ST. LOUIS — Aldermanic President Megan Green is asking residents to submit their own ideas for new city policies.

And they’re responding, if sometimes tongue-in-cheek.

Submissions to a new online portal launched earlier this month include calls for a data center ban , better sidewalks — and for the Board of Aldermen to replace the opening prayer at its meetings with a rendition of Thin Lizzy’s 1976 hit “ The Boys Are Back in Town .”

“I was going to propose safer roads,” one user commented on the pitch, “but this is much better.”

The portal, dubbed “Speak Up, St. Louis,” is Green’s latest effort to make the board more accessible. Last year, Green’s office used the same software to gather public input on how to spend the city’s $250 million share of the Rams relocation settlement

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