Neighborhood Watch List:
Citywide ⌾ East Bottoms ⌾ Ivanhoe ⌾ Crown Center ⌾ Union Hill ⌾ Town Fork Creek ⌾ KCI ⌾ Barry Harbour ⌾ Line Creek and Northern Heights ⌾ Tiffany Springs ⌾ Shoal Creek ⌾ Waldo Tower ⌾ Countryside ⌾ Southmoreland ⌾ 49/63 Neighborhood Coalition ⌾ Boone Hills ⌾ Armour Hills ⌾ Foxwoods-Carriage Hills ⌾ Maple Park ⌾ Crossroads ⌾ River View ⌾ KCI & 2nd Creek ⌾ Prairie Point-Wildberry ⌾ Seven Oaks ⌾ Beacon Hill ⌾ Longview ⌾ Fairlane ⌾ Country Club Plaza ⌾ Paseo West ⌾ Indian Mound
Items to watch:
The Minority and Women Business Enterprise program is gone. The Council repealed it Thursday, adding veteran owned businesses to the replacement on the floor, and passed a temporary small business program in the same sitting. Items: 260690 and 260692
The Council put three canceled meeting weeks back on the calendar, which is what determines when the Royals stadium package finally gets heard. Item: 260720
The Royals stadium package and the ballpark district rezoning were held with almost no discussion. Items: 260704 and 260705
Transit funding came back smaller and from a different pocket. An $11 million committee version was held Tuesday; an $8.3 million version built from surplus revenue was introduced from the floor Thursday and passed the same afternoon. Item: 260722
Kansas City moved ahead on two more world tournament bids, adding language to make clear that Arrowhead Stadium means the stadium standing today. Items: 260663, 260664, and 260665
Vision Zero: The city doesn’t know how many intersections lack crosswalks, and Public Works was asked to price out putting them everywhere and to start where people have died. Safe Across Crosswalk Campaign Presentation [Ordinance 240987]
Tax Relief: the Westside property tax relief program has enrolled 322 homeowners and Westside Housing Org. says no participating household has been forced to sell over property taxes since 2022.
Transportation, Infrastructure, and Operations Committee
August 11th, 2026, 9 am
The Transportation, Infrastructure, and Operations Committee was attended this week by Chairperson Kevin O’Neill, Vice Chair Melissa Robinson, Councilmember Eric Bunch, Councilmember Johnathan Duncan, and Councilmember Lindsay French.
260700
Authorizing the Manager of Procurement Services to execute a term and supply contract with Arcwood Environmental, LLC, for Contract No. EV4375, Household Hazardous Waste Operation; and authorizing the Manager of Procurement Services to amend the contract and exercise five one-year renewal options.
Neighborhoods: Citywide
Sponsor: Director of General Services and Director of Water Services
Attachments: Memo, Presentation
Result: Keeley Golden, assistant chief procurement officer in the General Services Department, presented with Jessica Jensen, operations officer in the Water Services Department. The request for proposals was issued November 24, 2025 and closed January 7, 2026. The city received two submissions, from Arcwood Environmental and Clean Harbors Environmental Services, and made the award to Arcwood. The contract is $1,470,379.16 with an initial term of one year and five annual renewal options.
Jensen said the contract covers continued operation and management of the city’s household hazardous waste facility and related mobile collection events. The facility serves about 1,035 vehicles or customers a month and processes about 120,000 pounds of household hazardous waste a month. Arcwood provides the trained personnel, equipment, supplies, transportation, and technical expertise to collect and manage paint, solvents, pesticides, automotive fluids, batteries, fuels, and other household chemicals, and is responsible for screening, sorting, packaging, recycling, transporting, and disposing of those materials under federal, state, and local rules. In partnership with the Mid-America Regional Council, Arcwood also supports mobile collection events in 10 area communities, with four inside Kansas City each year. The scope also covers cleaning the facility, regulatory reporting and record keeping, approved emergency response and illegal dumping activities, collection from city facilities, operation of the swap shop, and a recycled paint program. Arcwood is the incumbent, and Jensen said there have been no issues with performance, regulatory compliance, or customer service.
