, 1949, by an interstate compact which was approved by the United States Congress and signed by President Harry S. Truman on August 31, 1950. This created an organization that has broad powers in seven county-level jurisdictions (St. Louis City, St. Louis, St. Charles and Jefferson counties in Missouri and St. Clair, Madison and Monroe counties in Illinois), giving Bi-State Development the ability to plan, construct, maintain, own and operate bridges, tunnels, airports and terminal facilities, plan and establish policies for sewage and drainage facilities and other public projects, and issue bonds and exercise such additional powers as conferred upon it by the legislatures of both states. Funding is received from local, state and federal sources through grant, contract and sales tax revenue. Bi-State does not have taxing authority but is authorized to collect fees from the operation of its facilities. Today, Bi-State is organized as one parent organization with several business operating units including St. Louis Downtown Airport, Gateway Arch Riverfront, Metro, Bi-State Development Research Institute, Arts In Transit, Inc., and St. Louis Regional Freightway. Bi-State Development also has three self insurance funds (Health, Casualty and Workers’ Compensation) that support operations and operates Arts in Transit, Inc. a 501(c)(3) organization that ensures the integration of local art and design in the region's transit system.

HJ RES 465 - https://www.congress.gov/bill/86th-congress/house-joint-resolution/465/text?r=30&s=4

Missouri:

SB 11, 1957

SB 25, 1959

SJ RES 127 - https://www.congress.gov/bill/99th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/127/text?r=127&s=10

Missouri:

SB 416, 1977

SB 589, 1980

SB 395, 1981

HJ RES 78 - https://www.congress.gov/bill/104th-congress/house-joint-resolution/78/text?r=78&s=1
 * Codifies laws passed by both missouri and illinois legislators


 * Codifies laws passed by both missouri and illinois legislators

congressional recored:https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GPO-CRECB-1949-pt16/

81st congress : https://history.house.gov/Congressional-Overview/Profiles/81st/ illinois law histories : https://libsysdigi.library.uiuc.edu/ILHarvest/ILLegislative/ Gene McNary's attacks on Bi-State in the 80s

Bi-State Development Will Not Revive Loop Trolley, Transit Agency CEO Says: https://news.stlpublicradio.org/show/st-louis-on-the-air/2020-01-24/bi-state-development-will-not-revive-loop-trolley-transit-agency-ceo-says

St. Louis Metropolitan Area Rapid Transit Feasibility Study

Wash U Bi-State papers: https://catalog.wustl.edu/search~S2?/XBi-State+Development+Agency&SORT=D/XBi-State+Development+Agency&SORT=D&search=&SUBKEY=Bi-State+Development+Agency/1%2C27%2C27%2CB/frameset&FF=XBi-State+Development+Agency&SORT=D&18%2C18%2C

=Governance= A 10-member Board of Commissioners sets policy and direction for the organization. The governor of Missouri appoints five commissioners and the County Boards of St. Clair and Madison Counties in Illinois appoint five commissioners. All commissioners must be resident voters of their respective state and must reside within the Bi-State Metropolitan District. Each term is for five years and each serves without compensation.

Missouri commissioners

 * Rose Windmiller - Chair. Rose Windmiller was appointed by Missouri Governor Mike Parson in July 2018. Currently, she is the Associate Vice Chancellor of Government and Community Relations at Washington University in St. Louis. Windmiller sits on the boards of the Independent Colleges & Universities of Missouri, The Missouri Cures Educational Foundation, the Higher Education Council and is the former Chairwoman of Citizens for Modern Transit.
 * Vernal Brown - Secretary. Vernal Brown was appointed by Missouri Governor Jay Nixon in 2015. Since 2000, Brown has served as United Auto Workers Region 5 Ford Retiree Benefits Representative.
 * Nate K. Johnson - Commissioner. Nate K. Johnson was appointed by Missouri Governor Mike Parson in June 2020. Currently, Johnson is the President of Real Estate Solutions Group and serves as Director of Agent Development for Redkey Realty Leaders. Johnson also serves as the President of the Board of Directors for the Metropolitan St. Louis Equal Housing Opportunity Council which fights to end housing discrimination, is a member of the St. Louis Regional Business Council's Young Professional Leadership 100 Group, and serves on the Board of Directors of Trailnet.
 * Fred P. Pestello - Commissioner. Fred P. Pestello was appointed by Missouri Governor Mike Parson in October 2018. Pestello is the current President of Saint Louis University and serves on the board of Civic Progress, an education consultation organization in St. Louis, is vice-chair of the Cortex Innovation Community Board, a co-working campus in St. Louis' Central West End, and serves on the board of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities.
 * Sam Gladney - Commissioner. Sam Gladney was appointed by Missouri Governor Mike Parson in December 2020. Gladney is a partner at Gladney Law Group where he handles labor matters between employees and their employers, he also serves on the Board of Directors at Places For People, a mental health non-profit in St. Louis, and is a member of the AFL-CIO Lawyers Coordinating Committee.

