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Building Permits & Inspections

The City of Arnold requires construction permits for both commercial and residential structures, including, but not limited to buildings, fences, retaining walls, and signs. Only contractors licensed by the City may do work in Arnold.

You should submit permit applications at least two weeks prior to your anticipated start date. While, it is the City’s objective to process all applications within one to two business weeks, due to seasonal fluctuations, project scope or complexity, and the completeness and accuracy of the application, turnaround time may vary.

Whether commercial or residential, the cost of construction and the number of disciplines in the permit determines the permit fee. For assistance in determining the permit fee or for any other information, please contact the Department at 636-282-2378.

General Permit Requirements and Fee Schedules

Visit the MyGov Portal to request Permits and view Fee Schedules.

Permit Applications

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Construction & Remodeling Requirements

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Contractor License Applications

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FAQs

A permit is required if the shed is over 200 square feet. Further, if the shed is over 120 square feet a permit is not required but it does have to meet the setbacks from the property line. Most often the setbacks are 15 feet from the rear, and 8 feet from the side property lines.

The fee is based on the cost of construction. The fee is due at the time of application and plan submittal.

If the exposed face of the wall is over 2 feet in height a permit is required.

Yes, new codes have been adopted since the old deck was built and the distance to property lines (setbacks) may not be correct for the old deck.

Yes. Anyone that does work in the City of Arnold needs to apply for a business license with our City Clerk’s Office. There is an application; fee and they will require proof of insurance. If you are an electrician, plumber or drain layer, you will also need to get you specialty license with the city. This would require an application, copy of an existing license, fee and a $5,000 surety bond to the City of Arnold.

We can direct you to the proper FEMA map to identify your property. We will provide additional amendments or revisions that are not represented on the FEMA map. If you need to make any applications with FEMA we direct you to the appropriated applications and private agencies to assist you.

An existing structure inspection is required if a house is to be sold or a new tenant is moving in. There is an application to fill out and a $50.00 fee.

Yes. Anytime a new resident or tenant moves into a property, an occupancy permit is required. There is no fee for an occupancy permit.

2021-07-13T09:01:53-05:00April 23rd, 2019|
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Ghosts of House Springs

Ghosts of House Springs

Eternal Resting Place for Pioneers & Native Americans in Jefferson County

Missouri Osage warrior painted by George Catlin early 1800s Public domain image

Fifteen miles from Arnold, some folks believe the unincorporated House Springs area is haunted by ghosts of massacred pioneers, dead children, murderers, thieves and Native American Indians.

It just might be. Why?

House Springs history is fraught with tragedy, sadness, bankruptcy, violence, poverty, illness and disappointment – not to mention unnatural death. Originally named House Spring, House Springs is for certain very much different today than it was years ago. Yet people still wonder.

In 1673, French Jesuit priest Jacques Marquette and fur trader Louis Jolliet canoed thru the Meramec River’s confluence with the Mississippi River near Arnold. Marquette later drew a map naming both a Native American Indian tribe and the territory Missouri.

In 1682 French explorer La Salle claimed the entire Mississippi River basin for France, calling it the Louisiana Territory. Pioneers were permitted to settle if they cleared land and built a dwelling. President Thomas Jefferson purchased the entire territory in 1803, ordering Lewis and Clark with 46 men on a keelboat to find the Pacific Ocean.

House Family Deaths

A pioneer named James Head settled in the House Springs area in 1795. He named a tributary  of the Big River “Head’s Creek.” Mr. Head, about whom little is known, sold his land to German immigrant Adam House, who was lured by its river, natural spring, fertile soil and abundant sugar maple trees.

House built a cabin near the spring that, regrettably, was a rest stop for Osage Native Americans traveling to St. Louis to trade animal furs. History is unclear about why Osage warriors brutally murdered Adam House and one of his sons, yet they did. Apparently, when he saw the Osage warriors House sent two of his three children to get help as his youngest son Jacob stayed with him. Here is an official report about the horrid fate of Adam House and young son, as translated from the original French dated  March 19, 1800:

“I, Pierre Treget, commandant at Carondelet, pursuant to orders from Don Carlos Dehault Delassus, commandant at St. Louis, repaired to the Renault Forks, with the few militiamen I could assemble, in pursuit of the Indians. On reaching the place, I found an old man dead, head cut off and laid at his side, scalp taken and body full of wounds from musket shots; and a few paces off, a boy eight or nine years old, head cut off and lying near him, face smeared with blood, with a small piece of maple sugar in his mouth, no wound on his body from either musket or knife; a dead cow, one horn carried off, dead calf, head cut off, beds in the house cut to pieces, utensils broken and strewed about the house. Ascertained that the murders had been committed by the Osages. Buried the bodies.”