Robinson asked how many households are served, how many mobile events the contract allows, and whether they are spread across council districts. Jensen said the count is of vehicles rather than households because people can carpool, and that staff verify identification and Kansas City residency at the gate. The contract covers 14 mobile events in addition to the one stationary drop off site, which is open four days a week. The permanent facility and the citywide recycling event at Manual Career and Technical Center are both in the 3rd District, so events are not scheduled there, and the four Kansas City events rotate between the other districts, landing in districts 1, 2, 4, and 6 this year. Robinson said public outreach is not part of the contract and that for a city of more than 500,000 residents the participation numbers seem low, and Jensen agreed to work with communications. Asked whether the city is having an adequate impact, Jensen said she thinks the job being done is adequate but that the facility is aging, is operating at about 150 percent of what it should be doing, and is undersized for the community it serves, and that a new loading dock was recently installed to make better use of the existing building. O’Neill confirmed that the household hazardous waste collection at district drop off events is covered by this contract, and that the 6th District event will be held in a Burns and McDonnell parking lot with an October event at Ruskin.
No one from Arcwood attended because they were out of town. No public testimony. Advanced with a recommendation to pass.
260535
Designating the honorary street name of “Jim Wright Way” for a portion of N. Delta Avenue from the south line of N.W. Barry Road to its termination to the south.
Neighborhoods: Barry Harbour, Line Creek and Northern Heights
Sponsor: Councilmember Wes Rogers
Attachments: Memo
Result: Held off docket.
Safe Across Crosswalk Campaign Presentation [Ordinance 240987]
Jason Walden, transportation director in Public Works, presented with two staff members on Ordinance 240987, which covers Vision Zero road safety audits and crosswalk compliance and was approved in 2024.
The ordinance directed the identification of 10 High Injury Network intersections and 10 High Injury Network corridors for road safety audits, and the implementation of a crosswalk compliance program. Staff described a road safety audit as a formal review of roadway and intersection conditions, including operations and safety, meant to identify potential safety concerns and opportunities for improvement for all users, including drivers, pedestrians, cyclists, transit users, and in particular vulnerable road users. Each location got a pre meeting with the audit team and a formal field visit, which in some cases took hours or an afternoon depending on corridor length or intersection complexity. An ordinance was required to amend the consultant team contract, approved in May of 2025, and the team consisted of Burns and McDonnell with Trekk Design. The audits were performed across a two month span last summer, between July 25 and September 23. Initial reports arrived in the fourth quarter of 2025, were reviewed across that quarter and into the first quarter of 2026, and are now in draft final form.
For this fiscal year, staff are targeting improvements at nine of the 10 intersections, with the tenth advancing for additional study because it involves railroad coordination. Staff are targeting improvements in four or five of the audited corridors, and the Ninth Street corridor design is being updated with audit findings folded in. Staff said they are engaging council district aides on coordination points for resurfacing, design updates for work already in process, and work that can be pipelined into the city’s Capital Improvement Program, and that improvements will be completed to the extent the awarded budget allows. Vision Zero quarterly meetings continue, most recently in March and June, the 2025 accomplishments report was distributed in February of 2026, and three meetings have been held so far to hone next year’s scope.
On the second half of the ordinance, staff described Safe Across as an educational campaign that uses compliance studies to measure changing driver habits and then uses the findings for social norming, paired with statue installations and a public education and outreach component. A compliance study evaluates the human factor, such as the ability and willingness of drivers to yield, and gives insight into a pedestrian’s comfort level at a particular crosswalk. Sites cannot be at signalized intersections or at high intensity activated crosswalk signals. They can be mid block or uncontrolled crossings, or crossings enhanced with rectangular rapid flashing beacons. Staff look for corridors carrying more than 2,000 vehicles a day, but not so much traffic or such high speeds that the assessment becomes hazardous for the staff conducting it. Ideally there are no more than two lanes, or a 6 foot median if there are two lanes in each direction. Each site gets an assessment verifying the crosswalk is marked, signed, and in good condition, done informally so far and formally right before each baseline study. There will be 18 sites total, three per council district, with two control sites and four variable sites studied each quarter on a rotating basis across fall, winter, spring, and summer. Staff said most of the proposed locations are on or near the High Injury Network.
