SHOCK!!! INSIDER: KANSAS CITY BUSTED $1.7 BILLION BUDGET APPROVED AMID CONFUSION, SCHEMING & CORONAVIRUS!!!



Like the rest of the nation, Kansas City finances are taking a historic hit from the coronavirus pandemic that will impact how this cowtown conducts business far into the future.

However and thanks to KICK-ASS KANSAS CITY INSIDERS . . .We notice the local political leadership struggled to understand the new financial reality . . .

CONFUSION REIGNED DURING KANSAS CITY BUDGET DISCUSSIONS AS COUNCIL STRUGGLED TO ADJUST TO CHANGES!!!

To be fair, there was an important small-biz relief effort passed along with a few worthwhile considerations for residents coping with the pandemic.

But the sausage-making of the budget was hard to watch . . . More on that later as we share INSIDE WORD from denizens of our blog community:

"What stood out was the way the council haggled over things that should have been agreed upon waaaayy before this session and vote.

"The Mayor should have "worked the room" and made sure everyone was on the same page. That obviously didn't happen.

"At one point first District Councilman Kevin O'Neill threw up his hands and said "I don't even know what I'm voting on!" and the mayor had to go back and recap all of the amendments for him.


"Of course 3 & 4 District council members were jockeying for their own special pork projects . . .

"There were several 7-6, 9-4 votes on amendments until the budget was finally passed."

Yet again . . .



This budget marks nearly a decade of Kansas City "structurally unbalanced" financial documents that rely on rising taxes and revenues to keep City Hall afloat. This time around global economic distress should've factored into the economic plan. But it didn't . . .

Further Reading:

KCTV5: City council approves budget, Mayor Lucas' small business relief fund

KCUR: "With many businesses closed under the metro-wide stay-at-home order, the city will almost certainly collect less revenue in sales and earning taxes. Hotels and restaurants have seen sales plummet in recent weeks, which means those special taxes will also decline."

MCT: City Council passes city budget, Small Business Emergency Relief Fund, E-Tax deadline extension

Accordingly . . .



At some point in the very near future, Kansas City is going to have to make tough decisions about municipal priorities and we only hope that this global crisis provides a teachable moment regarding continued investment in tourism over infrastructure.

You decide . . .

Comments

  1. Anonymous3/27/20, 9:51 AM

    KC looks like it's waiting on that stimulus check like everybody else. Too bad the only plan is to spend it on more parties for the Summer.

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    1. Another Midtown Mom3/27/20, 9:52 AM

      Let's hope not! LOL!

      As for O'Neil. I don't think it's a bad thing he admitted being confused. Better he ask some questions than vote on something he didn't understand. Kevin has always been a very smart man and I think he did the right thing looking for clarification.

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  2. Anonymous3/27/20, 9:53 AM

    KC wont' learn from its mistakes. We think parties are infrastructure. This shut down is only a pause. Right after this week keep on with our "momentum" in the direction of bankruptcy.

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  3. Anonymous3/27/20, 10:15 AM

    The city's bankrupt. It's that simple. The so called Renaissance was just a hallucination.

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  4. Hyperblogal3/27/20, 10:20 AM

    The income stream should already be showing signs of decay....better to start with bare bones budget and add things if possible.

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  5. Anonymous3/27/20, 10:59 AM

    The Urban agenda needs to be scrutinized closely. These are times when all non-essential expenses need to be eliminated as the conservation of cash is key.

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  6. Anonymous3/27/20, 11:20 AM

    Free bus fares will solve everything.

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  7. Anonymous3/27/20, 11:21 AM

    Not even Sly would call our budget situation FROSTY.

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  8. Anonymous3/27/20, 11:40 AM

    Haiku from Wuhan Wanda:

    Dog go bark, bark !
    I eat dog !
    No more bark bark!

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  9. Anonymous3/27/20, 1:23 PM

    You gotta pass it to see what’s in it! Hahahahaha!

    It’s good to be a Democrat!

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  10. Byron Funkhouser3/27/20, 1:28 PM

    ^^Trump says inane, nonsensical stuff, everyday.

    When he's not straight up lying.

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  11. Anonymous3/27/20, 1:31 PM

    No, 11:40, a Haiku is three lines, but they consist of…
    5 syllables,
    7 syllables,
    5 syllables.

    What you continuously post are not Haiku,
    each of them is a Clustafu!

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  12. Anonymous3/27/20, 2:26 PM

    Hey 11:40

    Bad dog go bark bark
    Stupid me like to eat dog
    Now no more bark bark

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  13. Anonymous3/27/20, 3:08 PM

    Looks like we need another "special tax".

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  14. Anonymous3/27/20, 3:15 PM

    Hey blieron, nobody believes anything you say so.....

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  15. Anonymous3/27/20, 3:18 PM

    1:23 told the truth and that upset the poor degenerate leftist Byron, the truth hurts him deeply!

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  16. Anonymous3/27/20, 3:53 PM

    Municipal bankruptcy filings are permitted under the Federal Bankruptcy laws!

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  17. Anonymous3/27/20, 4:46 PM

    But where are the clowns?
    There ought to be clowns.
    Don't bother;
    they're here!
    And how do so many of them fit into that little car at 12th and Oak?

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  18. Waiting patiently3/27/20, 4:49 PM

    Does this mean the feds will finally pick up Cleaver, Sly, Modest Miles and Reed?

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  19. Anonymous3/27/20, 5:19 PM

    All the smart city bullshit is not essential either.

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  20. Anonymous3/27/20, 5:20 PM

    ^^^ why does anyone care what he thinks is beyond me, the dude is just as senile as creepy joe, he needs to shut up and retire already.... with his seven million in investments that he made while on the finance committee.....

    I’m sure Bank of America is watching

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  21. Anonymous3/27/20, 5:23 PM

    Do we have enough money for Open Spaces again? Can we take the money set aside to fix the streets?

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  22. Springheel3/27/20, 6:59 PM

    What is money ? It is only tangible when defined. You can print paper the same way you can kick the can down the road. Somebody has to pick it up. You can translate money as "labor" and that kinda works, as even the United Nations defines human life as a "natural resource". When you start dumbing down what constitutes value- be it gold-labor-holdings, etc.- this us what de- values what we think of as "traditional values". That system has fallen apart many, many, many times over the past, always because of an economic system of fiat currency that slowly moved away from the truth of solid gold. Personal responsibility or "I am only responsible for my own problems or accidents and disease" is a fundamental tenet of the closest we will come to Utopia. This virus should be moving us closer, but instead, has been siezed upon by the insurance and socialist state to drastically move us further into something worse than Marxism.

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  23. TKC Reader3/27/20, 11:57 PM

    EXCELLENT comment Springheel. Very intelligent and right on the money, so to speak.

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