Wednesday, February 6, 2013
St. Charles County Council will consider the purchase of 260 new machines at the February council meeting.
St. Charles County may spend $810,000 on 260 new electronic voting machines. Election Authority Director Rich Chrismer said some of the current optical scan lasers don't read ballots as they should. "Things are just wearing out," he said. Timing on this issue is key. The county can take advantage of a $129,000 grant, but they must approve the purchase of the new machines by Feb. 14. In 2013, the county could get another nearly $50,000 grant for a total savings of about $180,000. The cost for 260 machines would be $810,000. Chrismer said he has saved the money for seven years to replace the machines by leasing them out to other areas. Last year, County Executive Steve Ehlmann vetoed spending $1.2 million to purchase new equipment …
Monday, September 17, 2012
Councilman Joe Cronin called a second version with exceptions "weak and watered down."
(The following press release was issued by the St. Charles County Council.) The St. Charles County Council, at a special meeting Saturday morning, decided to stand by its original bill calling for a charter amendment in the form of a ballot proposition concerning a countywide ban on smoking in enclosed public places. The Council considered a new bill that would have changed the ballot language to merge the smoking ban with three exceptions: places requiring patrons and employees to be age at least 21 years of age, private clubs, and 20 percent of hotel rooms. Councilman Joe Cronin, the sponsor of both the original and second bill, said the Council did a lot of “soul-searching” and came to the conclusion that passing “something that was …
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
The St. Charles County Council approved the map Monday, which made changes based on Republican and Democratic party chair recommendations.
- GOVERNMENT
- Joe Scott
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
The St. Charles County Council approved changes to the township maps submitted by Election Authority Director Rich Chrismer during the council’s Monday meeting. But some Republicans are not happy about it. “The county council has politicized this by changing the boundaries to favor certain people,” said Chuck McNabb, a political blogger from Wentzville. Council Chair Nancy Matheny, R-District 3, said the map changes are being blown out of proportion. “We made very few changes, to the 5th District and the 7th District,” Matheny said. She said the council members went to the St. Charles County Republican and Democratic political party chairs and asked for their input on the changes. The Democratic chairman, Morton Todd, had one change while …
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Councilman Joe Cronin says the purchase isn't prudent, but the rest of the council members approved new machines.
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- Joe Scott
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
St. Charles County will spend $1.2 million on new voting machines, but one county councilman thinks they would be better off keeping the old machines. The County Council voted 4-1 on Monday to approve the purchase of 260 optical scan machines that read paper ballots, two for each of 121 precincts and 18 emergency backups. Half of the machines are disability-capable. The bill still needs to be signed by County Executive Steve Ehlmann. If he vetoes the bill, it could be overridden by a five-vote council majority. Councilman Terry Hollander had stepped out of the room and was unavailable during Monday's roll call vote. Rich Chrismer, the St. Charles County Election Authority director, said he had budgeted money in the last six years to pay …
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Bid procedures were not followed by Elections Authority employees, necessitating the emergency bids, says St. Charles County Elections Director.
- ELECTIONS
- Joe Scott
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
St. Charles County Council members questioned why two Election Authority bids were submitted as emergency bills weeks before the Feb. 7 presidential primary, but voted 5-1 to approve the bids Thursday morning. A $360,000 bid was for election services, including printing about 275,000 ballots for all 2012 elections, awarded to Henry M. Adkins & Son. The second bid was for $30,250 for 121 personal digital assistants for election officials. Elections Director Rich Chrismer said: “The reason for the emergency session is that procedures were not followed in my office to get the bid information to the county executive and to you all in a timely manner. It wasn’t done. “I take responsibility, but procedures set in place by me that were followed …
Sue
6:38 am on Tuesday, September 25, 2012
We need to get smoke out of our public places. This delay is ridiculous. more ›