The campaign’s signature element is the Mr. Walker and student walker statues, placed in high pedestrian and highly visible areas as a reminder for drivers to yield to pedestrians. The city has purchased and received 28 Mr. Walker and 14 student walker statues, and proposes installing up to four Mr. Walkers and two student walkers per district this year in two phases, starting with two locations per district, with candidate areas drawn from Mid-America Regional Council activity center data and further input invited from council offices. Staff attended Safe Across training at the Mid-America Regional Council in 2025, began regular coordination calls and contract work earlier this year, issued purchase orders to fabricate the statues in the spring, and developed locations over the summer. Staff are working with City Communications on a Kansas City branded Safe Across logo, modeled on the city specific logo Springfield uses, and are considering pole mounted signs displaying compliance rates. Official kickoff is anticipated in September, with baseline compliance studies in late September.
O’Neill asked the presenters to speed up as the room filled ahead of the next committee, then gave Robinson time for questions. Robinson said the majority of traffic fatalities are in the 3rd District and called this a life and death issue. She said she had just returned from Denver, where every intersection had a crosswalk and the pavement marked where drivers were supposed to stop, and asked whether Kansas City uses the same. Staff said stop bars and yield bars are a standard requirement of a painted crosswalk intersection, that most Kansas City crosswalks have a solid stop bar, and that shark tooth yield markings are used in some instances. Asked directly whether every intersection in the city has a pedestrian crosswalk, staff said no. Robinson asked for the budgetary cost of putting crosswalks at every intersection, and when staff asked whether she meant all intersections or only signalized ones, she said all of them. She asked whether crosswalks exist at locations where fatalities have occurred or that Vision Zero has flagged, and asked that those locations be first in line for implementation. Staff said they would guess there are fatality locations with no crosswalk.
Robinson said the compliance rate signs are a good idea but asked whether they are digital, and was told they are updated by hand after each quarterly study, making them a lagging indicator. She argued that behavior only changes when a marking is standard everywhere, comparing it to wearing a seatbelt every time rather than some of the time. On enforcement, staff said Public Works holds a routine monthly coordination meeting with the Kansas City Police Department, that coordination has improved over the last couple of years, and that the department has been supportive of Vision Zero enforcement, because engineering and education have to be paired with that third leg. Robinson closed by confirming staff would return with the cost of citywide crosswalks and with the prioritization of fatality and Vision Zero locations, and credited Bunch for his work securing the Vision Zero dataset.
End of Transportation, Infrastructure, and Operations Committee Agenda
Finance, Governance, and Public Safety Committee
August 11th, 2026, 9:30 am
The Finance, Governance, and Public Safety Committee was attended by Chairperson Andrea Bough, Vice Chair and Mayor Quinton Lucas, Councilmember Crispin Rea, Councilmember Darrell Curls, and Councilmember Wes Rogers. Councilmember Melissa Robinson, Councilmember Kevin O’Neill, and Councilmember Lindsay French also attended.
260698
Authorizing the Director of General Services to execute a one (1) year lease agreement with two (2) additional options to renew for one (1) year each with Regal Health and Wellness Inc., for the purpose of an office space at the Robert J. Mohart Center, located at 3200 Wayne, Kansas City Missouri 64109; and estimating revenue in the amount of $966.64 in the General Fund.
Neighborhoods: Ivanhoe
Sponsor: Director of General Services Department
Result: Ashley Wise, real estate manager in the General Services Department, presented with Juanita Singleton, the owner of Regal Health and Wellness. Wise said this is a new tenant taking a room at the Mohart Center, bringing the building to about 98 percent occupied, and that the organization provides community resources, health and wellness education, and leadership development. No questions, no public testimony. Advanced with a recommendation to pass and placed on the consent agenda.
