Meeting of a few people who gathered signatures for the audit of the City of St. Louis with a representative of the Missouri State Auditor's office.

"AN OVERVIEW OF LEAD POISONING"

Though we hoped for 10,500 signatures for the petition to audit the City of St. Louis, we have over 11,000! We need to "clean them up," meaning looking at each signature to make sure it was done correctly and adding info if necessary. We will also need to make a copy of everything before turning it in next week to the State Auditor.

We will be getting together tomorrow morning:

9:00 a.m., Friday July 20
St. Louis Bread Company [Grand & Arsenal]

Please come tomorrow morning for an hour or two or three.

Don Fitz, 314-727-8554

7 am, Thursday, June 7, 2007
WGNU, 920 AM
Lizz Brown Show/Wake Up Call

Lizz Brown will talk with Don Fitz about financial information for childhood
lead poisoning prevention that the City of St. Louis is and is not releasing.
Find out about the current status of efforts for a full financial audit of
the City.

Join us at a press conference to announce that Petitioners Near Goal for Audit of St. Louis City

3:00 pm, Friday, May 11, 2007
St. Louis City Hall, Tucker entrance

Petitioners now have over 7500 signatures calling for an audit of the City of St. Louis. Missouri statutes indicate that the number of signatures must equal 5% of those who voted in the most recent race for governor. That would be 7200 signatures. Spokesperson Willie Marshall says that Greens will continue to collect signatures because challenged petitions need more than the required number.

The Gateway Greens will have a notary public @ CAMP to sign petitions to audit the City of St. Louis. Drop on by on your way to Cinco de Mayo down the street!

Also, Shangri-La Diner will be donating dinner to those who get over 50 signatures notarized during the Cinco de Mayo (Fifth of May) festival this Saturday. Even if you don't get 50 signatures, join us at Shangri-La Diner at 6 pm at 2201 Cherokee (at Missouri). The petition is for an audit of the City of St. Louis to find out where the Slay([search]) administration is spending lead poisoning prevention money.

From St. Louis American
http://stlamerican.com/articles/2007/04/12/news/community_news/comm02.txt
4/12/07

Lead clean-up hampered by grant problems

By Don Fitz For the St. Louis American
Thursday, April 12, 2007 2:03 PM CDT

from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/editorialcommentary/story/EC924714EEE3B886862572BD00001DD7?OpenDocument
04/15/2007

City's lead abatement plan is focusing on quantity instead of need

The editorial "Excuses, excuses, excuses" (April 10) about lead abatement efforts pointed out that the City of St. Louis may lose millions in federal grant money because of its sluggish pace in removing lead from homes. Since the city now needs to abate as many housing units as it can as rapidly as it can, it may end up ignoring homes that are most in need of treatment.

April 6, 2007. St. Louis, Missouri. In an effort to avoid losing millions of dollars in lead poisoning grant money, the City of St. Louis may end up ignoring homes that are most in need of lead remediation. The City received $7 million in two 2004 grants from Housing and Urban Development (HUD). But a series of letters from HUD reveals a sharp decline in meeting targeted dates for home clean-ups:

This Green Time episode includes footage of School Board member Donna Jones, Aldermanic President James Schrewsbury and first place essay winner Precious Walters. They spoke at the "Get the Lead Out" program which the Gateway Green Alliance sponsored at Roosevelt High School in November 2006. Host Barbara Chicherio and Representative Jeanette Mott Oxford discuss the need for declaration of a lead emergency and how poverty and regressive taxation in Missouri increase the vulnerability of children most at risk for lead poisoing. This Green Time (No. 258) is produced by the Gateway Greens in conjunction with KDHX. Call 314-727-8554 or contact fitzdon@aol.com for information.