TKC BREAKING AND EXCLUSIVE NEWS!!! CITY HALL INSIDERS FEAR UPCOMING MASSIVE LAYOFFS PLANNED AMID $800 MILLION KANSAS CITY GO BOND PUSH!!!
While City Hall is asking for more money, they're also cutting employees and services.
To wit . . .
KICK-ASS KANSAS CITY INSIDERS REVEAL FEAR OF MASSIVE CITY HALL LAYOFFS IN THE WORKS DESPITE THE UPCOMING GO BOND CASH GRAB!!!
Here's the word . . .
"FYI — The city is preparing to fire 155-175 employees this Spring, and the city manager's office and budget office are trying to keep it out of the news. They think people will vote against the GO bonds if they know that many people are being let go."
Like it or not, these employees represent VITAL PART OF KANSAS CITY INFRASTRUCTURE and without their efforts and essential work, Kansas City residents confront fewer resources despite more debt.
You decide . . .
Pay more for less.
ReplyDeleteThat's pretty much the standard KCMO deal.
^^^^^^^^^^FTW
ReplyDeleteIs this more of that "shovel ready jobs" BS that Obozo was trying to push?
ReplyDeleteThe city is broke! That's why they have a full court press going to sell the bond issue. They need this money to pay existing bills. IIT will never go where they tell us. It will pay off otherbond projects they backed, streetcar, etc. The wheel spins round and round with Steve Glorioso at the control. What does that tell you??
ReplyDeleteFrankly, I'd be more inclined to vote for it if they let half of City Hall go. Why pay 800 million so that 5 people can stand around while 1 digs a hole?
ReplyDelete9:32, The Dump "says" he wants to invest in infrastructure, too.
ReplyDeleteThe Rethuglicans wouldn't approve Obama's plans because they said there was no money & the deficit was already too high, but now that the Rethuglicans are in charge it's okay.
Of the top five corporations in Missouri that receive corporate welfare money, three are headquartered in Kansas City: Cerner, H&R Block, and DST Systems. They account for $2.3 billion in subsidies, about 40 percent of Missouri’s total. Dont forget Burns & Mac who offer jobs in trade for tax write offs, unfortunately those jobs they offer ie. Engineering, architect, etc aren't jobs that Kansas City Residents are qualified for so after offering for a reasonable time, they outsource through the HB program and the tax payers, they get to pick up the tab that is taken from schools, human services etc etc.
ReplyDeletevote no, until a specificplan is presented.
ReplyDeleteCity Hall employees deserve to be laid off. Start in Public Works and work your way down... Sean Demory, Don Frank, Chris Hernandez, Sherry McIntyre and a host of others. Clear out the trough, now!
ReplyDeleteWhat kind of "corporate welfare money" do the fab 5 get? Be specific.
ReplyDeleteKansas City is going right down the toilet and it has been. Poor leadership, few workers really care enough to do their job. Wanting to raise taxes AGAIN with no guarantee of promises being kept. We are already paying for infrastructure and not getting it.
ReplyDeleteFire Department = BLOATED and CORRUPT. Start there.
ReplyDeleteThe take on Solid Waste then Public Works.
Layoffs= worse lousy service+ excuses with blame game. Not my fault. Gas lighting anyone?
ReplyDeleteFACT :
ReplyDeleteRecent Drive around KCMO / Jackson County Inspection Found this
Stadium Drive from 40 Hwy to Arrowhead Stadium , lotta TRASH along the shoulder/ City Right away
I-70 & Van Brunt areas to the west a lotta Trash along the curbs and city right a ways.
Front Street area and to the South of Front Street lotta TRASH along the shoulders of city streets.
Lotta old Vacant Slum Houses that have JUNK all around them and have been that way for at least 10 to 15 years or longer,,,,,,
Everything from Old couches, sofas, to just Trash, bags of trash, to Junk rusted out cars, houses in need of demolition.
