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Issue: 1207 Date: 10/9/2013
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Missouri History Museum gets full funding amount
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In voting for the rates today, the ZMD commissioners put behind them, at least for now, a months-long battle over governance and spending at the History Museum by giving all five member institutions their full allotment of public funds. That's about $10 million for the History Museum.
At a preliminary rate meeting in April, three members of the commission tried to reduce that allocation by $1.5 million. The effort failed, and its leaders did not attempt it today. But not all of them were happy.
Commissioner Gloria Wessels, a frequent History Museum critic, said although the museum has made progress, she had to vote no.
"I just feel like they've wasted a lot of money," she said. "And to do nothing and say well, you𠐔e changed so it𠏋 okay, I think we have a fiduciary responsibility to the taxpayers who are funding this taxing district."
St. Louis circuit attorney Jennifer Joyce and the St. Louis Board of Aldermen are still investigating the History Museum. Wessels said she could have supported the full $10 million allocation if those investigations were complete and had found no wrongdoing. |
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