Jackson County Exec Frank White Calls Out 'My Arts' Youth Education & Training Program In An Attempt To Sling Mud At Critics
Here's the Courthouse leader playing election season political games with a program that helps students ... A hint at where the story originated: "Jackson County Executive Frank White questions if that sale and subsequent lease are in the best interests of taxpayers."
Take a better look at the hit piece with a cute headline:
Take a better look at the hit piece with a cute headline:
Jackson County building sale for $10 questioned
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. - The sale and subsequent investment of a building off of Independence City Square is drawing the ire of Jackson County leaders. In 2010, Jackson County bought the My Arts building at 315 N. Main St. from the City of Independence for $1.
It looks like he questioned the sale of a building for $10 after spending $1 million on it.
ReplyDeleteWhy was this sold for $10? Why did Mike Hendricks overlook this tidbit?
ReplyDelete@ 7:51 wouldn't you?
ReplyDeleteIf you'd seen that much spent by the County and then watched a group of the "fine, upstanding, scrupulously honest Legislators" who question every decision you make pull off this sort of theft, wouldn't you raise a few questions?
I'm no fan of Franks, but i's starting to look like the whole lot of them needs to go.
Well to be fair, Independence sold it to Jackson County for $1 so they made a $9 profit, right?
ReplyDeleteYOU people / voters of KCMO are being played for fools by KCMO City hall and Jackson County legislators !!!
ReplyDeleteBut don't protest over any real issues,,, protest over the really stupid things like you've been doing,,,,,,,
continue to show your ignorance & stupidity on any real issues !!
its YOUR MONEY / TAX DOLLARS !!!!!!!!!
What a nothing story. This is pretty standard practice for one local government entity to sell a property to another for practically nothing. The taxpayers already paid for the building once, so Frank would have them do it all over again, just moving their tax money from one local government to another? Would he prefer the building go unused?
ReplyDeleteIf he's so concerned about financial responsibility, maybe he ought to stop buying pick-up trucks for his chief of staff. Or wasting taxpayer dollars to house and probably insure Ken McClain's private art collection in the old courthouse on the Square. Oh, I forgot McClain was part of that secret meeting with Frank and convict Mike Sanders that dealt with Frank's "private" financial crisis.
So, Frank, why, in one of your first acts as Executive, did you sign off on paying 50some million $ for an abandoned railroad line assessed for only about a fourth of that? I don't know anything about art collections and pickup trucks. But 9:32 is right. The county isn't and shouldn't charge a school district in the county a lot of money to use a building that otherwise was going to be abandoned. At least now the school district can make some good use of it.
ReplyDelete4/19/18, 8:22 AM
ReplyDeleteJackson County tax payers paid for all the environmental clean up, so your math is very fuzzy. It was another Waits and Sanders deal, that Mayor Boom-Boom helped along. The real winner was Ken McClain's brother who owns property near the site. His property values skyrocketed when the clean up was done.