When word spread that Osage warriors murdered House and his young son, settlers nearby named the area House Spring to honor them.  In 1826, when Jefferson Barracks was established about 30 miles from House Spring, the U.S. Army began to vanquish native Americans. The vanquishing intensified when former general Andrew Jackson was elected President in 1828. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 promoted by Jackson was enacted by congress and harshly enforced by the U.S. Army.

Town of Demaree

Cornelius Demaree house built 1837 shown soon before demolition in 2017. Historic Barnhart-Imperial Facebook page photo.

In 1837 Cornelius H. Demaree moved from Kentucky to buy House Spring land parcels. He became Jefferson County’s first postmaster and a merchant with his general store Demaree & Co. Mr. Demaree had high hopes for getting rich by creating a town but he bankrupted in 1857, forcing sale of his land on Jefferson County’s Courthouse steps. Early pioneer Patrick Byrne of Byrnes Mill handled Demaree’s estate.

Ginger Brickey, senior genealogy clerk at the Northwest Branch of Jefferson County Library whose local family dates to about 1800, notes that In 1860, English-born physician George A. Smith purchased the property from Demaree’s estate. That  year, Smith renamed the House Spring village Demaree, platting along the west side of what is now State Route MM.

Brickey asserts, “Dr. Smith really oversold the place. He boasted about building a gravel road all the way to St. Louis and making Demaree a new Jefferson County seat, yet none of that happened.” The gravel roadway Dr. Smith envisioned is now Missouri Route 30. According to Missouri Preservation, Cornelius Demaree’s house was built in House Spring near Main Street and State Route MM:

The Burgess House in House Springs built in 1883. Many years later the land hosted a Hardees Restaurantt. Jefferson County Library photo

“The building was originally a log structure completed circa 1837. Mr. Demaree lived on the several-acre plot with his family until his death in 1857. By 1860 the property was auctioned off in parcels by Dr. George Smith, who marketed the plots as ‘The Town of Demaree,’ claiming that there were already fifteen buildings in the town. According to probate records at the time, these buildings included the dwelling, a stable, a blacksmith shop, and several well houses. Eventually the Demaree family disappeared from the area and the town was re-named for the House family House Springs. Over the years the Demaree house was expanded from cabin to a two story center hall with a columned two-story gallery extending the entire length of the house’s principal façade. This house was important in the history and settlement of this area in Jefferson County.”

According to the Historical Barnhart/Imperial organization, the Adam House cabin stood 50 yards north of the spring. When a large home was built near this spring in 1883 by Edward Burgess and his wife Josephine Cromwell a headless skeleton was unearthed – presumably, the bones of decapitated Adam House or his son. The bones were boxed and re-buried in a location unknown.

The historic Burgess House built on Adam House’s land was sold to another family in 1942. The Burgess site is near the intersection of Highway 30 and Highway W that runs northwest to Eureka and Highway MM. After a losing battle by preservationists in House Springs, the old Burgess home, shed and barn were demolished.

Civil War Ghosts

Civil War Bushwhackers supporting the Confederacy holding pistols. Wikipedia Commons photo

It’s hard to know how many Bushwhackers and Jayhawkers may have died fighting near House Springs during the Civil War. Bushwhackers and Jayhawkers rampaged across Jefferson County killing each other during that tragic conflict. Civil War guerillas were generally not enlisted in military forces on either side but sympathized with one cause or another. Many deadly skirmishes occurred between those guerilla fighters. Some fatalities are presumed buried in graves or unmarked caves. The graveyard nearest to House Springs at St. Martins United Church of Christ in High Ridge didn’t open until 1869, four years after the war ended.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that after the Civil War  “Main Street in House Springs became lined with stores, a tavern, a grocery store… The old building sits in a line with some of the oldest buildings in Jefferson County.” A two-story frame building on Main Street became the mercantile store of J.E.C. Wilson. The building was a tavern called Votaw’s Saloon…that supposedly dates pre-Civil War and its bricks were allegedly made by slaves in the area. There was also a blacksmith shop and a grocery store. Valentine Leight General Store, also known as V. Leight New Store, Leight Mercantile Co., and Garden of Eva, also were historic general stores in House Springs. The commercial structures were built in three stages between 1894 and 1910 with Late Victorian style details.

In 2012 the Red Brick Saloon hosted the Red Brick Sporting Goods Store . Jefferson County Library photo

A huge fire on October 14, 1940, totally destroyed the Charles Boemler Store in House Springs burning down the store, U.S. post office and Brimmer’s Funeral Parlor, likely containing caskets of dead people. Yet news of the fire and charred caskets was eclipsed by news that an ancient Native American burial ground with “cist” graves was found. The cist graves each had a single body placed in a hole covered with stone, according to the Jefferson County Leader. A longtime local resident whose two great grandmothers were Native Americans reported that a large camp of Indians lived along the Big River in the early 1800s. That area beside the Big River was rich in Native American artifacts. The name of the road that runs along Head’s Creek near the spring was changed to Indian Springs.

