JEFFERSON CITY – Representative Shamed Dogan has been appointed to be the Chair of the House Local Government Committee by House Speaker Todd Richardson. The committee is responsible for considering bills and all other matters that affect cities, counties, and other municipalities in Missouri. Dogan will be replacing Rep. Lyndall Fraker, who is now on the House Financial Institutions Committee.
“I want to thank Speaker Richardson for giving me the opportunity to lead this committee and to work directly on the issues that led me to run for office in the first place. I look forward to working with my fellow committee members to make our cities and counties more transparent and accountable in the way they do business,” he said on Thursday morning.
Before elected to the House, Dogan was an Alderman in Ballwin. He was elected in 2015 and has represented House District 98 since. He serves on the House Crime Prevention and Public Safety Committee, House Elementary and Secondary Education Committee, and is the Vice Chair of the House Legislative Oversight Committee.
“One of the priorities of the majority caucus is to ensure that government operates in a transparent and fiscally responsible way that taxpayers can trust. We have done a good job of implementing many of these reforms on the state level and I think it’s important that we enact the same types of reforms with local governments,” he said.
He hopes to rely on his experience as Ballwin’s Alderman to assist him when he chairs the Committee, “My time as an alderman taught me a lot about the challenges that face local governments, and I have worked with my colleagues to address those challenges during my time in the state legislature.”
Local Government was previously chaired by Fraker. Financial Institions was previously chaired by Sen. Sandy Crawford, who resigned her House seat after being elected to the Senate to replace Lt. Gov. Mike Parson in the Senate.
Michael Layer is a reporter for the Missouri Times and the Missouri Times Magazine. He joined the Missouri Times in August 2017 after graduating from Goucher College the previous May. To contact Michael, email michael@themissouritimes.com or follow him on Twitter @_MichaelLayer
