TKC BREAKING AND EXCLUSIVE NEWS!!! INTERCEPTED DOX: KANSAS CITY NTDF COMMITTEE THREATENED BY CITY HALL E-MAIL DEMANDING SUPPORT FOR MAYOR SLY'S SWOPE PARK ART FESTIVAL!!!
A controversial Kansas City art festival proposed by Mayor Sly James will loot money from other neighborhood events in a favor of this politically motivated effort. The ordinance proposing this event was passed last week from the City Council and now the mandate is being delivered to a local board that must cut other resources in order to support the idea.
To wit . . .
CHECK OUT RESISTANCE FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD TOURIST DEVELOPMENT FUND COMMITTEE TO STRONG ARM TACTICS FROM CITY HALL DEMANDING OBEDIENCE FOR A COSTLY AND UNPROVEN ARTY PARTY PROPOSED BY MAYOR SLY JAMES!!!
Here's the word . . .
"Megan is beating up the NTDF Committee for not supporting the $250,000 taken from neighborhoods to support Sly's pet project. She went off to the committee in our last meeting, keep in mind we are appointed by Mayor and Council. This money is to hire an Art Curator for the project."
And now . . .
Check the note INTERCEPTED by our AWESOME BLOG COMMUNITY:
NTDF Committee,
I am pleased to announce that the NTDF Committee recommendations for 3rd Quarter applications and the festival event was approved by City Council today. I want to thank you for your support.
I would like to remind everyone that the festival will support arts, cultural and creative nonprofits and individuals on a citywide for an event to be located in a jewel public space, located within a neighborhood, Swope Park. When the city-initiated festival initially proposed, it was to propose distribution of NTDF funds as intended by state statute and city ordinance under a programmatic framework. When I was asked to submit the proposal in application form, I agreed so that the merit of the proposal could be evaluated in a format that was familiar. However, I will stress again that the OCCS, in making a proposal, does not function as an applicant. The City of KCMO, OCCS, and NTDF remain the funder to distribute the funds to the community that meet the purpose and intention of the program.
I would also ask that in the future, the posted and public meetings be utilized to express the concerns and questions of business agendas. I remain available to each and every one of you to answer questions or provide clarification of this new proposed idea. To hear through the media after the unanimous vote was taken by the committee, that there was discontent within the oversight body, is disconcerting. If there was new information that changed opinions on the vote within the 5 month period that lapsed between NTDF Committee action (May) and Council consideration (October), the Chair or 5 committee members has the ability to place an item on the agenda for further discussion. As Council-appointees, you all have the power and oversight to make recommendations to Council.
Now that Council has approved the item, I ask for your participation in ensuring, not whether, but how this can be most successful for our Kansas City community.
Sincerely,
Megan Crigger
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You decide . . .
Bully like Trump.
ReplyDeleteThat's the way things are done in Kansas City.
^^^^^^Are you ever delusional.
ReplyDeleteA FESTIVAL is Swope Park.
ReplyDeleteWhat a hoot. Seriously I can't wait to read about the carnage.
Will the "performance artist" who lies on the ground in a body bag be there? He alone could cost $100,000!
ReplyDeleteThe Neighborhood "Tourism" fund is nothing more than yet another city slush fund that politicos use to buy votes and pander to their favorite insiders and groups.
When a typical neighborhood picnic funded by this costs $15,000 for hot dogs, chips, and drinks for about 35 people, imagine what the taxpayers are going to get for $250,000.
Art?
More like magic by turning money into thin air.
"Crigger?" We all know what THAT rhymes with.
ReplyDeleteI say lets appoint the man-child Caleb Clifford to be King of All People to rule with malevolence and ignorance. The Hell with an elected president. We should all just give up. I have.
ReplyDeleteMegan Crigger needs someone to help her write. That's a pitiful example of communicating with people she should be winning to her side.
ReplyDeletePlaza Art Fair, Brookside Art Fair, Westport Art Fair, First Fridays, multiple museums and galleries. WTF does KC have any biz spending a quarter-million dollars on another art event.
ReplyDeleteWhat a shithole Kansas City is. Corporate lapdogs and bloodsuckers ... and grifters ... at every level of government. I wouldn't go to an art festival in Swope Park, not even if I was sure I wouldn't end up a crime victim.
ReplyDeleteHow many days are left in the James administration? Whatever the number it's too many. Somebody needs to post a counter on the internet.
ReplyDeleteIf their looking to hire an ART DIRECTOR, I'm available, I've got a couple cans of Spray Paint, will that qualify me ???????
ReplyDeleteA guy who was an MP, an ambulance chaser and a Mayor of a midsize city gets an Art Fair In The Soccer Field that will continue for eternity?
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