Ginger Brickey, senior genealogist at Jefferson County Library, concludes, “There were definitely many historic tragedies and killings in this area and if there are stories of hauntings and ghosts going back in history it would not be surprising.” Indeed, it would not be surprising.

Story by Jeff Dunlap for the City of Arnold.

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2023-01-30T16:16:06-06:00January 30th, 2023|Arnold History News|
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Who Named the Meramec River?

Who Named the Meramec River?

Arnold’s first highway for trading and industrial shipping is the Meramec River. It has been crucial for life support since prehistoric times, and one of Missouri’s greatest recreational resources for more than 150 years.

Origin of the name Meramec is full of contradictions. Some say it means “ugly fish” or “catfish.” Some pioneers called it “The River of Death.” Its name is attributed to various Native American Indian tribes and, also, to early Jesuit missionaries and even British cartographers.

According to author H. R. Schoolcraft in his book “A View of the Lead Mines of Missouri,” the “Miaramigoua River” – known today as the Meramec — was discovered by a French Jesuit priest, Father Jacques Gravier, on his voyage down the Mississippi in 1699.

Missouria Indian in traditional Canoe

Father Gravier put into French spelling the sound that Native American Indians called the river. One of those was “Miaramigoua,” which Father Gravier’s journal showed he translated as “the river of ugly fish.”

Michael Mccafferty, author and Algonquian linguist, says the river’s name appears in a dictionary produced by 18th century Jesuit missionary Antoine-Robert Le Boullenger, and that, in the Miami-Illinois Native American language, the name is “Myaarameekwa.” In Algonquian dialect, “Myaara” means ‘ugly’ and “meekwa” means ‘fish’.

Over the centuries, English speakers mutilated river names that French explorers transcribed. Translated into English, some names supposedly meant “Water of the Bitter Spring,” perhaps due to high sulfur content, or “Waters of Death” due to drownings. Early maps labeled the river “Maramig” and “Mirameg.” Its pronunciation became Marameg, and then finally Meramec, sometimes spelled as Maramec.

Fun Times

I wonder how many scholarly experts have climbed aboard an inflated inner tube or a canoe with a rope attached to a cooler full of supplies to spend a day – or weekend – floating merrily, merrily, merrily downstream with friends or family members?

View toward Arnold from confluence of Meramec and Mississippi rivers. Copyright Jo Schaper. Used with permission.

Dozens of different campgrounds, canoe liveries and rural resorts dot Meramec shorelines, especially along the Upper Meramec away from big communities. They attract thousands of fun seekers every year (although pandemic numbers may vary).

The term “downstream” for the Meramec means both north and south because with its twists and turns the river flows both ways and, direction wise, west-east, too. See map  https://mdc.mo.gov/sites/default/files/2021-12/200_2021_MeramecRiver.pdf .

Dan Drees of the Sierra Club-Missouri Chapter, wrote, “The headwaters of the Meramec River begin in the Ozarks near Salem, traveling 228 miles to join the Mississippi River south of St. Louis. The Meramec’s spring-fed waters have provided a summer haven for river recreation…the Meramec is also a haven for the greatest variety of aquatic life in the Midwest, giving observant explorers constant opportunities to discover the wealth of aquatic life it shelters.”

The Meramec drains 3,980 square miles in its journey to the Mississippi River near Arnold’s Flamm City Park. Native Americans living by the Meramec at various times represented some 20 different tribes including Delaware, Shawnee, Fox, Sauk, Kickapoo, Otoe-Missouria, and the fierce Osage. Some of those native peoples were subsets of Algonquin families that originated in Canada. Many died out after Europeans populated the colonies, or the U.S. government moved them to other states starting in the 1830s.

Ancient evidence of Native American tribes living near the Meramec ranges from flint digging tools and arrowheads, to shards of fabric, pottery, and teeth, to ancient graves uncovered by archeologists.

Moody Waters

Pacific resident Jo Schaper is an author, historian, poet, and secretary of the Meramec River Recreation Association. Its members include government officials, environmentalists, trail groups, and citizens promoting Meramec River activities with careful environmental stewardship. (https://www.facebook.com/MeramecRRA/).

Washing cars in Meramec River, circa 1920.

“The Meramec can be very destructive,” Schaper asserts. “It can be very beautiful. It has many moods.”

