St Louis Board of Aldermen President Lewis Reed joined Marc Cox for the BottomLine segment that covered the city's plan to send some stimulus money directly to residents.
Reed says the Board made some changes to Mayor Tishaura Jones' original plan which would have sent $500 to ten-thousand people.
"What we did is we tightened that up, the Mayor really had no, no structure to it," says Reed. "Multiple people within the same household could have gotten $500. If you were 19 or 20 years old and had access to the internet, you could go online and fill out applications for you and all of your friends, and all of you would have $500."
Reed pointed out the restrictions added, including funds only going to heads of households and unemployed, plus the funds would be dispersed through the Department of Human Services instead of the City Treasurer's office.
"We also put language in the bill that any funds that go out to anyone can't bear the likeness of the name of any elected official," says Reed, so no onw can used it for, "self promotion."
