The nine county members and lone state appointee to that board are in place but a St. Louis aldermanic committee has refused to approve nine city appointees of Krewson since mid-October.

Reed, in his remarks Wednesday, also called on St. Louis County to channel to the city some of the county sales tax money it gets from Lambert shops and eateries and other businesses. “I think we need to start there,” Reed said.

He contended that it far exceeds the $6.7 million a year in Lambert revenue that the city is allowed to put into nonairport uses under federal rules.

Asked about that by a reporter after the meeting, Page said he needed to review the details of county tax revenues from the airport.

“There are a lot of things that the city and the county partner on,” he said. “And in general, we don’t keep score. We just work together to solve problems.”

Page also said he’s “willing to consider how we might make the airport better and if Lewis Reed believes that the county helping the city more is part of that question, then I think he can put that on the table.”