The Jefferson City Council approved two bills to help the city retain and attract employees, as well as a resolution supporting potential development of a nearly $20 million facility on the Missouri State Penitentiary grounds.
The Jefferson City Council on Monday voted to adopt a resolution recognizing Oct. 7, 1864, as a historically significant event when a potential Confederate attack was deterred in what has become known in the Capital City as the "battle that never was."
A new member of the Jefferson City Council, along with re-elected incumbents, were sworn in Monday just in time to approve city staff’s plan to seek redevelopers for more than a dozen properties along East Capitol Avenue.