“The basin is blessed with springs, caves, and mineral resources, amongst them lead, zinc, iron, ‘glass sand,’ sandstone, limestone, and dolomite… The river flows between spectacular bluffs in many areas,” she says.

About 1820, a prospector named Thomas James discovered iron ore in Phelps County and built the Maramec Iron Works. “Such industries established upstream helped open up the river valley to settlement,” Schaper says. “The Meramec became a shipping route for pig iron, timber, and other goods on flatboats and shallow draft steamboats. Small towns arose settled by Germans, Scottish, Irish, English farmers, and businessmen, as well as settlers from Appalachia, Tennessee, and Kentucky.”

“The lower Meramec developed an extensive truck garden and farmer’s market trade with St. Louis merchants…River bottom farmers planted wheat, corn, and soybeans. The ‘glass sand’ industry grew, as did sand and gravel extraction for projects…shipped to rail points by barge, then by rail to places beyond.”

History aside, among fun-minded people today the Meramec River may be best known for camping, canoeing, cave exploring, fishing, hiking, kayaking, orienting, float trips, and environmental protectionism.

Towns with Meramec River access, and varying facilities, include Bourbon, Cuba, Eureka, Leasburg, Kirkwood, Pacific, St. James, Steelville, Sullivan, Valley Park and Arnold. In rainy seasons, each may have to deal with high water or dangerous floods.

Trout fishing in Missouri image copyright Missouri Outdoors Meramec Springs Trout Park.

Maramec Spring Park (alternative spelling) about 85 miles from Arnold in St. James, is one of many magnets for rainbow trout fishing, camping and recreation. It pumps 100 million gallons of fresh water a day, bubbling up from 350 feet below ground. The park is open all year. Missouri trout season is March 1-October 31. Camping season is February 28-October 30.  Catch and Release fishing is November-February. Visit http://www.maramecspringpark.com/

Bennett Spring State Park is another popular destination for camping, rainbow trout fishing, and hiking because of its powerful natural spring, convenient river access and central location near Lebanon. See https://mostateparks.com/park/bennett-spring-state-park.

Father and Son at Meramec Spring Park. Copyright Meramec Spring Park.

The Meramec is well known for rainbow trout, yet the river also has healthy populations of large- and smallmouth bass, perch, and catfish. On Facebook you’ll find the Lower Meramec Bass Club and Upper Meramec Bass Club. Based in Arnold, the Lower Meramec Bass Club hosts a tournament every Tuesday night, water depth permitting.

Trey Harpel has fished the lower Meramec for 15 years by launching his boat from Arnold’s Flamm City Park. He is a consultant for the Omega Custom Tackle company of Festus. ( https://omegacustomtackle.com/ ). “These days I go for bass at least once or twice a week, depending on how high the water is,” he says.  “I have the best luck fishing where small creeks enter the river. The Meramec also has white bass, a hybrid fish that can be big.” Harpel’s own fishing reel service and repair business serves professional fishermen and sportsmen.

Clean Up

Good times on the Meramec River come at a price: Garbage, water pollution, junk, and damaged habitats. The not-for-profit Nature Conservancy and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources are extremely concerned about the Meramec River’s health and welfare now and in the future.

Their studies show that the Meramec has been historically threatened by wastewater discharges, livestock mismanagement, mining slag runoff, stream bank erosion, urban and suburban development, sediment buildup, garbage, and pollution resulting in poor water quality and spoiled wildlife habitats.  (https://www.nature.org/en-us/get-involved/how-to-help/places-we-protect/the-meramec-river)

The Nature Conservancy-Missouri Chapter worked with 29 different ecological groups to produce a Meramec River Conservation Action Plan as a blueprint for concerned organizations to use as a guide to help resolve the situation. https://www.nature.org/content/dam/tnc/nature/en/documents/meramec-river-conservation-action-plan.pdf. Projects such as the Growing a Healthy Meramec Project are having positive conservation impacts.

Brian Waldrop, Missouri Stream Team.

If you talk with Brian Waldrop, you may think he eats, sleeps and dreams about saving the Meramec River from pollution while preserving its natural beauty. You wouldn’t be far wrong because, Waldrop says, “It’s a way of life.”

Waldrop is an Arnold native who oversees eleven counties and the city of St. Louis as the St. Louis and Southeast Regional Stream Team Assistant for the Missouri Department of Conservation. “If we see a Clean Stream problem, we go there to work with local ‘clean streamers’ to manage river clean-ups, conduct water quality monitoring, and manage other initiatives,” he says

To see Waldrop and other ‘Clean Steamers’ salvaging a 500-pound metal buoy at Cora Island near the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers on January 16, 2022, click here https://www.facebook.com/arnoldstreamteam211. This video is an example of what Arnold Stream Team 211 volunteers set out to accomplish almost every month.