Illinois commissioners

 * Justin Zimmerman - Vice Chair. Justin Zimmerman was appointed by Madison County, Illinois Board Chairman Kurt Prenzler in February 2017. Zimmerman is an attorney for the Illinois office of Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith in its General Liability and Environmental and Toxic Tort departments, and currently serves on the National Leadership Council at Maryville University.
 * Herbert Simmons - Treasurer. Herbert Simmons was appointed by the St. Clair County Board in February 2019. Simmons the current Mayor of East Carondelet, Illinois, the director of the St. Clair County Emergency Management Agency and is the Executive Director of the St. Clair County Emergency Telephone System Board. Simmons also sits on the boards of the Southwestern Illinois Metropolitan and Regional Planning Commission, the St. Clair County Parks and Recreation, East-West Gateway Council of Governments, Illinois Terrorism Task Force Board, Southwestern Illinois Police Chief Association Advisory Board, and is the current Chairman of the Board for St. Clair County Transit.
 * Irma Golliday - Commissioner. Irma Golliday was appointed by St. Clair County Board Chairman Mark A. Kern in February 2015. Golliday has served as Executive Director of the East St. Louis Park District since 2005, and currently serves on the St. Clair County Parks Commission and on the boards of East St. Louis School District #189, the Southern Illinois Healthcare Foundation, and the Katherine Dunham Centers for Arts & Humanities. Golliday previously served as the Southern Region Coordinator for the Illinois Secretary of State's Organ and Tissue Donation Program.
 * Derrick Cox - Commissioner. Derrick Cox was appointed by the Madison County Board and Chairman Kurt Prezler in July 2018. Cox currently serves as a trustee for Collinsville Township. Cox is a property owner and manager, serves as an event emcee for St. Louis Ballpark Village, and was a radio personality for country music radio station WIL-FM.
 * Terry Beach - Commissioner. Terry Beach was appointed by the St. Clair County Board in January 2020. Beach worked as the Economic Development Director of St. Clair County, Illinois and served as the executive Director of the St. Clair County Intergovernmental Grants Department which managed federal and state grant programs.

=Enterprises=

Metro Transit
Metro Transit is an enterprise of Bi-State Development Agency created in 1963 as a unification of 15 independent transit companies on both the Missouri and Illinois sides of the compact. The creation of Metro was paid by the selling of $26.5 Million dollars worth of bonds to Stifel, Nicolaus & Co. of St. Louis and  John Nuveen & Co. of Chicago. Seven months after the incorporation of Metro, Bi-State was running a deficit until October of 1963. This was largely due to a repayment into a working capital fund of $44,000. The following month, then Mayor of St. Louis, Raymond R. Tucker, proposed removing downtown St. Louis's streetcar system and replace it with Metro busses to alleviate traffic congestion.

Proposals for creating a unified transit system in jurisdiction of Bi-State began to be presented as early as 1960. The Public Service Co. of St. Louis submitted a plan to then St. Louis Mayor Raymond Tucker and St. Louis County Supervisor James McNary based off the 1959 study conducted by W. C. Gilman & Company. The plan proposed acquiring already existing private transit companies, replacing streetcar lines with busses, establishing new routes and express lines into suburban communities, the eliminating gross receipt and motor fuel taxes, and the removal of service cars. In response, McNary counter proposed that Bi-State take over St. Louis' transit operations, urging that Bi-State acquire or build bridges over the Mississippi River, operate a central bus terminal, and develop a transit system that would service the St. Louis metropolitan area. Tucker rejected the Public Service Co.'s plan and argued for the city of St. Louis to purchase the companies facilities and create a publicly owned transit system.

1952 January 14 - bi state creates committiee about taking over transit - https://www.proquest.com/hnpstlouispostdispatchshell/docview/1880748217/7DB213A28AED409CPQ/12?accountid=14083

1960

januay 10 1960 - proposal of singular county/city bus service, includes the plan proposed to both city/county but bi-state not named, https://www.proquest.com/hnpstlouispostdispatchshell/docview/1886774602/2CC186E371634AC0PQ/5?accountid=14083

june 2 1960, stl county supervisor McNarey urges bi-state to unify the transit system, tucker opposes, - https://www.proquest.com/hnpstlouispostdispatchshell/docview/1886776670/E833E2A7A68D44B2PQ/3?accountid=14083

june 3 1960, bi-state has the authority to create transit system, - https://www.proquest.com/hnpstlouispostdispatchshell/pagelevelimagepdf/1886776056/pagelevelImagePDF/4E91FDF55FE745DBPQ/1?t:lb=t&accountid=14083

july 1 1060, tucker counter proposal to mcnary, - https://www.proquest.com/hnpstlouispostdispatchshell/docview/1886771926/4ED86AC0BE9C494APQ/2?accountid=14083

october 8 1960 - bus union leader rejects city/county control of buslines, first mention i can find of suggesting bi-state take over, https://www.proquest.com/hnpstlouispostdispatchshell/docview/1886782594/2CC186E371634AC0PQ/9?accountid=14083

october 29 1960 - bi-state announces they are able and interested int taking care of transit in stl, https://www.proquest.com/hnpstlouispostdispatchshell/docview/1886792069/2CC186E371634AC0PQ/10?accountid=14083

nov 20 1960, Spread comparing cleveland and St. Louis transit systems, - https://www.proquest.com/hnpstlouispostdispatchshell/pagelevelimagepdf/1886842459/pagelevelImagePDF/E833E2A7A68D44B2PQ/1?t:lb=t&accountid=14083

