St. Louis County still has more than $100 million in Rams settlement money that has not been allocated.

The county received a total of $159 million from the lawsuit against the NFL and Los Angeles Rams owner Stan Kroenke after the team left St. Louis in 2016.

There is no deadline for when the money must be spent, and it is currently sitting in a fund collecting interest.

“In my opinion, there's nothing wrong with having this money set aside in an interest-bearing fund until we take our time to come up with a good, solid plan for how we're going to use it,” District 3 Councilman Dennis Hancock, R-Fenton, said.

Of the money in the fund, $56.2 million has been approved for five projects , including street repair and facility maintenance.

Most of these projects are still in the planni

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