260699
Authorizing the Director of General Services to execute a five (5) year lease agreement with one (1) option to renew for an additional five (5) years with Batliner Paper Stock Company, for the purpose of the use of a paved parking area, generally located on the south side of the Missouri River Levee and east of Olive Street, identified as Jackson County Parcel ID No. 12-640-03-02-00-0-00-000, Kansas City, Missouri 64108.
Neighborhoods: East Bottoms
Sponsor: Director of General Services Department
Result: Wise presented a renewal lease with Batliner Paper Stock Company, a recycling company off Front Street that leases a small portion of a city owned parking lot. She said the company has been there a very long time and has been an excellent tenant. No questions, no public testimony. Advanced with a recommendation to pass and placed on the consent agenda.
260704
Authorizing the City Manager to execute a lease, non-relocation agreement, development agreement, community impact partnership agreement, and funding agreement with the Kansas City Royals or an affiliated entity for design, construction, and operations of a new stadium, team offices, and supporting infrastructure (the “Project”) in the Washington Square Park/Crown Center area; authorizing the execution of additional cooperative agreements in connection with the lease, non-relocation agreement, development agreement, and funding agreement; authorizing the City Manager to execute intergovernmental cooperative agreements with the State of Missouri and related entities; establishing Fund No. 3459, the Special Obligation Downtown Stadium Bond Fund; estimating and appropriating bond proceeds in the amount of $20,000,000.00 for the purpose of providing the City’s contribution to the Project; providing direction to the City Manager on the funding sources for the Project and future debt service; authorizing the execution of additional agreements as necessary to comply with the directives of this ordinance; reaffirming the Council’s intent to waive the contract solicitation and Article IV, Chapter 3, requirements otherwise set out in the Code of Ordinances as to the agreements authorized in this Ordinance; waiving the requirements of Section 88-586-01 through 88-586-07; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
Neighborhoods: Crown Center, Union Hill
Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas
Attachments: Memo, Appropriation Sheet
Result: Bough announced at the top of the meeting that the item would be held. French asked her to clarify the actual date, since a hold of one week runs longer with no session for two weeks. Bough said it would be heard at whatever meeting is next scheduled, possibly a special meeting, otherwise after the council returns. Earlier that morning O’Neill told people waiting in the Transportation, Infrastructure, and Operations Committee audience that the Royals ordinances would not be heard. Held.
260705
Rezoning an area of about 68 acres generally located south of Pershing Road, west of Gillham Road, north of E. 27th Street, and east of Main Street from Districts UR, B4-5, and M1-5 to District UR and approving a development plan, also serving as a preliminary plat, to allow for a ballpark district. (CD-CPC-2026-00100).
Neighborhoods: Crown Center, Union Hill
Sponsor: Councilmembers Andrea Bough and Kevin O’Neill, and Mayor Quinton Lucas
Attachments: Memo, Staff Report, Presentation, Public Testimony
Result: Held alongside 260704, on the same schedule. Held.
260706
Authorizing the City Manager to execute an amendment to the Community Investment Agreement and Escrow Agreement with Community Builders of Kansas City, a Missouri Nonprofit Corporation, to provide for a one-time release of $525,000.00 to pay the cost of City infrastructure supportive of the Overlook Tax Increment Financing Redevelopment Area and the Offices at Overlook Planned Industrial Expansion Authority General Development Plan Area.
Neighborhoods: Town Fork Creek
Sponsor: Councilmember Melissa Robinson
Attachments: Memo, Committee Substitute
Result: Advanced as a committee substitute. William Choi, deputy director of finance, presented on the Offices at Overlook project near Chestnut Avenue and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. The escrow agreement created by ordinance 230977 requires roughly $1.6 million to be held over 12 years to cover debt service if financing gaps appear, and bars spending on repairs and maintenance over $20,000. The substitute allows a one time release of $525,000 for sewer work and relocation costs. That leaves about $1.1 million in the account, and the $525,000 has to be replenished through a future quarterly ordinance.