One of thousands on junked tires pulled from Meramec River. Copyright Arnold Stream Team 211.

“The Stream Team is a group of volunteers dedicated to cleaning up the Meramec River and its tributaries, and anywhere else we’re needed!” says Waldrop. He was hired by Missouri’s Department of Conservation in 1993 to help organize Arnold Stream Team 211 after floods in the 1990s left tons of garbage, junk, trashed mobile homes, broken road signs, thousands of old tires and other rubbish in the Meramec River Basin.

Saturday, March 5, 2022, is the Stream Team’s Annual Wintertime Cleanup, a day of hard work, volunteer achievement and fellowship. To help, sign in that day at 8:00 am at Arnold City Park for a cleaning assignment, t-shirt, gloves, and garbage bags. Breakfast and lunch will be provided. When Waltrop says “We’re having a cleanup” he means that volunteers, in one day, may salvage 500 old tires, 150 rusty barrels, a few sunken old boats, and tons of junk.

“At river cleanups, you’ll see Arnold Stream Team 211 with our boats, kayaks, canoes, wrenches, saws and pulleys to capture as much rubbish as we can,” he says. “Almost any weekend, you’ll find volunteers on the Meramec, chipping away at the watershed’s massive amount of trash.”

Jo Schaper observes, “The Meramec is considered a recreational river all the way to its confluence with the Mississippi, and though it is unlikely the lower Meramec will ever return to its pristine beauty, we can still strive to preserve, restore, and cherish what we have.”

Article by Jeff Dunlap for the City of Arnold

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2022-03-02T08:57:44-06:00March 2nd, 2022|Arnold History News|
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Most Common Property Maintenance Code Violations

The City performs a comprehensive property maintenance inspection of exterior property, the premises, the plumbing, mechanical and electrical systems, fire and life safety aspects, fundamental light, ventilation and occupant needs, and general sanitation.

The most common deficiencies identified during the Property Maintenance Inspections include:

  1. SMOKE DETECTORS: Smoke detectors are required on every level of the home, within 10 ft. of sleeping areas and inside each sleeping area. All detectors must operate when under a test. Some homes, based on age, may have “interconnected” detectors. These detectors are connected together (hard-wired) and will sound an alarm throughout when activated. Older homes may not have this wiring. If the home is equipped with interconnected detectors, they must function properly. If they do not initiate an alarm throughout when the test button is pushed, consult a qualified electrician.
  2. CARBON MONOXIDE DETECTORS: Carbon Monoxide detectors are required within 10 ft. of all sleeping areas if the home has any type of fossil fuel burning appliance or an attached garage. The units can be battery operated, plug-in type or combination smoke/carbon type. There is no height requirement for mounting purposes; consult the manufacturer’s specifications. The detector will have a test button, which is readily accessible that will be used to test the device to ensure proper operation.
  3. FIRE SEPARATION: A solid wood door (i.e. no hollow core, 6-panel, or glass-paned doors) between an attached garage and a living area. There shall be no missing or damaged dry wall between an attached garage and living area.
  4. INOPERABLE/MISSING GFCI OUTLET: Ground Fault Circuit Interrupters or “GFCI outlets” are required in unfinished basements, kitchens, garages, exterior areas of the homes, bathrooms, protecting Jacuzzi tubs and pools, and within 6 ft. of the leading edge of a sink.
  5. GFCI PROTECTION AT SWIMMING POOLS/HOT TUBS: All 15 and 20 amp, 120/240 volt pool pump motors must have GFCI protection. Underwater luminaires must also have GFCI protection if operating at more than the low voltage contact limit.
  6. WIRE COVERAGE/PROTECTION OF WIRES: 120/240 volt wiring located in the “zone” from the spot on the floor that you are standing on to 7 ft. in height must be protected by covering with at least ½” thick drywall. These include wires in garages, basements and other typically unfinished areas.
  7. ELECTRIC SERVICE DROPS: The lowest point on any feeder line that runs from the main power lines to a structure shall be at least 10 ft. above the surface below it.
  8. HEATING UNITS AND WATER HEATERS: Vent pipes must be free of deterioration, blockages or separation of connections. Each connection must have three fasteners (generally self-tapping sheet metal screws). Evidence of decay or rusting may indicate improper draft. Vent pipes shall not be too close to combustibles. There must be sufficient combustion air in furnace room (e.g. 50 cubic feet of room volume required per 1000 BTUH of input to all fuel-burning appliances). Water heater relief valves shall not be mounted too far from the tank, drain tubes must be provided, and such tubes must not be reduced in diameter, too short, too long or have its discharge end threaded.
  9. WINDOWS/SCREENS: Windows must be in good repair and be weather tight. Glazing must be free from cracks and holes. Windows must be easily openable and capable of holding in any raised position without assistance. Every door, window, and other outside opening used for ventilation of habitable rooms, kitchens or food storage areas must have tightly fitting insect screens. Screens may not have tears or holes large enough to permit entry of insects.
  10. FUSE/CIRCUIT BREAKER PANEL: There may not be any unused openings in the panel. There shall not be any unlabeled circuits. Except for circuits dedicated to appliances requiring higher amps, no circuits may rate more than 20 amps. Panels must have a 30-inch minimum working space in front and a width of not less than the width of the panel from the panel to 36 inches from the panel. There shall not be more than one wire per terminal (i.e. no “double-lugging”). There shall be no openings in the electrical service panel cover, which would allow accidental contact with live electric terminals.
  11. EXTERIOR/FOUNDATION/STRUCTURAL/UNSAFE CONDITIONS: Maintenance of the exterior of the home and its surrounding area is required. This includes removal/repair of rotten structural wood members, foundation failure, any structural issues, as well as broken guardrails, steps, or walkways that create a hazard or are unusable. Exterior components such as, but not limited to roofing, siding, all other protective treatments, decks, awnings, signs, rain gutters, chimneys, fences, and accessory structures shall be installed as designed and in working order. Exterior property and premises must be clean, safe and in a sanitary condition. This includes maintaining the premises and structures to prevent the accumulation of stagnant water, rodent infestations, etc.
  12. MISSING HANDRAILS/RAILINGS: Handrails are required along exterior or interior stairs with more than four risers or railings along porch landings 30 inches or more above grade.
  13. MISSING/INCORRECT PLACEMENT OR TYPE OF STREET NUMBERS: In order for emergency responders to find a specific location quickly, street address numbers must be digits and not words (i.e. “1933” not “nineteen thirty-three”). They must be located on the dwelling, fastened with screws or nails (no stick on numbers), and be a contrasting color to their background (i.e. dark numerals on light siding or light numerals on dark siding or brick). Street numbers shall not be brass, gold, silver, bare aluminum, or copper.
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2019-04-23T11:22:51-05:00April 23rd, 2019|
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Jeffco Subcontracting, Inc.

