Council Members Defend Allocation for 'Super Bowl of Conventions'
A University City resident's letter to the editor drew fire from St. Louis County Council Chairman Steve Stenger.
Members of the St. Louis County Council struck back Tuesday in Clayton at criticism of county investment in a gathering aimed at drawing conventions to the St. Louis area. In June, the council approved $250,000 for a convention for the American Society of Association Executives. Dubbed the “Super Bowl of conventions,” the gathering is aimed at attracting major conferences to the St. Louis area. The event, however, drew criticism from Tom Sullivan, a University City resident who wrote a letter to the Call Newspaper about the council's allocation. “By anyone's standards, $750,000 is an exorbitant amount of money for a party—especially when it is completely funded with public money,” Sullivan wrote in his letter. Sullivan also wrote that “…
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