TKC BREAKING AND EXCLUSIVE NEWS!!! MAYOR SLY AND POWER BROKER MIKE BURKE KCMO ARTS CONVERGENCE PLAN FACES OBJECTION BY CRITICS!!! PIAC VOTES NO ON MOVE TO LOOT THEIR FUNDS!!!
During Thanksgiving week, Kansas City will be faced with a choice betwixt art vs. infrastructure.
Check it:
CRITICS RAGE AGAINST THE KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI ARTS CONVERGENCE PLAN THAT WILL LOOT MONEY THAT WOULD OTHERWISE FUND IMPORTANT INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS!!!
Don't believe TKC??? Read the Kansas City, Missouri Arts Convergence Plan for yourself.
In a nutshell, here's the mission statement:
"KCMO Arts Convergence is a new cooperative effort to strengthen and leverage this extraordinary arts and cultural community, and to fulfill the City’s momentum in becoming a national cultural center. It is a comprehensive master plan for the City of Kansas City, MO (the public role) in tandem with community partners to take action in key areas of need and opportunity."
The resolution goes to Council on Tuesday and it gives credit to Kansas City power broker Mike Burke for doing most of the heavy lifting . ..
Still, critics of the effort believe that the legislation is getting pushed through on this shortened Thanksgiving week in order to avoid mainstream media scrutiny.
Thankfully, BRILLIANT TKC TIPSTERS have laid out the deets and what we should be watching . . .
Here are the highlights . . .
In its current configuration the KCMO Arts Convergence plan will . . .
- Take 1% off the top of Kansas City PIAC funds. Roughly more than $700K. Remember the Public Improvements Advisory Committee (PIAC) is mostly in charge of important infrastructure improvements that this town desperately needs.
- PIAC is just the start . . . The plan calls for MONEY REMOVED FROM THE GENERAL FUND TO FINANCE this artsy Kansas City effort.
- Add 4 more employees with EXECUTIVE SALARIES and goofy titles amid a City Hall pay and hiring freeze.
And here's where things get really horrible and Kansas City gets a glimpse of mainstream media complicity in pushing through Mayor Sly's elitist agenda . . .
UNREPORTED SO FAR: IN A RECENT MEETING PIAC VOTED AGAINST SUPPORTING THE KCMO ARTS CONVERGENCE PLAN BY AN OVERWHELMING MARGIN!!!
PIAC money has long been looted by City Hall but this move seemed exceptionally frustrating given that it counters Mayor Sly's recent "reform & repair" infrastructure promises AND giving money to the arts instead of infrastructure just doesn't make sense.
Even better . . .
KICK-ASS INSIDERS EXPLAIN WHAT THE 1% SKIM FROM PIAC IN THE NAME OF ARTSY ENDEAVORS REALLY MEANS!!!
Just a bit of background . . . PIAC works to fund mandated and leveraged projects. A mandated project like the EPA Water/Sewer hot mess is like homework whereas leveraged projects are akin to winning the lottery and other agencies help to finance a project with a KCMO partnership agreement.
Critics of the KCMO Arts Convergence Plan contend that that skimming from PIAC will make Kansas City unable to complete some leveraged projects.
Here's the money quote:
"Walking away from leveraged projects for the sake of arts funding is akin to winning in Vegas and leaving the money on the table."
Furthermore, KC Insiders argue . . .
"I'm disgusted, dismayed and distraught that the Mayor and Council would display such screwed up priorities and pick arts funding over infrastructure improvement. Where's the benefit in that?"
There's a hope that the Council will stand up to the Mayor on this one and THIS EPIC TKC POST IS THE FIRST to note PIAC objection and a groundswell of criticism of the plan.
Expect more opponents of this move to arise once the details of Mayor Sly choosing art over infrastructure are put on blast everywhere but FIRST according to AWESOME TKC TIPSTERS.
Developing . . .
Mayor Sly James never said he cared about infrastructure but this is just brazen that he's choosing frou frou patronage jobs over PIAC. That's just a dumb move.
