Community Benefits Agreement
On October 10, 2013, MSD entered into a Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) with several Signatories, in a collaborate effort to maximize the economic and educational benefits derived from MSD’s Capital Improvement Replacement Program (CIRP) to the St. Louis City and County communities.
The purpose of this CBA is to use the CIRP to generate job training and employment opportunities targeted to community residents in need of these resources; generate business opportunities for St. Louis area Minority-Owned and Women-Owned businesses; and generate internships and other educationally related opportunities for community school children. MSD also believes that an important goal of the CBA is to facilitate the return of unemployed or underemployed minority and female workers as journeymen and apprentices in sewer-related occupations on its projects.
Please access the full CBA and addendums using the link at the top of the page. If you are a community organization interested in joining the Signatories listed below, please send a letter to our CEO at the following address:
Bret A. Berthold, PE
Executive Director & CEO
Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District (MSD)
2350 Market Street
St. Louis, MO 63103-2555
In your letter, please include the following information about your organization: Your mission, the geographic scope of your activities, the organization’s representative for the CBA and their contact information (mailing address, phone number, email, website).
Current CBA Signatories
- Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District (MSD)
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
- Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU)
- Metropolitan Congregations United (MCU)
- Construction Prep Center
- National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)
- MOKAN St. Louis Construction Contractors Assistance Center
- St. Louis Metropolitan Clergy Coalition (MCC)
- Metro St. Louis Coalition for Inclusion and Equity (M-SLICE)
- Universal African Peoples Organization (UAPO)
- Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
- St. Louis County Branch of the NAACP
Recorded CBA Meetings
Community Benefits Agreement Virtual Public Meeting | April 16, 2021