Ken Bacchus, chairman of the board of Community Builders of Kansas City, said Health Forward Foundation has purchased the building with closing set for the first week of September. The sewer relocation was estimated at about $1 million, but the contractor hit a mass of boulder under Chestnut Avenue that had to be drilled out, adding roughly $500,000. The sewer is finished and the building is complete except for punch list items. He called it the first building of a larger project with three or four more pieces to come, and one of the first buildings east of Troost Avenue to appraise for more than anticipated.
Rea questioned the funding source, noting two earlier ordinances put $1.1 million into the project from Central City Economic Development and that source seems more appropriate than the Development Services Fund. Staff said going back to Central City Economic Development requires a board process the council could waive but staff would not choose first. Robinson said returning to that board would delay the building sale. Curls asked about the Development Services Fund balance, and staff said it came in about $15 million above budget at the end of fiscal year 2026 on permit volume. Lucas asked whether that was housing permits; staff said data centers. Curls asked about the super tax increment financing, and staff said it is capped at $3 million over its life and has never been activated, so there is no increment. Bough confirmed the ordinance does not name a replenishment source and that the decision returns with a quarterly cleanup ordinance. No public testimony. Advanced with a recommendation to pass.
260707
Authorizing the City Manager to execute Amendment No. 2 to the 2026-2027 Transit Services Agreement with the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority to increase the contract in the amount of $11,000,000.00 to maintain transit service levels, for a total contract amount not to exceed $97,278,976.00; appropriating $11,000,000.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the _______ Fund; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
Neighborhoods: Citywide
Sponsor: Councilmember Melissa Robinson
Attachments: Memo
Result: Bough said a business session on transit funding was scheduled for Thursday and the discussion would happen there. A revised version was introduced from the council floor two days later as 260722. Held to the next scheduled meeting.
260617
RESOLUTION – Directing the City Manager to collaborate with area school districts, nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, philanthropic partners, and private sector employers to evaluate the feasibility of reestablishing the Exchange City educational program for Kansas City-area students and to report recommendations to the City Council.
Neighborhoods: Citywide
Sponsor: Councilmember Nathan Willett
Attachments: Memo, Public Testimony
Result: Bough said Willett agreed to hold the item and heard no objection. Held off docket.
260663
Authorizing the City Manager to execute a Hosting Requirements & Bid Proposal to host matches and tournament events of the Men’s Rugby World Cup USA 2031; stating the Council’s intent to provide funding for certain City services in connection with the 2031 Rugby World Cup if the City is chosen as an official host city; and directing the City Manager to include funding for required City services in the 2028-29 and 2029-30 annual budgets to cover City services, including but not limited to police, fire, traffic, EMS, airport, transportation, sanitation, and all other contractual obligations to support the Men’s Rugby World Cup USA 2031 tournament and all related events and activities.
Neighborhoods: Citywide
Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas
Attachments: Memo, Committee Substitute
Result: Advanced as a committee substitute. Read and heard with 260664 and 260665, then voted separately. Reid Day of the Mayor’s office presented with Nicole Robinson of the Sports Commission.
World Rugby has awarded the men’s 2031 tournament to the United States, and Kansas City’s final bid proposal is due August 31, with host cities expected in the first quarter of next year and the competition in late summer or fall of 2031. The city submitted Arrowhead Stadium as a competition venue and proposed four team base camps: Park University, the Kansas City Current training facility, Swope Soccer Village, and the Compass Minerals sporting fields. Unlike the soccer bids, this ordinance authorizes a single host agreement with no separate airport agreement.
Rea said the ordinances should make clear they mean the Arrowhead Stadium standing today, not a future stadium carrying the name, and Bough directed a committee substitute naming the venues for each item. Curls asked whether acting now ties the hands of the next mayor and council; staff said the rugby application is due in weeks and Lucas said there are clear off ramps because nothing here promises funding. Staff confirmed there is no appropriation and no cost estimate, only direction to include a request in a future budget. O’Neill raised the memorandum of understanding FIFA required guaranteeing thousands of hotel room dates, which he said hotels are unwilling to sign; staff said no hotel agreements are being signed now and US Soccer is leading the bid. Duncan asked what is binding, and staff said nothing, because the tournament has not been awarded to the United States yet.