ReplyDeleteDid Mike Burke ever spell out his view regarding unsolicited bulk email?
ReplyDeleteWhat do you expect from a fucking nigger like Sly?
ReplyDeleteWhy can't these dollars go toward the huge water problem that is causing our water rates to be astronomical?
ReplyDeleteNo one questions the Great Sly! Do you hear me? NO ONE!!!
ReplyDeleteWhatever the black folks say, is the gospel, because after all, they're black people and to do otherwise would be.....wait for it.......racist!
ReplyDeleteDang, the racists look for any opportunity to spew their crap. Burke is white numbnuts and he does not make dollar one from this.
ReplyDelete"brilliant tkc tipsters".....what the fuck? These are staffers who don't have the hairy balls to be honest and raise their issue publicly. In that way, they are much like the anonymous bigots who only raise issue through a third rate blog in an anonymous manner.
This applies to every fucking issue here.
The brilliant tkc tipsters, along with the racists, need to show up at the hearing and voice their opinion. Infrastructure over arts is a valid position, but I will tell you, $700K does not pave many streets.
Whiners, racists, haters........at least you serve to give the most lazy Mexican in KC a platform to do something other than get a real job.
Good luck Chiefs!
"cooperative effort to strengthen and leverage this extraordinary arts and cultural community"
ReplyDeleteThat means six or seven filthy rich people who want private arts venues (usually with their name affixed to it) paid for with public money.
Mike Burke does not work for free, there are people with very big bucks behind this effort to raid the public treasury.
We are not talking about struggling young artists.
"Burke' does not make dollar one from this."
ReplyDeleteBull Shit!
The Billable Hours are applied to one account or another.
The reason I didn't vote for Mike was he supported Troy Schulte for CM. Sly was iffy. I will not vote for Sly again. Wait for Pat Klein comment in 5,4,3,2,....1.
ReplyDeleteEverybody has big, hairy, balls under the cloak of "anonymous".
ReplyDeleteYOU ARE ALL GIRLY MEN!
What time do the games begin today?
ReplyDeleteThe Games!
914, 916, 922.
ReplyDeleteGet off your asses, show up during the hearing, and state your name and why you object.
If crazy Carol Coe can do it, you can.
You just choose to gripe in an anonymous manner.
Grow a pair.
12PM 9:36
ReplyDeleteToday is fiddle day. All fans are encouraged to bring their fiddles.
Halftime show will feature the fabulous fiddler's of CK.
Burke finds a dollar in everything he has anything to do with. What is he making for hawking Google?
ReplyDeleteSchulte can only be as good as the mayor and council policies are. Yeah -- they all suck!
ReplyDeleteThe streets in my neighborhood continue to literally crumble and disintegrate and the KCMO leadership does this. Somebody please find the mainstream news organizations. This is an emergency. Stop the Mayor and City Council from ruining the city. PLEASE!!
ReplyDeleteI'm working for one of these arts thingy start ups. I don't get paid or anything, but I got tired of Facebook asking me to update my job while unemployed.
ReplyDeleteFirst PIAC funds were syphoned off to "study" streetcars.... now they are to be used for "art." And elected officials wonder why they are trusted.
ReplyDeleteI hereby make a resolution to work hard to produce more resolutions that stroke our ego's for all the wonderful things we are doing for our city.
ReplyDeleteI hereby enter Legislation #:35666 Introduction Date: 11/24/2013 officially making @KCMO on Twitter the official CK spokesperson.
I hereby enter Legislation #:35667 Introduction Date: 11/24/2013 to officially change the city nickname to The Zimbabwe Of The Plains, and take the necessary steps to find $5 Million - loan or credit so a study can be done to determine which unused space would be be suitable for a wild animal safari park, an international tourist attraction.
ReplyDeleteWell this city is for sure full of wild animals who need caged
ReplyDelete9:48 AM, It is the fact that Schulte is a lying piece of shit. Nothing to do with council policies. Comment from Pat in 5,4,3,2,1
ReplyDelete931+1.
