Rushed KCPD Radio Contract Crisis Sparks Disciplinary Action Against City Manager

MSM kinda buried the leade here but we've becoming local Internets famous (ugh) for digging through the trash of our journalist betters.

What's important for denizens of the KCMO discourse . . .

CHECK THE SEETHING HATRED AGAINST CITY MANAGER BRIAN PLATT AND OUTRIGHT MOVE TO CHASE HIM OUT OF OFFICE!!!

Of course he's incompetent but so are about 40% of the workforce at city hall . . . The rest are on break and only about 8 people working there actually perform the vast majority of all the work. 

We have to agree with Councilman Ellington . . . The deets of the radio service gambit are mostly political and part of longstanding tensions . . . But WHAT'S MORE INTERESTING is that the only thing EVERYONE can agree upon is that the city manager is at fault.

At least that SEEMS to be the point of this passage . . . 

Councilwoman Katheryn Shields proposed disciplinary action as a result.

"I'm bringing an ordinance for discipline against the city manager and senior staff that was tasked in bringing this forth in a timely manner. We should not be in this situation, our citizens should not be in this situation, to think the solution is just to increase the cost to the citizens is not a solution," Shields said.

Councilman Teresa Loar said she'd co-sponsor that ordinance. In the meeting Shields said that discipline could involve unpaid leave of between one or two weeks.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Delay on city contract could cost Kansas City taxpayers hundreds of thousands per year

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - According to Kansas City's finance director, City Council missed its only opportunity for $315,000 in annual savings Thursday. But some council members were critical of the late request that came in the form of a six-year $7.6 million contract that wasn't on the city's published docket for Thursday's meeting and are calling for discipline of those involved in the deal.