Jacob Hobbs, a business representative with IATSE Local 31, testified in favor with concerns. He said about $2 million in wages and benefits came through the hall during the men’s World Cup, but that FIFA scoped out everything covered by sponsorship dollars roughly two weeks before the events. Work at the Liberty Memorial went entirely to their crews; stadium work did not, and some branded activations at Arrowhead did not go to equitable labor. He raised concerns about 1099 contractors flying in and out and asked for a stakeholders meeting as agreements are developed. Lucas said Kansas City taxpayers put in $14.8 million in local contributions for the World Cup while the next highest local government contribution was about $1 million from Johnson County, Kansas, and said a regional tournament should not rest on Kansas City, Missouri taxpayers alone. Advanced with a recommendation to pass.
260664
Authorizing the City Manager to execute a Host City Agreement with the Federation Internationale de Football Association (“FIFA”) and relevant organizations to be appointed as a host city of the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2031; stating the Council’s intent to provide funding for certain City services in connection with the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2031; and directing the City Manager to include funding for required City services in the 2028-29 and 2029-30 annual budgets.
Neighborhoods: Citywide
Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas
Attachments: Memo, Committee Substitute
Result: Advanced as a committee substitute. FIFA holds a congress in November 2026 to vote on the host country, with the competition in summer 2031. Kansas City would offer Children’s Mercy Park, CPKC Stadium, and Arrowhead Stadium as competition venues, and Children’s Mercy Park, CPKC Stadium, and the University of Kansas Health System Training Center for base camps and training. Rea noted several of those sit outside Kansas City, Missouri and asked who picked them; staff said venue capacity drove the choices. See 260663 for the rest of the discussion. Advanced with a recommendation to pass.
260665
Authorizing the City Manager to execute an Airport Agreement for use of Kansas City International Airport (“KCI”), Kansas City Downtown Airport-Wheeler Field (“MKC”) facilities, and ancillary services for the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2031; stating the Council’s intent to provide funding for certain City airport related services in connection with the 2031 FIFA Women’s World Cup 2031; and directing the City Manager to include funding for required City services in the 2028-29 and 2029-30 annual budgets.
Neighborhoods: KCI
Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas
Attachments: Memo, Committee Substitute
Result: Advanced as a committee substitute. The airport companion to the Women’s World Cup host city agreement. See 260663 for the discussion. Advanced with a recommendation to pass.
260688
Directing the City Manager to suspend application and enforcement of the City’s Minority and Women’s Business Enterprise (“M/WBE”) and Construction Workforce Programs; directing the City Manager to develop new business enterprise and workforce programs and report back on the implementation of said programs in sixty days; and directing the City Manager to initiate the process to have a new disparity study completed in five years’ time.
Neighborhoods: Citywide
Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas, Councilmembers Andrea Bough, Kevin O’Neill, Johnathan Duncan, Melissa Robinson, Melissa Patterson Hazley, Darrell Curls, Lindsay French and Eric Bunch
Attachments: Memo, Public Comment Letter, Ten Recommendations
Result: Read and heard together with 260689, 260690, 260691, and 260692, then voted separately.
Before testimony, Lucas moved the committee into closed session under Section 610.021 subsections 1, 9, and 11 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri. He said the Attorney General of Missouri had filed a request for a preliminary injunction against the city in federal court within the previous 24 hours, called it an ongoing effort to harass the city, and said state leadership is more interested in a stunt than in working with the state’s largest city. The motion carried.
After returning, Bough explained the five options: 260688 suspends both the Minority and Women Business Enterprise program and the construction workforce program, 260689 suspends the business program only, 260690 repeals the business program, 260691 repeals both, and 260692 enacts a replacement.
Ten people testified, at two minutes each, covering all five ordinances. Julie Wellner of Wellner Architects and Engineers asked the committee not to act until the disparity study is audited, since it is named in the state lawsuit, and said the numbers could be skewed by the airport terminal project, by the lack of certification activity during the pandemic, or by an inaccurate master vendor list. Ken Bacchus, policy committee chair for the Greater Kansas City Black Chamber of Commerce, said the chamber has met with the Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity Department for about a year and asked for more time to finalize recommendations. Mike Hughes, a retired city employee, asked the council to look at fairness across all city spending rather than construction alone. Gabriel Okafor, president of Alpha and Omega Electric, said the program helped his company grow and urged the city to replace it quickly with robust enforcement, because large firms spend a lot of effort finding ways around whatever program exists. Al Weiner said the city needs internal capacity in training, risk management, and marketing rather than something assembled in 30 days.
