The St. Louis County Board of Elections is moving out of Sunnen Business Park in Maplewood to the former Northwest Plaza at the end of the year. That was the result of a vote by the county council on Tuesday, reported by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
County Executive Steve Stenger called the 6-1 vote “reflective of a council that saw through the politics that were being played and instead focused on the numbers.”
The lease at Crossings at Northwest lease is 20-year lease. G.T. Cozad, III, representative of the owner of the building in Sunnen Business Park, said in a letter to 40 South News and other media outlets including the Post-Dispatch, and that it was unfair to compare the 20-year lease to the shorter terms in Maplewood, but that he wasn’t given an opportunity to respond.
County Councilman Mark Harder, who cast the only vote against moving the elections commission to St. Ann, suggested that campaign contributions Stenger and Councilman Sam Page received from developers of the project should return the money.
St. Louis County Council gives blessing to controversial lease agreement https://t.co/U1jpgJ15hg pic.twitter.com/bS9FY46YOz
— St. Louis Post-Dispatch (@stltoday) July 13, 2016
This move is all about Sam Page and Stenger and $$$. It’s got nothing to do with serving the citizens on St Louis County. I’m really missing Charlie Dooley these days.
Stenger received contributions from the developer? That’s really all we need to know.