Candidate filing is officially open for the Subdistrict 2 seat on the Special School District (SSD) of St. Louis County’s Board of Education. The Subdistrict 2 seat represents the Affton, Bayless, Hancock Place and Mehlville school districts. Filing opened April 1 and will close on April 30.
Applicants must be a citizen of the United States, have resided in Missouri for at least one year, be at least 24 years old, be a registered voter of the district and be a resident of the sub-district in which the application is filed. Additional candidate qualifications can be found here.
For those seeking to file, applications will be distributed at the SSD Central Office — located at 12110 Clayton Road in Town and Country — between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. through April 30. Due to regulations, information packets and applications must be picked up and returned to the SSD Central Office by the candidate; they may not be mailed. Individuals returning completed applications must show proof of identification.
Filing will not occur on days when the district’s offices are closed.
SSD’s Governing Council is responsible for electing directors. The Governing Council is made up of 22 representatives from each of St. Louis County’s public school boards.
The council attempted to elect a new director for Subdistrict 2 at its March 2 meeting, but it could not due to lack of a quorum; they did not have the majority of the Governing Council — which requires majority councilmembers and a majority of the represented county population — present for the vote. The candidates up for election on March 2 were incumbent Dan Cuneo and Bob McKitrick.
Cuneo and McKitrick will have to refile for candidacy. Other candidates who did not run for the March election will be able to file, so long as they live within Subdistrict 2 and meet all other qualifications. The election will take place at the Governing Council’s June 1 meeting.