House at Marsh Avenue & East 30th Street Burned quite sometime ago, Roof all caved in and sitting vacant with Junk piled all around it, can be seen from I-435 heading NORTH off 40 Hwy.
Areas around the VA Hospital dirty & trashy with TRASH littering the city easements and along the shoulders.
North Prospect Avenue and Nicholson Avenue , littered with Trash and Junk, which is just south of Front Street area.
Nicholson Avenue needs some work, often a muddy mess the entire street.
Spruce Avenue & Kennsington Avenue just SOUTH of I-70 & West of Van Brunt littered with TRASH along right away, can be seen clearly from I-70 as ya' motor around the Curve going East Bound.
Denver Avenue & E 30th street , LOTTA Trash Dumped and old sofas along the right away and city easement
NOT far from the Days Inn Motel at Quincy Avenue.
KCMO Codes & Enforcement Division, are totally "Inept & Incompetent" and completely "Unqualified" to do their Jobs properly & Effectively !
They want Higher Property Taxes ??? for what, the CITY has proven they can't handle whats been givin to them already thru out the years.
KCMO City Hall are like outta control "Crack Addicts" constantly wanting YOUR MONEY and then Never putting it where it really needs and should go towards the community !
Instead what YOU get is LIES & Rhetoric and piss poor Excuses from Officials at City Hall, just like Crack Addicts outta Control !!
Yeah... butt the ones that remain will get the $15 minimum wage increase. You see, it makes perfect sense economically. If you force employers to pay $15 an hour for someone that's skills are not worth $15 and hour, your choice is to either fire the unskilled employee and hope the remainder will pick up the slack.
ReplyDeleteIt's prefect. This little economic lesson was brought to you byTony's KC since 2015....
a lot of great comments, why is infrastructure now the priority, if they go line item with independently vetted estimates, but nobody wants to see the usual suspects line up at the hog trough
ReplyDeleteInfrastructure should be part of the normal budget, but Streetcar and Airport were more important to some special interests
^^^^^^Well, why not? Nobody is going to come and see our infrastructure, but the streetcar attracts 23 million tourists every day.
ReplyDeleteIt's 24 million
DeleteThe good news is the city wont have all those bros on the payroll fixing their pal's traffic tickets. Revenue should jump.
ReplyDeleteLay off KCPD Cops not City workers.
ReplyDeleteAgreed cut the Police Department.
ReplyDeleteAs usual Byron, you ignorant slut, you are fake news.
ReplyDeleteThe Obama Congress got 800 million dollars that they were supposed to spend on infrastructure, that they pissed away in their districts on pet liberal projects to assure reelection.
Moron.
Layoff city fd and pd.
ReplyDeleteThis is re assessment year so they want lay a double whammy on everyone?
ReplyDeleteThis is just another prelude to a bullshit con job by the city to pitch some kind of tax/revenue increase. It may take a few weeks, but I guarantee the scam will reveal itself and given the collective IQ of core Kansas City the con job will work.
ReplyDeleteNice comments, with special star for Crazy Clown.
ReplyDeleteKCMO long-term mismanagement means basic city services are a struggle to provide. City is under court mandate for violation of such things as sewer/wastewater, ADA handicap access, etc., due to failure to provide routine maintenance.
Parts of the city routinely go without basic clean-up, adequate police protection.
City Hall has bent over backwards to teach developers to do NOTHING without asking for generous incentives. Mayor/Council solicit contributions, and or jobs, from developers and those otherwise doing business with the city.
Look at all the TIF/SuperTIF/other programs that have grown exponentially over the last many years. It's admitted in the city budget!
Good Lord! Just review again the Power and Light District giveaway, the city building Burns and McDonnell a new headquarters expansion while generously donating to a Mayor Sly James essentially running unopposed, One Light, 2 Light, InterContinental Hotel, 18th and Vine, plus many many more lower profile projects.
drain the swamp in KCMO, too!!!
ReplyDeleteSherry McIntyre and Deb Ridgway should be at the top of the list.
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