ReplyDeleteAll "anonymous" shall grab their ass and show up at the PIAC hearing and public voice our point of view.
Naw, rather sit behind the cloak of an anonymous post and bitch.
3 years I worked for KC, and got RIFed when that empty suit of a city manager siphoned off department funds when he could not meet his budget. And yes, Pat is his hand maiden, along with at least two other assist city managers.
But at the same time, there are A LOT of do nothing employees that are under disciplinary actions that use this shit ass blog to spin information in a way that takes the heat off of them. These are your TKC tipsters.
This is what KC(CK)MO "leadership" is all about.
ReplyDeleteMORE FOR THEMSELVES AND LESS FOR EVERYBODY ELSE.
9:14, let me explain why you are dead wrong.
ReplyDeleteMany people have spoken publicly against the very bad idea of this arts convergence and using capital dollars to fund it. The fact the PIAC voted against it in a public and televised meeting proves as much.
Your argument that $700k doesn't pave many streets is a myth. Because that $700k would be gone, KCMO will be unable to fund at least two, and possibly more, leveraged PIAC projects over the next five years. In case you don't know what that means, it means another entity, such as MoDOT or the Feds, is willing to give us money if we come up with a % of the total project cost. This is how our bigger projects get funded.
When we can't match these dollars offered to us, we have to walk away from projects that will now NOT get done. That is making the decision of picking art STAFF over desperately-needed and promised infrastructure, and over the wishes of the PIAC.
Maybe people who have complained publicly, only to be brushed aside, tell TKC hoping to get the word out.
And I find it ironic that you, who complain about all the "racists" and "haters" categorize Tony as "the most lazy Mexican in KC."
I'm only for public art if it involves more boo boobies. I'm getting tired of these lgbt artists putting up phallic symbols everywhere. see bartle hall, briarcliff lights, kemper cancer, etc
ReplyDeleteWell anyone with half a brain knows this city is mainly corrupt all through city hall and the county offices. Sure there are those who don't work and are juiced into the job and have an easy life while the poor guy next to them catches hell all the time but is a model employees who makes the bad ones stand out and they hate that.
ReplyDeleteNext election use the power of voting to not return a single person in office back for another term. If you want to send a message fast and hard that's the way to do it. If that group pulls the same stuff vote them out as well. If nobody runs against them do a write in pick a person who you know to be good leader/business person and write that name in. This town needs strong business educated types running it and not lawyers who are smart to all the laws that allows them to waste your taxpayer dollars on idiotic street cars, hotels and airports while the rest of the town falls into a heap of decay.
Anyone who thinks that "showing up at hearings and meetings" influences decisions made about public spending in KCMO needs to drop the civics textbook and get into the real world. Decisions are made behind closed doors and under the table every day on the 22nd and 29th floors at 12th and Oak and th epublic's opinion doesn't count at all. Window dressing, town hall meetings
ReplyDeletedog-and-pony shows, summit meetings, meetings meetings...you can go to whichever you want.
But you're nothing but a prop.
A city that works.
Just not for you.
11:09 nails the process and the problem.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, 11:27 has a point as well.
I may not agree with what Tony says all the time or who he allows to do posts here but I will say what he isn't and thats "the most lazy Mexican in KC."
ReplyDeleteIt takes more effort than you clowns think to keep the blog going 7 days a week, updated all day long. I notice nobody else running around doing it at the success with the numbers that he is getting for hits to this site. Sure others have tried and they have failed. KCC would like you to think they have this huge readership and it's a site a huge part of this town doesn't even know exists. Where as TKC get's it's fair share and more of public exposure from other media be it by broadcasting or print. I mean face it Tony made the cover of The Pitch long before Glazer did or KCC did. Oh wait I am sorry KCC has never been on the cover of The Pitch.