Jeffco Subcontracting, Inc.

A Special Place to Earn a Paycheck

Some anglers may envy the task that Chris Ingram is handling this week. He is assembling a new fishing lure called the Genesis Ti, a product from Omega Custom Tackle Company of St. Louis that is popular among professional and amateur fishermen.

Chris Ingram at JSIYet Chris has no time for fishing today. He is busy working at JSI, also known as Jeffco Subcontracting, Inc., a sheltered workshop at 2065 Pomme Road in Arnold.

Chris is developmentally disabled. He spends about 30 hours every week assembling and packaging different types of products for JSI customers in metro St. Louis. “It’s a good job,” he says with a smile.

About 110 JSI employees who are developmentally disabled work there. Every employee earns a paycheck, receives Social Security benefits, and makes a positive difference.

Dozens of companies, large and small, rely on JSI employees for production assistance so those companies can be more efficient and competitive – companies like Barnhart Industries, CCP Newco, Luxco, Schlafly Beer, Thiel Tool & Engineering, and more.

How does JSI help them?

On a short-term, seasonal, or a continuing basis, JSI employees provide assembly, packaging, re-packaging, collating, de-collating, product inspection, labeling, re-labeling, and custom work at its 44,000 sq ft facility. JSI saves customers money by eliminating their need to buy assembly equipment, or special equipment for heat-sealing, stretch-wrapping, heat-shrinking, blister packing, or clamshell packaging needs. Its overhead is low compared to that of some other temporary work agencies. And it provides a working life for special people who might not find paychecks elsewhere.

Service Oriented

Russ at JSI for Arnold newsletter

Russ Kuttenkuler is JSI’s Executive Director. He joined the not-for-profit 501(C) 3 organization in January 2015. Earlier, he worked as a unit manager for German chemical company Henkel, as an engineering manager at Sigma Aldrich, and as a site operations leader at Solutia, Inc. He earned a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the University of Missouri – Columbia.

Kuttenkuler left corporate business for JSI because “I wanted to do something in my life more service oriented than what I used to do in previous jobs. In this line of work, JSI makes a positive difference for our employees and for our customers every day.”

JSI was in trouble when Kuttenkuler joined the enterprise in 2015.  Several customers had pulled their business, and another announced it was moving product packaging and assembly operations from JSI to a facility in Mexico.

“When I got here JSI really did not have a sales, marketing, or much of a customer service function,” Kuttenkuler says, “and some customers were not happy with JSI services at the time.”  In July 2017 he hired Kelly Baker as full time Sales & Business Development Manager.