Joe Davis of Custom Engineering, with the Kansas City Society of Black Engineers and Architects, asked for deferral so stakeholders could analyze the ordinances. Leonard Graham of Taliaferro and Brown Consulting Engineers said he understands the need to modify the program given court decisions including the Houston injunction, but asked for at least two weeks. Amy Slattery of Slattery Architects, for the American Institute of Architects Kansas City, asked for a disparity study review separating the airport contracts and the pandemic period, and asked that the current program continue until the new one is in place so there is no gap. Cecilia Belser-Patton, executive director of the Black Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City, said a finding of overutilization measures utilization against measured availability and does not explain why Black business availability remains small, and asked that any new program keep disaggregated data, quarterly and annual reporting, separate prime and subcontractor measurement, dollars actually paid rather than committed, prompt payment enforcement, certification protection during transition, and graduation pathways. Quinton Gardner, owner of Elite Rule Control, asked the city to confirm in writing that federal Disadvantaged Business Enterprise rules still apply, to let awarded contracts finish under the rules they were bid under, to finish deciding pending complaints, and to set a size limit so small business actually means small.
The director of the Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity Department recommended adopting 260690 and a committee substitute for 260692 as a stop gap. He outlined a 90 day implementation plan covering outreach, system upgrades, and contract language, said a survey released the previous Friday had already drawn more than 70 responses, and recommended a 30 percent overall small business goal based on historic contracting data, adjusted contract by contract. Size standards would carry over from the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise personal net worth test and Small Business Administration revenue standards, and transitioning contracts would follow the same approach used in the federal transition in October 2025.
Lucas offered a committee substitute to 260692 adding compliance and self reporting enforcement obligations, and asked whether good faith effort notice could be modernized beyond trade publications. Robinson asked for the disparity study to be disaggregated for the airport and for pre and post pandemic spending, asked about an advisory group, asked for continuous rather than point in time data collection, and questioned the basis for the 30 percent goal. Rea suggested handling those in a separate resolution rather than amending a temporary ordinance, which became 260723 on Thursday. Curls thanked the testifiers and said their testimony was not falling on deaf ears. Lucas said the timing is driven by federal enforcement threats and a court response due the following week, and called the approach a compromise. Held off docket.
260689
Directing the City Manager to suspend application and enforcement of the City’s Minority and Women’s Business Enterprise (“M/WBE”) Program; directing the City Manager to develop a new business enterprise program and report back on the implementation of said program in thirty days; and directing the City Manager to initiate the process to have a new disparity study completed in five years’ time.
Neighborhoods: Citywide
Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas, Councilmembers Andrea Bough, Kevin O’Neill, Johnathan Duncan, Melissa Robinson, Melissa Patterson Hazley, Darrell Curls, Lindsay French and Eric Bunch
Attachments: Memo, Public Comment Letter, Ten Recommendations
Result: Read and heard with 260688, 260690, 260691, and 260692. See 260688 for the testimony and discussion. Held off docket.
260690
Repealing Chapter 3, Article IV, Division 2 of the City’s Code of Ordinances and terminating the City’s Minority and Women’s Business Enterprise (“M/WBE”) Program; directing the City Manager to develop a new business enterprise program and report back on the implementation of said program in thirty days; and directing the City Manager to initiate the process to have a new disparity study completed in five years’ time.
Neighborhoods: Citywide
Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas, Councilmembers Andrea Bough, Kevin O’Neill, Johnathan Duncan, Melissa Robinson, Melissa Patterson Hazley, Darrell Curls, Lindsay French and Eric Bunch
Attachments: Memo, CREO Recommendations, Public Comment Letter
Result: Read and heard with the rest of the package. See 260688 for the testimony and discussion. Lucas said plainly that this ordinance has the legal effect of repealing the program as it exists, and moved it without a committee substitute. Advanced with a recommendation to pass.