You will see my picture on the cover of the Rolling Stone
DeleteTKC is the Fourth Estate in KC. No mainstream media reports any local news anymore. When is the last time the Star did any kind of in-depth investigative reporting. When is the last time any media looked at council expense reports? That would be a good start. Who is paying for Wagner to go to China twice in two years? Why are Wagner's and Circo's aides driving city cars? Check out where there parked? The mayor has nearly doubled his office budget since he got there -- what for? How much time do council members spend at city hall? (10 minutes a week for Taylor!) Go TKC,this is a months worth of articles for you.
ReplyDeleteMaybe CK should start buying the debt of other city's so we can start imposing fiscal discipline on them.
ReplyDeleteLMAO!!
All one needs to do is read Circo's Facebook timeline to get idea of how how fucked up everything is and how fucked it's going to continue to get.
ReplyDeleteYes talking about the new penguins at the zoo for an episode of News Makers is one of her greatest achievements.
ReplyDeleteTen year old kids in the CK Ghetto know the games rigged, fixed.
ReplyDeleteLots of empty seats at Arrowhead today..
ReplyDeleteHow come the game isn't on the god damn Internet? I thought we are now the most technologically advanced city in the solar system?
ReplyDeleteYeah but do their parents who voted realize they are being screwed 12:17?
ReplyDeletethat first 9:14 HAS to be a troll right?
ReplyDeletestop feeding him. you are all pussois for posting anon? tony the laziest guy in kc? puhleeze
who put white text against a light blue background? i can barely read that report and I have young eyes.
also I don't care if 83% of people in kc find culture emotionally fulfilling. thats an absurd statistic. "do you like culture?" "is culture the most important thing?" how much did they spend on that survey yeezus.
What we have today is not culture, it's marketing.
ReplyDeleteWe are 12:22. Fiber is being strung up on telephone poles. One hell of a forward thinking and futuristic achievement.
ReplyDeleteMake mural out of this one:
ReplyDeleteKC = Detroit
I saw a billboard that said: "Kansas City more art than Austin". There ought to be one up that says Kansas City More Niggers than Oakland."
ReplyDeleteEAT THE RICH!!!
ReplyDeleteWatch D.W. Griffith's "Birth of a Nation" to really understand african americans in political power.
ReplyDeleteThis part of your opening statement: "KCMO Arts Convergence is a new cooperative effort to strengthen and leverage this extraordinary arts and cultural community..." is the biggest pile of shit you have ever tried to plate up and put in front of me to eat, first off those alien space craft things and the shuttle cock, no matter how you try to explain it away, it is not art, for some reason if a fucking retard picks up a crayon and scribbles the only one not going to realize and call that art is the retard. painting & decorating cows is not art neither is that new KC symbol but that was important for its tie in to the black community and as far as being diverse? KC is over using that expression as well, nearly all the small business are either black owned, or hispanic owned and thats exactly how far KC wants to get diverse with its self. So I give a big hearty fuck you to what you pass off as art, non racist crime, diversity, equality and anything else that kansas City tries to pass off as honorable or decent
ReplyDelete@12:06 Wagner is in China with a team of runners at the tax payers expense to do a mini marathon and sell citizenship under the EB-5 Program ... that very program that failed in Florida where you sell citizenship for a $500,000 investment into a company here in america and if they keep 6 employees employed for 4 years F/T whether its pushing a broom or cooking at Mickey D's the person who invested the $500,000 into the company and his WHOLE family gets US citizenship but they get temp citizenship here for the 4 years they are waiting to see if the 6 F/T employees last .. in other words he's over in China selling Green Cards for Human trafficking. Even the Hispanic Chamber does it KCP&L Valerie C and the Executive Director Carlos theres huge money in this because there is no follow up and absolutely no oversight
ReplyDeleteJermaine has his aide drive him around in a city car so he won't be "recognizes". God knows where he's going. Buddies maybe?
ReplyDeleteThis PIAC money grab is a bad deal. We need improved infrastructure, not some fluffy art shit and four high-paying jobs that will go to friends of council members and the mayor. When people were asked to vote for the tax to support parks and rec. We were promised improved infrastructure. This arts convergence crap is a kick in the teeth.