TKC MUST READ!!! KANSAS CITY MAYOR SLY JAMES TOUTS TALKING POINTS FOR $800 MILLION GO BOND CITY HALL SLUSH FUND!!!



Kansas City voters should know that THE GO BOND FACT SHEET IS GARBAGE.

There are very few deets about how this cash is going to be used, not list of projects and a 20-year time-span for the sales tax is way too long to get anything substantial accomplished.

Meanwhile, just about every special interest group in Kansas City is lining up to get a piece of this money.

Credit there it's due . . . The only thing that people really seem to want is animal shelter improvements that will probably help to push this thing over the top with few questions.

Here's a note on the project from Mayor Sly who has most of this cash already spent for the remainder of his tenure. Checkit:

Kansas City Mayor Sly James: 4 Things to know about the GO Bond package

Starting this week, you will hear a lot of discussion about a G.O., or general obligation, bond package that voters will be asked to approve in April.

Conversation is starting now because it’s a significant investment, but one that signals our commitment to a making Kansas City a world-class city for years to come.

When I took office in 2011, the city faced around six billion dollars in ‘deferred maintenance’. That’s billion, with a “B”. Simply put, our infrastructure needs as a city had been kicked down the road for too long.

These are dollars that fix or maintain roads, bridges and sidewalks, along with making curbs ADA compliant. This kind of investment updates city facilities to be more energy efficient, and makes neighborhoods better equipped to handle flooding. We use these funds to maintain the infrastructure our city relies on, and to make sure we’re planning wisely for future generations.

So as the conversation here at City Hall begins this week about what the GO bond package will entail, I want to lay out a few things every Kansas Citian should know about this debate:

1. We must build accountability and transparency measures into the plan that give our residents confidence they will see a strong return on this $800 million investment and will know where their money is going.

2. The GO bond package should be strategic. Facts and data should guide our thinking. Not politics or a old ways of thinking that carve up investment with little regard for future planning.

3. We must take a comprehensive approach to our infrastructure needs. We need roads (that are designed for vehicles, bikes and feet!), bridges, sidewalks, capital improvements to city facilities, and flood control improvements. We cannot ask Kansas Citians to approve a plan that does not adequately address all of those basic infrastructure needs.

4. Every part of our city has basic infrastructure needs. Kansas Citians have my word that I will not support a GO bond plan that does not improve every single corner of our community.

When I ask my community members for their support on something like this, I do not take it lightly. My days in the Marines taught me a lot about loyalty, hard work and a sense of duty. I’ll carry those lessons with me each day as I make my way across the city this winter and spring to talk with you about this important step we can take, together.

Let’s keep in mind the type of city we want to be in five years, ten years, twenty years and beyond.

Let’s keep our commitment to the next generation of Kansas Citians by maintaining the things that make our city a great place to live, work and raise your family.

Let’s do this, Kansas City.

MSJ
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Comments

  1. Never 20 years.

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  2. Just what we need. More debt for Kansas City and a fund that's eventually going to be used for the streetcar extension.

    NO THANKS!

    Why isn't there ever any campaign against these endless taxes so that we can avoid becoming the next Detroit?

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  3. can we go ahead and put the animal shelter on a separate vote item? We need a lot of improvement there and I'm afraid that it's going to be lost in the feeding frenzy over this money.

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  4. Yes, with all the transparency and accountability that Sly has shown with the under-the-table streetcar vote followed by endless "transfer spending" and his lack of engagement in the city's horrendous murder problem, he's certainly set the stage to go to the voters for yet another $800 million.
    Does he even have a clue about what credibility is?
    And over 20 years to pay it back.
    The P&L District bonds are $15-20 million/year and run through 2030.
    Just kick the can down the road like a spendthrift using a credit card.
    What an operation!

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  5. What a joke.... LOL.

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  6. TKC here is a question that you need to ask the mayor: What cuts are you prepared to make in order to properly fund KC's infrastructure?

    You're not likely to get an answer because the city only knows how to tax and spend.

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  7. what are the projects and how much for each?

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  8. Ha ha ha! The kind of city we want is one without a crime wave, O Honorable Grifter in Chief!!

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  9. I can't think of better hands than our incorruptible Mayor for close to a billion dollars. Oh, wait. Charles Manson, Bozo the Clown. Some dead people. But other than that....

    This fat hog cannot stop asking for bigger and bigger troughs to swill from. :)

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  10. KCMO -->One of the highest sales taxes in the USA!

    Thanks Sly!

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  11. More police ?!?!

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  12. ^^^ Nope, we need a new hotel!

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  13. Weez gonna put food on ur family.

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  14. The same folks who stole PIAC money to "study" the streetcar now are asking for us to trust them... no.

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  15. No more money for City Hall until they tell us what EXACTLY is in this fund. VOTE NO!

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  16. Jargon & more Jargon!! Fat Man Sly thinks we are all stupid. Vote NO!!! We are all waiting till he is gone!!!!

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  17. My god. Almost a billion dollars charged on a credit card. Since most people think that bonds equal free money, and kc voters love free money, I'm sure this is a done deal.

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  18. NFUE as usual.

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  19. Sly is a shyster. Us citizens of KC are fools to even listen to a man who feels he has to remind us that he was a Marine. His past projects have been shady and less than democratic. He has forgotten that democracy is what real Marines serve for. A NO VOTE will REMIND SLY

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