CLAYTON — The St. Louis County Council will consider using $520,000 in NFL Rams settlement money to pay for costs related to the April 8 election.

The council needs to pay for Proposition B, which will ask voters if the council should have the ability to fire county department heads.

Council Chair Rita Heard Days, D-Bel-Nor, proposed using settlement money to cover the costs.

Expenses include paying pollworkers, renting trucks to deliver equipment to polling places, renting polling places, postage and printing, said Rick Stream, Republican director for the county Election Board.

The council meets Tuesday afternoon.

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In 2021, the county received $169.3 million from the $790 million settlement of a lawsuit over the Rams' departure for Los Angeles.

Last year, the council agreed to spend $40 million from the settlement fund to repair roads and sidewalks in unincorporated county subdivisions. The council also approved spending nearly $10 million in settlement money on cybersecurity.

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