The push for a new airport with no public input is the new hotness for Kansas City right now.
Accordingly . . .
CHECK THIS FACT CHECK FROM KANSAS CITY PETITIONERS CALLING FOR MORE TRANSPARENCY IN A PROCESS THAT HAS WORKED TO EXCLUDE VOTERS!!!
Here's the word . . .
Another Airport Meeting / Attempt to bypass vote?
In an effort to wear out the Airport Committee of the city council (Justus, Fowler, Loar and Lucas) another presentation was made this week by the city paid consultant Lou Solomon with AvAirPros. You probably remember Lou, he’s been paraded out before to tell the council committee and the voting public how stupid we are for even considering a remodel when he has this great plan sanctioned by the aviation department and the leaders at city hall. He more or less told the committee this week, it is time for them to approve the single terminal plan without really seeing any definitive proposals. He intimates there are no other options.
Lou is also the one who predicted a 40% increase in passenger traffic at KCI..
I wonder why Councilwoman Justus, as Chair of the committee, does not demand the time and invite Crawford and Associates to present their plan to the entire council and the voting public?? Wouldn’t that be an open and honest way to get all the facts on the table instead of this “wear them down and they will vote our way” approach?
ATTEMPT IN THE WORKS TO AVOID A PUBLIC VOTE:
Three different sources have indicated, the aviation department has some old bonding program they are exploring to get around allowing the public to vote on the airport. Remember, ordinance #140090, passed in 2014 after thousands of signatures were collected? It gave the voting taxpayers of Kansas CIty the right to have a say on any airport project.
HOW CAN YOU HELP: Call and email your city councilperson and tell them you demand they honor the ordinance #140090 as passed in 2014. Several thousand Kansas City voters signed the petition enacting this ordinance. Also demand Crawford and Associates be afforded the opportunity to present their proposal to the full council and the voting public. The city has paid for all the aviation department presentations, why not give an alternative viewpoint a look??
Citizens for Responsible Government
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The voters should decide all the key developments that are funded by tax dollars. Just to bad the voters won't get out and vote for anything. I guess in our fast-paced lives we all seem to have anymore taking a few minutes to vote on things is much harder to do over spending hours bitching about bad government all the rest of the time.
ReplyDeleteGet out and vote you nitwits and put an end to bad government.
This will probably go the same way as what happened with the Sprint Center, P&L District, and the convention hotel
ReplyDeleteThe Sly James Regime will do whatever it takes to undermine the voter-citizens to ram this farce right over the public.
ReplyDeleteFirst the Democrats want to stop a public vote on Trump and then they want to stop a public vote on the airport. The they don't want half the people subject to the E Tax to vote on it. Sounds like the libtards don't want anyone to be allowed to think, speak or vote. I wish I was a coon so they would be looking out for my rights.
ReplyDeleteI waited in line for over an hour and a half to vote in the MO primary. No, most people don't have that kind of time but we do it. We are the only developed country that has such restrictive time periods for voting. Many people think the challenges of voting in this country are intentional. NO ONE in this city wants a single terminal airport! We LOVE the fact we can get there 30 min before boarding and easily make our flights. I think left the the voters it would fail miserably, as it should.
ReplyDelete"First the Democrats want to stop a public vote on Trump and then they want to stop a public vote on the airport. The they don't want half the people subject to the E Tax to vote on it. Sounds like the libtards don't want anyone to be allowed to think, speak or vote. I wish I was a coon so they would be looking out for my rights." 3/19/16, 4:52 PM
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry but was a relevant, understandable point you were attempting to make. If not STFU.