
I don't know if it's retro Tuesday but everything old is new again given that TKC BROKE THIS STORY TWO YEARS AGO and now it's Tuesday "news" from MSM.
CHECK GO BOND CASH DIRECTED TOWARD OBSCENE KANSAS CITY AQUARIUM LUXURY!!!
Here's a look at the plan that local politicos will use to tout their reelection plans.
Checkit:
"The Kansas City Council will take up a resolution pledging financial support for a major new exhibit at the Kansas City Zoo. The city would pledge $7 million toward the construction of a $75 million saltwater aquarium at the zoo, according to a resolution scheduled to go before the council’s Finance and Governance Committee on Thursday. Council members Alissia Canaday and Kevin McManus sponsored the measure. Friends of the Zoo Inc., the nonprofit that operates the zoo, has developed plans."
Check today's update . . .
KCTV5: Zoo to announce plans for $75 million aquarium
KMBC: Kansas City Zoo has developed plans for $75 million saltwater aquarium
KC Biz Journal: Resolution points to splashy news for the Kansas City Zoo
Developing . . .
Kansas City MO's favorite pastime. Ripping each other off.
ReplyDeleteAsk Wagner about his road to nowhere using GO Bond funds. Project wasn't even included in the list of projects voters approved. Apparently Hunt Midwest pays better then students walking to school.
ReplyDeletewow! sounds great!
ReplyDeleteDoes money just drop out of sly's fat ass ?
ReplyDeleteCan we fix the damn streets first, man the zoo needs this but c’mon, this is complete B.S.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of B.S. I saw a city crew pouring tar in cracks in the roadway today and the problem was more of the tar landed outside the cracks than in them, this is just embarrassing, I have friends in town today and they said they’ve never seen streets so bad as ours and crews who couldn’t fill cracks even though they were three or more inches wide, thanks sLIE, thanks for nothing
I forgot the best part, they skipped right over the pothole that has grass growing in it, that’s what I call moving forward, skip right over the potholes, what a great city we live in huh
ReplyDeleteMoney well spent. Fuck the groids, we've given them way too much already.
ReplyDeleteWow, I hope this little project goes as well as the airport debacle is going.
ReplyDeleteWord has it that Snitch Glazer will be a featured attraction. Swimming with the fish.
ReplyDeleteToo bad the Zoo is in the HOOD!! If it was in a part of the city that visitors didnt have to pass through neighborhoods with bars on the windows to get to it maybe the zoo would have more visitors and could afford more improvements. The monkeys and gorillas love their home at the Zoo in KC, as far as the aquarium goes it shouldnt cost 75 Million to build, just build a big tank stock it with Carp and charge 10 bucks a hour to fish it - If you build it they will come and poor folk in the Swope Park area need to eat because a paycheck is too hard to work for. Then the hoodies complian they dont have a grocery store in the hood, I Get it, but ya cant shoot a place up and expect it to stay for long. Again build a big tank and fill it with carp and call it Sunfresh in the hood.
ReplyDeleteWhy a world class aquarium wasn't built in Union Station is beyond me. A perfect place to do it.
ReplyDeleteNice idea. I think it would draw a lot more people than Science City.
DeleteYeah, they roped us into paying that tax and then they mail coupons that anybody with a job can't use because they have to work.
ReplyDeleteYour headline from 2016: TKC BREAKING AND EXCLUSIVE NEWS!!! KANSAS CITY ZOO THREATENS TO SINK UPCOMING GENERAL OBLIGATION BOND VOTE WITH TRAGIC AQUARIUM SCHEME!!!
ReplyDeleteYeah that happened. You sure called it.
ReplyDeleteI lived in Kansas City earlier in my life...I'm happy to live somewhere other than Kansas City now...the politicians in Kansas City are and have always been amateurs, city manager wanabees....saltwater aquarium? these stupid sons of bitches can't run a lemon-aide stand...
^^^Then why do you keep coming back to a blog about KC? You sound like a retard. Either you’re a liar, or a fucking good for nothing loser with nothing better to do? Which is it? Go away, KC doesn’t want you either.
ReplyDelete^^^^^^^ @ 8:29 don't speak for me I have to agree with him, and I'm a K.C. native and have no plans to leave!
ReplyDeleteThis is wasted money, many people don't go to the zoo because of the crime and the bad area it's in. I would discourage any tourists not to go to the zoo or Starlight.
