The three-way race for two seats on the Mehlville Board of Education saw the most spending of any local school board or aldermanic contest in Tuesday’s election, according to campaign-finance reports.

In that race, challenger Lori Trakas raised more than her incumbent opponents, board President Venki Palamand and board Secretary Larry Felton.

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Many candidates for local office do not file reports with the Missouri Ethics Commission since candidates only have to file financial disclosure reports if their committees received more than $500 in contributions, spent more than $500 on the campaign or have a contributor, aside from the candidate, who donated more than $325.

In Sunset Hills, incumbent Ward 1 Alderman Dee Baebler reported her campaign took in $1,100 in donations, all from fellow Sunset Hills officials. Mayor Bill Nolan donated $300 to Baebler, and her fellow Ward 1 Alderman, Richard Gau, donated $800 from his Gau for Alderman committee.

Baebler spent $749 of the donations, including $656 for yard signs and door hangers from MADCO Printing.

Baebler’s opponent, former Ward 1 Alderman Frank Hardy, received $300 in small donations, to add to the $595 his campaign already had on hand. Aside from voter lists, Hardy’s only expense was $377 for door hangers from Mark’s Quick Printing.

In Crestwood, Mike Tsichlis, Timothy Anderson, Richard Rutledge and Cindy Minor are running for the Ward 4 aldermanic seat, but only Tsichlis filed a report.

He received $1,915 and spent $1,528 in the election as of his March 25 filing. Most of the funds, $1,395, are from Tsichlis himself. His biggest expense was $178 for an ad in the Call.

One of Tsichlis’ opponents, Cindy Minor, did not file an eight-day report, but the political action committee Citizens for Good Government, which has primarily supported Mike Klund’s race for the Mehlville Fire Protection District board, listed a $325 contribution to Minor’s campaign on one of its disclosure reports.

In Ward 3 in Crestwood, where candidates Bill Boston and Grant Mabie are seeking a seat on the Board of Aldermen, only Mabie filed an eight-day campaign report. He loaned his campaign $601.75 and received $100 donations from three donors: Christine Duenke of Wildwood, his campaign treasurer Robert Weng of Webster Groves and Kris Mabie of Arnold.

Other than website and bank account fees, Mabie’s only expense was $580 on door hangers from FedEx Crestwood.

In the election for the Lindbergh Board of Education, in which four candidates are seeking two seats, only Cindy McDaniel filed an eight-day campaign finance report.

McDaniel and Adam McBride are challenging incumbents Kara Gotsch and Vic Lenz for their seats.

McDaniel reported $2,412 in donations, including $1,500 she loaned her committee. She also gave her committee $437 in in-kind contributions.

McDaniel spent $1,415 of her campaign funds on direct-mail efforts, through St. Louis Presort.

She also purchased ads in print publications: $360 to coupon magazine Ad Pages, $150 to the Current/Fenton News Magazine and $90 to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

In Mehlville, Trakas reported $2,425 in contributions and loans to her campaign.

Trakas and her husband gave $500 to her campaign, as did Antonio Visnovske of St. Louis.

The Tesson Ferry Township Republican Club gave Trakas $400. Brian and Melinda Lamping of Fenton gave her $275, and Penny and Andrew Hof of St. Louis gave her $250. Trakas loaned her own campaign an additional $150, and she received $200 in donations less than $100.

Trakas spent $1,110 on yard signs from Victory Enterprises of Davenport, Iowa, and $585 on door hangers from Complete Color Print in House Springs.

Palamand reported $1,015 in new donations, including $200 from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1, $100 each from the Cement Masons, Margaret Pucci and Joe Zelle, former Democratic candidate for District 95 state representative, and $50 from Glazers Local 516. Palamand had $900 in contributions left from a previous reporting period this election, as part of $4,625 cash on hand.

He ended the reporting period with $2,606 on hand.

Palamand spent his funds primarily on newspaper ads and campaign signs, including $1,607 for ads in the Call, $1,298 to O.R. Pechman Inc. for yard signs and $129 to Creative Litho for business cards.

Felton reported raising $1,524, including $824 in monetary contributions of $100 or less. He also loaned his campaign $600.

In his only expense aside from a bank account, he paid MADCO Printing $785 for yard signs.