Board Bill

This Board Bill authorizes the Board of Elections to accept the Center for Tech and Civic Life (the "CTCL") Covid-19 Response Grant of $1,034,200.00 to provide financial assistance to local election officials ("LEOs") for expenses incurred between June 15, 2020 and December 31, 2020, associated with the safe administration of election responsibilities, including safe election day administration; poll worker recruitment, training and safety efforts; voter education and outreach for safe voting policies and procedures; and expanding and maintaining early in-person voting sites and expedited and improved vote-by-mail ballot processing. The grant limits reimbursement to expenses incurred between June 15 and December 31, 2020, in accordance with an assessment called "Safe Voting Plan" prepared by the STL BEC. The grant precludes supplanting previously appropriated funds to BEC or the reduction in budgeted funds to the BEC during the term of this grant unless CTCL grant funds are to be returned.

Legislative History

Session:	2020-2021
Sponsor:	Jack Coatar
Co-Sponsors:	Sharon Tyus Lisa Middlebrook Brandon Bosley Dwinderlin Evans Tammika Hubbard Christine Ingrassia Annie Rice Dan Guenther Joseph Vollmer Sarah Martin Vicky Grass Beth Murphy Carol Howard Megan E. Green Tom Oldenburg Joseph D Roddy Jesse Todd Marlene E Davis Cara Spencer John Collins-Muhammad Jeffrey L Boyd Joseph Vaccaro Bret Narayan Shane Cohn Shameem C Hubbard Pam Boyd Heather Navarro Lewis E Reed
Committee:	Coronavirus Special
Actions:	10/23/2020 Perfection 10/16/2020 Second Reading 10/16/2020 Perfection 10/02/2020 First Reading