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County executive seeks RFP approach to food‑insecurity plan after farmers balk; council member says executive vetoed earlier bill
Summary
County Executive Sam Page told the council he asked members to allow a countywide RFP and move $4.5 million into the Department of Human Services for a new food‑insecurity project; Councilwoman Gretchen Webb later said the executive vetoed the council's prior food‑insecurity legislation.
County Executive Sam Page told the St. Louis County Council on April 29 that he has asked members to allow the county to use a competitive request‑for‑proposals process to develop a countywide food‑insecurity program and to move funds into the Department of Human Services to support it.
Page said he met with three urban farmers who had withdrawn from an earlier, council‑approved plan; the farmers told him they were uncomfortable with the originally proposed process and preferred a competitive, countywide RFP. Page said he asked the council to authorize use of an…
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