JSI KELLY BAKERBaker earned a B.S.B.A. degree from the University of Missouri – St. Louis. She worked as a sales representative for Capital Steel, Inc. for nearly five years before joining JSI. In addition to her JSI role, she is a Certified RYT-200 Yoga instructor in her spare time. “I love to help people,” she says. “Working with JSI is a lot more helpful to people than selling steel.”

At JSI, she is responsible for increasing the workload to provide continuing employment for employees. “Customer work that we attract offers our employees a sense of security and accomplishment, and a degree of financial independence. It also motivates our people. The things we do here and the people we benefit are gratifying in many ways.”

In the late 1960s, the State of Missouri passed legislation referred to as “Chapter 205.968 through 205.972 of the Revised Missouri Statutes.” This permitted counties to establish a mill tax for the purpose of developing and expanding sheltered workshops, residential and support services for their citizens with developmental disabilities.

In 1978 Jefferson County voters established the Jefferson County Commission for the Handicapped through the passage of “Proposition S – The Special Ones.” That year, Jefferson County Commissioners appointed the first handicapped facilities board consisting of nine members.

Essentially, JSI was founded in 1979 by a group of local parents whose adult children were developmentally disabled but could not find meaningful paying jobs. The local parents’ group and others in Missouri had advocated with legislators and business leaders to help establish the Jefferson County Commission for the Handicapped and to pass Proposition S.

JSI’s local umbrella organization is Developmental Disability Advocates, a Jefferson County governmental entity that administers county property tax dollars for services that benefit individuals with developmental disabilities. It provides resources to create opportunities.

In Missouri today, approximately 6,300 people with developmental disabilities earn money working at 90 sheltered workshops. The state’s system is known as the Extended Employment Sheltered Workshop Program.  It is not connected to Medicaid and it is funded by state, local, and business activities. Workshop employees are paid based on their ability to perform.  If an employee produces 50% of what a non-disabled person produces, they’re paid 50% of what that person makes. JSI employees who are developmentally disabled can earn wages of up to $10.34 per hour, depending on their abilities, Kuttenkuler says.

Good News

JSI LOGOKuttenkuler, who is a member of The Missouri Association of Sheltered Workshop Managers advocacy organization, recently announced some very good news. In October of this year, JSI achieved record-breaking operational results that were 10% higher than the organization’s previous record-breaking month. He credits JSI’s entire organization with achieving that milestone, including all of the facility’s employees and supervisors/managers Paula Aleto, Ken Curfman, David Schumer, Christie Schumer, Gena Dunn, Susan Wilds, and Sandy Suschank.

“We offer a big shout out and thanks from deep in our hearts to every one of our customer companies, without whom we could not achieve our mission and goals,” Kuttenkuler asserts.

Kuttenkuler and Baker are proud that JSI has been able to sustain employment for its workers so that the employees can have a place to go every day, maintain self esteem, and earn a paycheck.

Kuttenkuler says that the management skills he transferred from corporate business to JSI are not as different as some people might think. “The business skills are very similar,” he explains. “Like a corporation, JSI is a business – we make stuff, we sell stuff, we negotiate prices, and we generate income.”

“Managing employees who have developmental disabilities is not all that different from managing employees who do not have them. No matter who they are, employees everywhere are human beings and they deal with similar issues.”

For company testimonials about JSI employees’ commitment to their work and delivering high-quality results for customers, scroll through the JSI website.

“By working here, JSI employees gain internal motivation,” Baker asserts. “They feel accomplished as individuals and as part of a work-life community. Many have worked here for more than 20 years. Check us out. If your company has some work that we can do for you, let us know!” Call 636-296-6211. 

Story by Jeff Dunlap for the City of Arnold

2018-12-26T11:00:28-06:00December 26th, 2018|Executive Excellence|
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Stormwater

Stormwater is water from precipitation that flows across the ground and pavement when it rains or when snow and ice melt. The water seeps into the ground or drains into what we call stormwater sewers. These are the drains you see at the street corners or at low points on the sides of your streets. Collectively, the draining water is called stormwater runoff and is a concern to us in commercial and industrial sites as well as in your neighborhood because of the pollutants it carries.

The City of Arnold’s mission is:

  • to operate a drainage system that provides safe, dependable surface drainage in each neighborhood that can be maintained easily and at a reasonable cost;
  • to have a proactive planning process that will ensure that new development does not have a negative impact on existing neighborhoods; and
  • to improve the environment by improving the quality of stormwater runoff by remaining in compliance with Environmental Protection Agency Regulations.

