News of ongoing financial troubles and a dire outlook for a HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED local institution was buried in the news cycle overnight.
A redux link . . .
Consultants Recommend Temporarily Closing Kansas City's American Jazz Museum
So far here's one of the most insightful things we've read from our blog community about the topic . . .
Diogenes Jr. - "It was doomed to mediocrity from the start, with probably the best example of that being the instance of Cleaver sending Jimmie Treat to Europe to spend $250,000 on a Plastic Saxophone that Charlie Parker never played in performance! And the place has gone downhill from there! Expenses, especially salaries, have never been questioned, (and have been lavish,) Managerial failures have no consequences, and the expertise necessary to run a Convenience Store has been sadly lacking.
"Close it, heal the open wound on the City Treasury, and try to spend the money on useful things for the minority community."
To wit . . .
SHOULD KCMO SHUT DOWN THE MONEY-LOSING AMERICAN JAZZ MUSEUM OR KEEP PLAYING FOR TIME WITH BORROWED CASH???
You decide . . .
If you close it, you'll have to close the Live Block, too. They lose $15 million every year.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a good start to me!
DeleteShut it down. I agree with the independent audit. They need all new management and transparency. No more bailouts for you.
ReplyDeleteGive the Jazz District TIF funds and make the jazz area a special tax district. Schulte will embrace this and convince mayor Slie it is the right thing to do provided they get their kickback.
ReplyDeleteRename it the MLK 18th & Vine Jazz District.
ReplyDeleteBut where will the one lady get money for those $1000 outrageous outfits she wears!
ReplyDeleteIf this were run by white people it would have already been shuttered. What hasn't Cleaver touched that hasn't ended up bankrupt?
ReplyDeleteMoney Pits are a Kansas city tradition.
ReplyDeleteNo, the KC tradition is bad cow town decision making.
DeleteOh No! The Jazz Museum? Another place none of you shut-ins has ever been. Of course you want it shut down. You want everything shut down.
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ReplyDeleteActually a fair percentage of metro residents have been there...
ONCE.
There's little to see or do there and it seldom changes.
The area has been incredibly poorly-managed almost from the day it opened, and the folks who have been involved over the years are best known for all the infighting, credit-taking, total lack of financial management, and outright grift.
Other than an occasional night at the Blue Room, you'd be lucky to see a dozen "tourists" in the area the entire day.
You can't make a lead airplane fly.
At some point city hall needs to reach way down and find the guts to work with the facts and look out for the taxpaying public for once.
Have Jermaine tun it. He is splendiforous!
ReplyDeleteHave Jermaine run it? That wouldn’t be any more efficient than the current setup. He would need to consult with Black Mafia President Jason Parson on every single detail. Jermaine already talks to Jason daily and gets Jason’s detailed feedback on EVERYTHING - even when to wipe his own butt. “Jason, this is Jermaine calling again, I wanted to discuss this fundraising memo and can I please wipe my butt now?”
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ReplyDeleteThe Jazz Museum is what most of downtown would look like if you took away the public subsidies.
You can construct a faux Renaissance in the middle of a landfill if you're willing to waste millions upon millions of taxpayer dollars on it.
That the 18th and Vine shenanigans have been allowed to go on endlessly speaks to the real institutional racism residing within KCMO City Hall.
Close the shithole down and nobody will notice except the people sucking the funds out of it for their Escalades.
ReplyDeleteClose this blog down and nobody but the geriatric shut-ins who absolutely have nothing else would notice. It might force them to go out and experience things instead of complaining ALL day long.
ReplyDeleteDon't shut down; use the standard KCMO fix - throw more taxpayers dollars down the toilet.
ReplyDeleteBuild a new Royals stadium by it.
ReplyDeleteI love jazz, to listen to. Jazz fans are not real idol worshipping types. I could not care less about the museum. Plus if I go to listen to jazz it is safer just south of the Sprint Center for me and my car.
ReplyDeleteGive it some more money, if the negroes promise to stay east of Troost. No going to Westport or the Plaza or Joco.
ReplyDelete@9:05 I guarantee you've never been.
ReplyDeleteAs you walk in, along the right wall, what is on display?
A negro?
ReplyDeleteLet young tide pod scholars run it. They know more than old folks.
ReplyDeleteThey would give up just like they are on the constitution!
ReplyDeleteWhy you ask?
Because they are that stupid!
Kansas City is obsessed with its jazz history. While it's certainly real and has a solid place in the history of music, most people who visit Kansas City aren't interested in jazz or jazz museums. The majority are small(er) town folks from Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa or up from Northwest Arkansas wanting to see the Royals, Chiefs, KC Sporting, and eat, eat, eat, and shop, shop, shop, and hit Nelson-Atkins and WW I museum. That's 95% of visitors.
ReplyDeleteNear a billion dollars and twenty years later, they just now found out it’s not worth it? Rev car wash quit wasting our money on your pipe dream. One could only imagine what the city could’ve done with all that money had it been spent appropriately...... I hope your listening sLIE
ReplyDeleteSince it appears local TV news often taps into TKC for stories, I would urge them to allow comment on their sites about their content. Only then will the larger community hear the kind of comments expressed by people on here who are concerned about this city. This excluded the stupid scatological and herp derp nonsense from the brain dead trolls.
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ReplyDeleteNothing more that a money sink for the bunch of crooks running it. Has always been that way. What do you expect?
ReplyDeleteThe museum is nothing but a non- functional shell which is used to employ those folks who would be basically unemployable in the private sector. Failure in the private sector has consequences. Here failure is the normal outcome resulting from incompetence.
ReplyDeleteWhat about those two bloggers what got kicked off Facebook?
ReplyDeleteDiamond and Silk...put them in charge and that chit will be yooge~!
Diamond and Silk are Republicans and the blacks in KC are too damn dumb to be a Republican. Especially at the shithole known as 18 and Vine.
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