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Group Receives $385,000 to Stem Sewer Rates; Election Day is June 5

Clean Water STL has received roughly $385,000 in monetary support in the last five weeks. The committee wants St. Louis residents to vote Tuesday in favor of Proposition Y, a measure that will affect sewer rates throughout the area.

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Financial support has been pouring in for .

The special election for Proposition Y is Tuesday in South County, as well as , and other St. Louis County municipalities.

Documents filed this week with the Missouri Ethics Commission show that Clean Water STL—the committee formed to back the proposition—received approximately $385,000 in monetary contributions between April 22 and May 24. It received more than $9,000 of in-kind support.

The filings also show approximately $308,000 in expenses for that period, largely on direct mailings.

Among the highlights

  • Nearly $99,000 came from companies or committees based in states other than Missouri. Among them is Englewood, Colorado-based , which has offices in Richmond Heights.
  • A total of $36,000 came from businesses, organizations and committees based in Clayton.
  • Other notable donors are SSM Health Care, which includes , and .
  • The committee spent nearly $90,000 on consulting, including website consulting, during the filing period.
  • It spent nearly $219,000 on direct mailings.

A list of the donors follows:

DONOR CITY AMOUNT Ace Pipe Cleaning Inc. Kansas City $5,000 Anheuser Busch St. Louis (63118) $50,000 BJC Healthcare St. Louis (63110) $10,000 CH2M Hill Englewood, CO
$5,000 Committee for Bond Initiatives St. Louis (63101) $15,000 Committee for Bond Initiatives St. Louis (63101) $15,000 Covidien Sandy, UT $75,000 DDI Media Inc. Overland $4,650 (in-kind) DDI Media Inc. Overland $4,650 (in-kind) Dee Joyce-Hayes (general counsel at Metro) St. Louis (63112) $200 Dierbergs Markets Chesterfield  
$8,791 Drury Development Corporation St. Louis (63141) $15,000 Enterprise Holdings Inc. Political Action Committee Clayton $5,000 Enterprise Holdings Inc. Political Action Committee Clayton $5,000 George Butler Associates  
O'Fallon $100 Gershenson Construction Co. Eureka $5,000 Goodwin Brothers Crystal City $50,000 Hermann Oak Leather Co. St. Louis (63147) $26,529 HDR Engineering Omaha, NE $10,000 John Heimos St. Louis (63128) $750 KAI St. Louis (63102) $2,000 Kohn Shands Elbert Gianoulakis & Giljum Clayton $1,000
Monsanto Creve Coeur $10,000 Regional Business Council Clayton $25,000 Reitz and Jens St. Louis (63132) $1,000 SAK Construction O'Fallon $25,000 Schnucks Markets St. Louis (63146) $19,064 SSM Health Care St. Louis (63141) $5,000 STL Parking Company St. Louis (63101) $1,000 Supervalu Inc. Boise, ID  
$3,285 The Kelley Group St. Louis (63103) $100 Villa Lighting  
St. Louis (63103) $1,000 Woolpert Inc. PAC Dayton, OH $500

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