The City of Arnold, Missouri, Stormwater Division, will be submitting a permit application to the Missouri Department of Natural Resources to renew its Small Municipal Storm Sewer System (MS4) Operating Permit MO-R040043. Review the links below:

City of Arnold Notification for the MS4 Permit Renewal for the 2021-2026 Permit Term

02-18-2021 Arnold MS4 Permit Application and Planned Compliance Best Management Practices

Stormwater Public Works

City of Arnold Stormwater / Storm Sewers Division
2900 Arnold Tenbrook Road, Arnold, MO 63010
7:00 am – 3:30 pm, Mon-Fri
636-282-2386

Please email us your name and contact information if you are interested in serving on our Citizens Advisory Board to the City Council regarding stormwater matters.

If you have any issues, concerns, or comments about the City of Arnold stormwater sewers, use our MyGov Request Portal.

Learn About Stormwater

Learn more about effective management of stormwater on your property!

We also welcome public comments regarding the 2017 Storm Water Master Plan. Please Contact Us to submit your comments.

2023-02-06T13:18:44-06:00September 8th, 2015|
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Archery Park

Jim Edwards Archery Park is the City of Arnold’s newest park!

Jim Edwards Archery Park in the City of Arnold is an ADA accessible park located on Telegraph Road just North of Bayshore Subdivision at 1136 Telegraph Road.

This beautiful, state-of-the-art archery park is named for Jim Edwards, a former Ward 2 Arnold City Council Member from 1997-2007 and also from 2010-2011. Jim owned his own business in the City of Arnold for many years, and we’re pleased to honor his memory with the naming of our newest park.

Archery Park is open to the public during regular park hours – 1/2 hour before Sunrise to 1/2 hour after sunset. It is also closed every Tuesday from Sunrise to 12:00 noon for maintenance as well as by official posting on the park’s Facebook page.

The City of Arnold thanks the Missouri Department of Conservation, The Arnold Jaycees, and the National Wild Turkey Federation for their generous funding and support, which made the Jim Edwards Archery Park possible. 

Archery Park is for enthusiasts of the sport of archery. This park has year-round targets for bow use only and is the only park in Arnold where archery is permissible.

The City will provide assistance to designated Archery Clubs to allow citizens the opportunity to participate in educational, recreational, and competitive archery activities.

General Archery Safety Rules

  • Possession of alcoholic beverages is prohibited on the range or adjoining parking lot.
  • Inspect equipment for damage prior to shooting.
  • Check arrows for cracks, dents, loose vanes, bent, broken nocks, or any condition that may cause the arrow to fly erratically or to rupture when released. Serious injury can be avoided by taking the time to inspect arrows for damage.
  • Check bows for frayed strings, loose pulleys, warped limbs, cracks or other damage that may result in breakage when at full draw.
  • Shoot only those arrows that have been matched to your draw length and have spines matched to the bow’s draw weight.
  • Never dry fire a bow. The resistance of an arrow is needed to prevent damage to the bow limbs.
  • Never draw a bow that was set up for someone else. Draw lengths and weights vary, and the wrong combination can cause injury.
  • Never intentionally overdraw a bow.
  • Always check your surroundings, including down range, before drawing the bow to shoot.
  • Our archery targets are designed for field or target points only.
  • All children must be supervised by a responsible adult.
  • Always shoot at the target designated for your firing position. Shooting across lanes can result in arrows traveling outside of the predetermined safety fan.
  • All firearms are prohibited.
Archery Park Arnold MO

Jim Edwards Archery Park
1136 Telegraph Road
Arnold, Missouri 63010
636-282-6680

Static Archery Range Rules

  • Shoot from the designated concrete shooting position. Shooting from in front of or behind the provided shooting line is not permitted. Never sky-draw or shoot arrows upward into the air.
  • Shoot only at the target designated for your shooting position. Shooting across lanes can result in arrows traveling outside of the predetermined safety fan.
  • Always check your surroundings, including down range, before necking an arrow.
  • All archers must coordinate their activity. When finished shooting, hang bows on bow rack and wait until all archers are finished shooting before going down range to retrieve your arrows. All shooters must retrieve their arrows at the same time.
  • Adults must accompany participants 15 years old and under.
  • Pets are not allowed in archery areas.
  • Broadheads and firearms are prohibited. Only bullet points and field points may be used.
  • Crossbows are allowed with bolts.
  • No more than six arrowsbolts (One End) will be shot at each relay. Relay time will not exceed 10 minutes.
  • Pick up litter and place in trash barrel upon completion of shooting.
  • Possession of alcoholic beverages is prohibited on the range and adjoining parking lot.

Any infractions of the above rules will result in the immediate loss of range privileges. To report a violation, contact the City of Arnold by calling 636-282-2380, ext 1407.

For emergencies, always call 9-1-1.

2024-06-19T11:05:33-05:00September 7th, 2015|
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