These City Council members are a menace to the City in so many ways. Their goal is to be to spend all tax dollars possible in their east side of town. Grocery stores, police station, 18th and Vine, The Jazz museum and ass associated waste.
ReplyDeleteI have been a life long democrat until I moved to KC 9 years ago. Not any more. As much as I dislike Trump, what I see in this City is every bit as bad...
^^^You sound really old! You haven’t been anywhere in decades. Many more people DO go to the zoo. It’s world class. Starlight is a tremendous place to see a concert as well. You wouldn’t know, you’ve never been and likely have no friends and hate music anyway. Do you even know what a GO bond is, or how about what day of the week it is? Why don’t you just stick to watching TV. This whole “everything sucks in KC act is as old as you are and just as boring. Night night now.
ReplyDeleteMan, you Russians sure do a lot of Intel on KC. I'm just trying to figure out why you say so many bad things about old people.
Delete^^^^Shut up gopher boy, you don’t leave the underside of sLIE’s desk
ReplyDelete8:55 the real eastside doesn’t get any money, the central core gets all the money
ReplyDelete^^Idiot
ReplyDeletean aquarium? trout?
ReplyDeleteLets put another $75 million in the 18th and Vine District. Maybe we can employ a bunch of folks to examine the benefits of Reed going to conventions to explore the potential for Jazz in America.
ReplyDeleteActually reading what Tony posted - the City is promising to pay $7 Million toward the Friends Of The Zoo's proposal to raise and spend $75 Million on Zoo improvements. And the $7 Million would only be paid if the FOTZ manages to raise the other $68 Million from private donations and other sources.
ReplyDeleteNot to downplay a $7 Million commitment, it certainly is a substantial amount! But I would like to see a comparison of that $7 Million to other things the City has spent money on recently, like... oh, I don't know... maybe Streetcars, or Pizza Parties for teenagers, or reimbursing Developers for Airport Planning, or travel, or Jazz Museums, or... (you get the idea, don't you?)
Oh, and maybe a comparison of annual Zoo attendance numbers, versus Streetcars, Pizza parties, Jazz Museums...
KCMO's new program is encouraging citizens to patronize Domino's Pizza because the city is hoping Domino's Pizza will fix the potholes for KCMO.
ReplyDelete^^DeBergerac here is the posted list of projects funded by the GO Bonds. http://kcmo.gov/gokc/first-year-project-list/
ReplyDeleteKey first-year Infrastructure projects include:
New animal shelter in Swope Park, $7 million
Spot sidewalk repairs from the Missouri River to 85th Street and citywide curb ramps, $7.5 million
Kansas City Museum, $4 million
Beacon Hill roads, $3.7 million
Paseo Gateway, $3.5 million
135th Street from Wornall Road to Missouri 150, $3 million
Prospect MAX bus local match for federal match, $2.5 million
Delbert Haff and Spirit of Freedom fountains, $1.5 million
Design of North Oak Trafficway, from Northeast Indianola Drive to the North Kansas City limits, $1.18 million
Starlight Theatre ADA improvements, $1.1 million
Broadway traffic synchronization, $900,000
Design of Wornall Road, 85th to 89th streets, $680,000
Paseo Bridge repairs over Brush Creek, $600,000
22nd/23rd Street, $1.2 million
Beardsley Road landslide, $75,000
Marlborough community infrastructure, $2.25 million
Maplewoods Parkway design and right of way acquisition, $1.7 million
how does painting bike lanes on amour blvd cost 700,000 is that 95% construction or consultant
ReplyDeletewho gets to stick that money up their ass
ReplyDeleteif some ladies want an aquarium, what ecosystem do they plan on pillaging the fish from or is it a rehab for ocean aquatic creatures first with rotating exhibits and if so is this the best place for that. How big are all the big cat enclosures, or other animals of the African Sarengeti. Maybe the zoo need to build an auxiliary site for the larger animals maybe on the plains somewhere.
ReplyDeletethe whole state of florida has a massive die off of turtles dolphins manatees and an array of fish, dropping dead from the US sugar industry and a decades old idiotic army corps of engineers plan. Hawaii no like u stealing their yellow tang. U ladies are fckn insane and will just have to get more involved than building a fckn aquarium.
ReplyDeletesomething ironic about turning the turkey creek into a firehose to the kaw.
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