1961

jan 4 1961 - unification of transit systems under bi-state urged in 1959 report (https://collections.shsmo.org/manuscripts/saint-louis/s0405) made public, article goes into a lot of detail about the report - https://www.proquest.com/hnpstlouispostdispatchshell/docview/1886815801/1978364DA17E47A1PQ/2?accountid=14083

january 5 1961 - bus ceos endorse public transit plan, https://www.proquest.com/hnpstlouispostdispatchshell/docview/1886812931/1978364DA17E47A1PQ/4?accountid=14083

january 6 1961 - mayors show favorable attitudes towards bus unifcation - https://www.proquest.com/hnpstlouispostdispatchshell/docview/1886802630/1978364DA17E47A1PQ/7?accountid=14083

January 15 1961 - discussing three plans for transit, new agency, bi-state, private ownership https://www.proquest.com/hnpstlouispostdispatchshell/docview/1886834870/8FB5A1E89B6B4B54PQ/5?accountid=14083

january 22 1961 - ex city councoluer crowe supports city owned transit co - https://www.proquest.com/hnpstlouispostdispatchshell/docview/1886840176/8FB5A1E89B6B4B54PQ/6?accountid=14083

january 25 1961 - opposition at meetings towards city ownership of transit co - https://www.proquest.com/hnpstlouispostdispatchshell/docview/1886822536/8FB5A1E89B6B4B54PQ/7?accountid=14083

january 26 1961 - further discussion about bi-state taking over - https://www.proquest.com/hnpstlouispostdispatchshell/docview/1886801159/8FB5A1E89B6B4B54PQ/8?accountid=14083

march 26 1961 - GOP supports bi-state control - https://www.proquest.com/hnpstlouispostdispatchshell/docview/1886848358/B17711EF6A1E48A0PQ/28?accountid=14083

march 26 1061 - mentions tucker's transit bill failing a week before, find news about that - https://www.proquest.com/hnpstlouispostdispatchshell/pagelevelimagepdf/1886848617/pagelevelImagePDF/B17711EF6A1E48A0PQ/1?t:lb=t&accountid=14083

june 29 1961 - transit firms favor bi-state control, https://www.proquest.com/hnpstlouispostdispatchshell/docview/1886848684/8FB5A1E89B6B4B54PQ/28?accountid=14083

1963

feb 15 1963, Some of the cos selling to bi state,(Ferguson-Broadway Bustlines, Brown Moter Lines, St. Louis County Transit Co.)  - https://www.proquest.com/hnpstlouispostdispatchshell/docview/1886952304/E2D826ACEECE4931PQ/2?accountid=14083 - https://www.proquest.com/hnpstlouispostdispatchshell/docview/1886952304/E2D826ACEECE4931PQ/2?accountid=14083

feb 19, 1963, comments from a republican senator curtus about bi-state buying the 15 cos - https://www.proquest.com/hnpstlouispostdispatchshell/docview/1886952037/E2D826ACEECE4931PQ/3?accountid=14083

feb 26 1963, article with price tag of consolidation, - https://www.proquest.com/hnpstlouispostdispatchshell/docview/1886950840/E2D826ACEECE4931PQ/4?accountid=14083

march 12 1963, article with price tag of consolidation and other cos selling to bi state - https://www.proquest.com/hnpstlouispostdispatchshell/docview/1886952565/E2D826ACEECE4931PQ/6?accountid=14083

March 29 1963, Article about the consolidation, - https://www.proquest.com/hnpstlouispostdispatchshell/docview/1886970845/736B06C34A924539PQ/5?accountid=14083

(April 1, 1963), Ad announcing the consolidation date - https://www.proquest.com/hnpstlouispostdispatchshell/docview/1886952532/736B06C34A924539PQ/2?accountid=14083

Sept. 1 1963, Ad about updated service info for consolidation of 15 private transit cos, - https://www.proquest.com/hnpstlouispostdispatchshell/docview/1887022074/CC6A7671B15D435APQ/6?accountid=14083

nov 26 1963, Article about the St. Louis Mayor Raymond R. Tucker wanting to remove Streetcars from downtown St. Louis and replace them with Bi-State Busses, - https://www.proquest.com/hnpstlouispostdispatchshell/docview/1887008172/26DF5F1AAF054AE1PQ/7?accountid=14083

St. Louis Downtown Airport
St. Louis Downtown Airport

Gateway Arch
Gateway Arch