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St. Louis City committee recommends two mayoral appointees to Mental Health Board
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The St. Louis City Health and Human Development Committee on Dec. 11 recommended two mayoral appointees to the city's Mental Health Board after brief presentations and questions. The committee accepted Donna Schmidt and recommended Carolyn Jackson; both nominations will be forwarded to the full Board for confirmation.
The St. Louis City Health and Human Development Committee on Dec. 11 recommended two mayoral appointees to the city's Mental Health Board after candidate statements and a short round of questions.
Donna Schmidt, an attorney at Armstrong Teasdale and the board's current chair, told the committee she has served on the Mental Health Board for about 10 years and wishes to continue. Schmidt summarized the board's role in administering property-tax funds for mental-health and children's services, saying the mental-health fund "collect[s] between 2 and $3,000,000 a year" and the children's services fund is "closer to $10,000,000 a year." She described routine work: issuing RFPs on a three-year rotation, helping smaller…
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