Somewhere I think we linked the emergency ordinance in the works but the ongoing Kansas City toy train shell game is the status quo at City Hall for all things related to the streetcar. Thankfully, this group of government watch dogs reports on the aftermath. Checkit:
City Hall Siphons $200,000.00 from Bus Fund to Streetcar! Here's how they voted!
On Thursday afternoon our City Council voted to give $924,938.00 to the Streetcar Authority to purchase more land! (Ordinance #160049). It is interesting this ordinance did not have a sponsor listed. Only one councilperson had the guts to vote NO… Heather Hall! (Teresa Loar was absent from the session).
The ordinance states and you can read it on line, “... appropriating $200,000 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance in the Public Mass Transportation Fund…” After City Hall’s recent comments about the urgency of spending money for the Troost and Prospect MAX bus lines, they turn around and give almost a quarter million dollars to the streetcar which doesn’t help the people looking for better transportation on Troost or Prospect. This is the same City Hall that tells us we must vote YES on the Earnings tax or the City will blow up. It doesn’t look to me like we need to keep the earnings tax when we can throw taxpayer dollars away on a streetcar that few people support.
In an interview with Councilwoman Hall, she told us she voted "NO" because she is under the impression the voters have told City Hall EIGHT times, they don’t want a streetcar and "to her knowledge there has been no “public” discussion to expand the streetcar”.
The only plan for expansion is the secrete plan shown to “selected groups” around town b the KCRTA. In an open forum last week the KCRTA spokesman stated they had "no plans to share this new proposal with the voting public”. (the expansion could cost the taxpayers $800,000,000).
The attached file shows how and who voted on this issue. It looks to us like the City will continue to spend foolishly while preaching doom and gloom if we don’t pass the earnings tax.
Here’s a thought, let’s defeat the earnings tax and pull the plug on the City’s slush fund. Let’s force our City Council, Mayor and City Manager to reorganize the City’s finances and do away with frivolous programs and huge public subsidies. Is there a leader in City Hall? Stay tuned…
Citizens for Responsible Government
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How much is another election for a streetcar extension going to cost the public and that's no even 5 years from when the majority of voters told Sly & company NO.
ReplyDeleteHEATHER HALL for Mayor!!!
ReplyDeleteListening to the people!
SHOCK! Heather Hall votes "no" on everything! I predict she will join the great ranks of "no" voters like Paul Danaher and um, well...Paul Danaher!!! Remember all the great things Paul did for his District? Well, no, neither can I. I do remember Zona Rosa had to have a councilman from another district...ED FORD...handle the project because Paul Danaher was, you guessed it, a "no" vote.
ReplyDeleteIs Paul still selling copiers?
Everything will get straightened out when the city gets your E Tax money. Don't you worry about a thing.
ReplyDeleteYes, no need to worry. None of these first-time councilmembers like Hall will get a city pension (although Loar and Shields will).
ReplyDeleteHall will be one less idiot sucking on the taxpayer teat. At least that is at least a step in the right direction.
2:42 and 2:51 same person set to get some of this wasted money!
ReplyDeleteI see the psychic is back.
ReplyDeleteYou are an internet troll ! You don't live here. You must be a low life with no life. Go suck your sweetie dick . Shithouser
DeleteI see the Disability fraud thief is still here. It's about time KCMO had somebody that can say NO !
ReplyDeleteThis streetcar is nothing but a bullshiter lawyer unemployment plan. KC has long been home to street crime but with these lawyers in charge things have really become much worse.
ReplyDeleteThe Streetcar does relatively nothing to bring jobs. People who take the bus rely on it for their jobs. By taking away money from the Prospect or Troost lines, the city once again hurts people who use mass transit for employment, not a free ride to the Power & Light District.
ReplyDeleteI like it!
ReplyDeleteLay down on the tracks Tony-here comes the TOY TRAIN.
Good luck with that stages of loss.
Who is Mensa Boy, and does he believe in bulk mail?
200 grand, huh. Must be installing that bulletproof glass to keep the engineer safe from the niggers and wino's who will be taking over the train.
ReplyDeleteWhat a total cluster fuck and rip off of taxpayer monies.
How much is in the train graffiti budget. Surely the city fathers knew what happens to these trains all over America. Pffffft I bet this is another service the E Tax will cover. Btw: Has anyone seen a line by line accounting of where the E Tax money has been spent in the past? I can guarantee it wasn't spent to lower those property taxes the cronies keep trying to scare the citizens with.
ReplyDeleteHow much money is the city wasting on salaries for staff working on the toy train?
ReplyDeleteClose em down. Turn off the spigot NO on E_TAX
ReplyDeleteThe KC ATA: $85 million per year budget. How many empty buses do we have on the roads every day.
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