Kansas City Fights For New City Manager As Contract Expires

Behind the scenes, there's already a fight for the new city manager.

Apparently, local news hasn't noticed or reported that Brian Platt's contract expires soon.

How soon?

So soon that there's a great deal of posturing, push back and maneuvering about the new boss. 

Accordingly . . . We humbly ask . . .

WILL BRIAN PLATT KEEP HIS JOB OR DID HE ACCIDENTALLY HIRE HIS NEW REPLACEMENT?!?!

COULD PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR MICHAEL SHAW EARN THE TOP JOB?!?

All of this drama comes by way of an unreported ordinance that keeps getting pushed back and forth worse than a pickleball . . . Here's just a taste of what we know right now . . .

"As for ordinance 230741 that splits the City Planning’s lucrative permitting business and places part of the biz into the powerful Michael Shaw’s Public Works department . . . Well, the Council held that ordinance yet AGAIN. What’s the holdup?

"Are other Council folks hesitant to amend the Code of Ordinances to split up the vital permitting business?"

Now . . . 

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- Public Works Director Michael Shaw as the new city manager would make SO MANY PEOPLE MAD that is just might happen. Complaints about his lack of an engineering degree would fade and people could start throwing more productive pothole insults his way. 

- Bright side . . . Mr. Shaw would have the freedom & skill to fire just about anybody he wanted!!!

- Like it or not, renewing Brian Platt's contract is an uphill battle and East side leaders are adamantly opposed to keeping the guy around even if his working relationship with Mayor Q is one of the most amicable KCMO has ever witnessed. 

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