SB 627 - This act modifies provisions relating to the election of the members of the Board of Education for the city of St. Louis. This act describes the length of time board members in office on August 28, 2020, shall hold office, and repeals provisions of current law that determine when board members shall be elected.
Under this act, beginning with the April 2021 municipal election, and at each succeeding election to fill a vacancy for an expiring term of office, members of the Board of Education for the city of St. Louis shall be elected from the seven subdistricts as set forth in the act. Such members shall assume the duties of their office at the first regular meeting of the Board of Education after their election, and shall hold office for three years, and until their successors are elected and qualified.
Each of the seven subdistricts shall be established by the Board of Election Commissioners of the City of St. Louis, rather than by the State Board of Education, to be compact, contiguous, and as nearly as equal in population as practicable. No subdistrict shall cross ward lines or be comprised of parts of two or more wards but shall be composed of the whole of two or more wards. Establishment of the initial subdistricts is set forth in the act. In the event the wards are no longer contiguous after the Board of Aldermen is reapportioned after each decennial census, or at any other time, then the subdistricts shall be revised by the Board of Election Commissioners within 60 days after the Board of Aldermen has been reapportioned.
This act sets forth the municipal election schedule for each subdistrict.
JOSIE BUTLER