April
29, 2020
The St. Louis
County Council has decided, on a split vote, to give Executive Director Sam
Page’s administration complete authority to use $173. 5 million in federal
coronavirus relief funds, with no council oversight whatsoever.
I’m not
impugning Page’s character, but, historically, it has never been a good idea to
let one person make all the decisions about taxpayer money. I’m absolutely
astonished that this would happen.
The fact
that that the vote was split along political party lines makes it even more
annoying. Are people on the council so wedded to their party that they would
ignore common sense and evade their fiscal responsibility to the taxpayers?
This, in
my opinion, is almost criminally irresponsible.
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