TKC BREAKING AND EXCLUSIVE NEWS!!!! KANSAS CITY BIZ PLAN FORECASTS PUBLIC SAFETY CUTS AND COURT COST HIKES!!!



Attending Kansas City budget meetings is a waste of time. Elected officials and their favorite bureaucrats will simply console the public about harsh economic times and then pretend that all of this town's bills are locked in . . .

Meanwhile, even a cursory glace at some City Hall memos are fare more interesting. For instance, the City Biz Plan for the next 5 years is currently up for approval and reveals more than a few tragic stalling tactics . . .

Here's a quick peek at upcoming cuts . . .

- Fire operating budget decrease in FY 2018-2021 of $2.5 million

- Wage freeze in Year 5 (FY 2021)

- Municipal Court revenue increases by $2 million in FY 2017-2021

Now, what does this mean . . .

Many bow-tie wearing City Hall denizens like to talk about "not kicking the can down the road" but the fact is that City Hall is STALLING on fixing their financial problems and is putting off difficult cuts.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this stuff out but the fact is KCMO is approaching a cash crunch and committing to so many frou-frou tourist attractions is part of the problem.

Developing . . .

Comments

  1. Not to worry, the streetcar is totally going to fix this.

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  2. Seems totally related, bro. Except that the streetcar doesn't use any money from the General fund and has already DIRECTLY lead to more development and more tax money than the line and its operations cost...

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  3. 1:22 PM

    LOL... amazing you were able to post that with a straight face BRO.

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  4. Municipal court revenue increase - more traffic tickets for suburban drivers. Underfund pensions, dole out more TIFs, ignore crime. In other words follow the Detroit model.

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  5. More tax money. Oh yah that downtown TDD is just a veritable gusher of property tax revenue! And property values are way up too!

    LMAO!

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  6. 1:22 doesn't much matter where funds come from, wasting money is still depleting a tax base that could be used for something productive. Same stupid argument that somehow the Sprint Center is profitable because the hotel and rental car taxes count as income.

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  7. This is your plan, Sly?

    Outrageous that you can't build a city to generate its own revenue so you are just going to take the visitors to death instead of building something sustainable.

    There is always that comment: "KC = Detroit" but this is worse, KC = Some kind of banana republic that's nothing more than a destination for swingers and tax dodgers.

    Shame on this city for electing such a buffon.

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  8. KCMO has a huge gap between the city it desires and the city it can afford. Time to let the Northland de-annex from the city.

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  9. Can you spell DETROIT!!!

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  10. Sly James, king of the post dated check.

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    1. Woooooooooooooooooooo (means you got "FLAIR") !!!!!!!!
      Damn funny...FTW !!!

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  11. I think service cuts and more fines will impact our tourist rating more than all of these fancy projects will. But I will only agree with the comments about one thing: We need to focus on creating jobs. Without that there is NOTHING.

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  12. If we hurry and give some more tax breaks and build a few hotels no one will notice. Welcome to being managed by black folk Kansas City.

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  13. Staring At Young Women10/7/15, 3:04 PM

    What is disgusting is that there are some people who are actually going to be surprised when KCMO declares bankruptcy.

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  14. Whilst the niggers overrun our lives, our society, our WORLD!

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  15. What a fucking loser ^^^^^^^^.

    If your in doubt, consider what purpose someone has by ranting hate on a 3rd rate blog site.

    Now, we can go back to ignoring you for another 6 months.

    BTW, don't spawn.

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  16. Amen 3:39 he is a short dick loser.

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  17. The racist bitch was sent over from a 4th rate site in a strategy to take over the KC area internet that will work sometime 20 years from now, when they're all 85.

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  18. Based on the numbers from the Kansas City budget meetings with citizens, the overwhelming concern among Kansas City residents is..........................................INFRASTRUCTURE!

    Over 75% of the citizens polled say Kansas City's infrastructure is not good or great.

    What do city leaders do about it? It's such a lack of concern for the City Council that they actually lower the citizen Infrastructure approval rating objective/goal for 2016. No joke. They don't give one shit about the infrastructure. It's all about accumulating debt via TIFs, toy train, new airport, new downtown hotel.

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  19. Hey, KC already gets 24 million tourists a year! City Hall said so!

    Once the train is runnng, KC will get 50 million tourists a year. That's as many as New York City!

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  20. 4:21 nails it.

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  21. Another vote for 4:21 PM

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  22. Even though tax payers are going to get bent over and drilled they will still sit on their fat asses and let the same crew of crooks stay in office. Crooked politicians in this town have relied on the numb nuts of KC for decades.

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  23. one cop patrolling 7 neighborhoods any givin weekend. You voted for him and his pet poodle Jolie Justus. ....Kathryn and Theresa time to kick butt.

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