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Mayor Makes Another Appeal To Gov. Jay Nixon To Retain Rotary Club’s License Office
Mayor Thomas P. Schneider went to the office of Gov. Jay Nixon on Tuesday, Feb. 24 to make another personal plea urging Governor Nixon to intervene on behalf of the Rotary Club of Florissant to keep its state license office. In his appeal, Mayor Schneider noted that the state’s contract with the Florissant Rotary Club is the perfect public/non-profit partnership, with all of the profits going to help the less fortunate.
The not-for-profit Rotary Club of Florissant, which has run the state’s license office in Florissant since 1994, has donated more than $2.3 million to charities in the last 20 years from its profits in running the license office. The Florissant office regularly has been among the top five best-run of the 172 license offices in Missouri.
State Sen. Gina Walsh (D) and the Florissant Rotary Club are appealing the Missouri Department of Revenue’s recent decision to award the contract for the state’s license office in Florissant to ACM, LLC, a for-profit business located in St. Charles County. During the appeal process the Rotary Club of Florissant is continuing to run the Florissant license office.
Mayor Schneider pointed out that Florissant Rotary gives its profits to organizations such as Valley Industries Sheltered Workshop for developmentally challenged adults, Marygrove Home for abused and unwanted children and The Emergency Assistance Ministry (TEAM) food pantry to feed the hungry.
“There is no possible way,” said Mayor Schneider, “that the State of Missouri could direct the small increase in income it would receive back into Missouri society and achieve even a fraction of the benefits now delivered by the Florissant Rotary Club.”
