KANSAS CITY 'CREATIVELY DEFUNDING' POLICE VIA ACCOUNTING TRICKS!!!

Credit our pal Super Dave with the "creative defunding' tag. 

And this report provides a bit of a confirmation of our previous reporting . . . 

TODAY KCUR CONFIRMS OF TKC REPORTING . . . KCMO IS PLAYING GAMES WITH THE BUDGET IN ORDER TO DENY POLICE FUNDING AMID THE ONGOING HOMICIDE CRISIS!!!

The snow removal gambit is just part of a bigger con . . . Here's a peek at the sitch . . .

"The budget proposal now being considered by the Kansas City Council allocates $280.7 million for KCPD. According to Mayor Quinton Lucas’s office, that amount meets the 25% funding requirement without exceeding it. In other words, $280.7 million is exactly 25% of the city’s general revenue, calculated as roughly $1.12 billion.

"Although the minimum funding level is enshrined in the state Constitution, the mathematics behind calculating that number is more complicated. In reality, the different components of Kansas City’s budget that make up the “general revenues” are scattered around the 700-page budget.

"And the city isn’t sharing much about what those components are."

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

Kansas City's Police Board wants even more funding for KCPD, so they're taking the city to court

When Kansas City's budget for the upcoming fiscal year takes effect on May 1, a quarter of its general revenue will be directed to the Kansas City Police Department, as ordered by a new Missouri constitutional amendment. The budget proposal now being considered by the Kansas City Council allocates $280.7 million for KCPD.

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