R-8 Board member Randy Steele has $1,495 in campaign account

Incumbent Joplin R-8 Board of Education member has $1,495 in his campaign account, according to his 40-day-before-election report filed with the Missouri Ethics Commission.

One thousand of that came from the special interest group, the Joplin Progress Committee, another $200 from Tom and Jeany Franz, TJ Franz Associates, Webb City, with the remaining $325 coming from unnamed sources who gave less than $100 apiece, according to the report.

Steele had spent $30 of the money at the end of the reporting period.