The St. Louis Rams, Washington University and some developers and contracting and engineering companies made donations to the campaign committee for a half-increase in the transit tax in St. Louis County before County Executive Charlie Dooley shelved the proposal.

The campaign committee raised $122,589.50 and spent $65,355.91, a campaign finance report the group filed with the state Ethics Commission says. The document covered committee activity through Dec. 31.

The committee is dormant until officials decide whether to revive the tax proposal, Mike Coleman, head of the group, said. It has $44,244.09 in its campaign chest, its report said.

Voters were to consider the proposal on Feb. 5. The proposal divided the half-cent increase into two parts – one-fourth cent for maintenance of Metro’s public transit system and one-fourth cent for MetroLink expansion. The measure would raise about $80 million a year. The tax increase would end 20 years after it is imposed. The current transit sales tax is one fourth cent.

Dooley shelved the proposal after Metro lost a high-profile lawsuit about construction delays and cost overruns in a MetroLink expansion from Forest Park to Shrewsbury.

The Rams and Washington University each donated $5,000 to the committee. The largest donor was McCarthy, a general contractor that built part of the MetroLink extension from Forest Park to Shrewsbury. McCarthy donated $10,000.

Other donors of $5,000 were Alberici Group, Anheuser Busch Cos. Inc., J.H. Berra Construction Co., Crawford Murphy & Tilly Inc. engineering company, Drury Inns Inc., Geotechnology Inc,, Leehar Distributors Inc., McEagle Properties, attorney Jerome Schlichter, Ann Scott, Fred Weber Inc. and Whelen Security.

Dooley’s campaign committee made in-kind contributions totaling $15,589.50 to the sales tax campaign. They were to MSHC Partners Inc. and Devine Mulvey Inc., both for Washington, D.C., for campaign consulting and television commercial production, respectively, and for office supplies, Coleman said.

In addition, the campaign committee paid $22,000 to Devine Mulvey for television commercials and $24,775 to Hamilton Campaigns of Fernandina Beach, Fla., for polling. Most of the remaining spending was for other consultants.

Virtually all of the campaign committee’s activity stopped Dec. 14, the day after Dooley announced that he wanted the proposal removed from the ballot.

Coleman said he and an aide worked until the end of the year to wind down the group. Among his tasks was explaining to campaign contributors what had happened, Coleman said.