260691
Repealing Chapter 3, Article IV, Divisions 2 and 3 of the City’s Code of Ordinances and terminating the City’s Minority and Woman Business Enterprise (“M/WBE”) and Construction Workforce Programs; directing the City Manager to develop a new business enterprise program and report back on the implementation of said program in thirty days; and directing the City Manager to initiate the process to have a new disparity study completed in five years’ time.
Neighborhoods: Citywide
Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas, Councilmembers Andrea Bough, Kevin O’Neill, Johnathan Duncan, Melissa Robinson, Melissa Patterson Hazley, Darrell Curls, Lindsay French and Eric Bunch
Attachments: Memo, Public Comment Letter, Ten Recommendations
Result: Read and heard with the rest of the package. See 260688 for the testimony and discussion. Held off docket.
260692
An ordinance enacting the small business program.
Neighborhoods: citywide
Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas, Councilmembers Andrea Bough, Kevin O’Neill, Johnathan Duncan, Melissa Robinson, Melissa Patterson Hazley, Darrell Curls, Lindsay French and Eric Bunch
Attachments: Memo, Committee Substitute, Public Testimony
Result: Advanced as a committee substitute. Read and heard with the rest of the package. See 260688 for the testimony and discussion. Lucas moved the substitute including the compliance and self reporting standard, and described the program as a temporary substitute holding the place while the city builds a long term program with the community. Advanced with a recommendation to pass.
End of Finance, Governance, and Public Safety Committee Agenda
Neighborhood Planning and Development Committee
August 11th, 2026, 1:30 pm
The Neighborhood Planning and Development Committee was attended by Chairperson and Mayor Pro Tem Ryana Parks-Shaw, Councilmember Andrea Bough, and Councilmember Nathan Willett. Vice Chair Eric Bunch joined later in the meeting.
260694
Approving the petition to establish the Tiffany Springs Logistics Community Improvement District No. 1; establishing the Tiffany Springs Logistics Community Improvement District No. 1 generally bounded by Northwest 101st Terrace to the north; North Amity Avenue to the east; Northwest Old Tiffany Springs Road to the south; and North Congress Avenue to the west in Kansas City, Platte County, Missouri; requiring the annual submission of certain records; and directing the City Clerk to report the creation of the District to the Missouri Department of Economic Development and the Missouri State Auditor.
Neighborhoods: Tiffany Springs
Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department
Attachments: Memo, Petition to Establish, Continuance Vote
Result: This item is the public hearing on the proposed district. Bough recused herself, which left the committee without a quorum, so Parks-Shaw set it aside and returned to it later. Legal staff warned that without a motion to continue, the hearing would have to be re-advertised, because the requirement is to continue it to the next meeting and give public notice at the hearing itself. When the committee came back with Bunch present, staff said the applicant had requested a continuance. The motion continued the hearing to the 1:30 pm meeting on September 1, 2026 on the 26th floor of City Hall, with Parks-Shaw, Bunch, and Willett voting aye. Public hearing continued to September 1, 2026.
260695
Accepting and approving a grant award in the amount of $589,768.00 with the US Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) for Continuum of Care “Shelter Plus Care;” appropriating and estimating the sum of $589,768.00 in the Health Grants Fund; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
Neighborhoods: Citywide
Sponsor: Director of Health Department
Attachments: Memo, Appropriation Sheet
Result: Jonathan Antle, housing manager for HIV housing programs at the Health Department, presented. Shelter Plus Care provides housing for people with HIV and their families through the Continuum of Care program, with the local continuum covering Jackson and Wyandotte counties. Antle said housing is health care for people with HIV, because it increases engagement in treatment and improves viral suppression, which in turn prevents transmission.
The program was first funded in 2004 and has been renewed annually. SAVE Inc. is the project sponsor providing direct services and vouchers, issued through the continuum’s coordinated entry system, with participants paying 30 percent of their income and the voucher covering the rest. The $589,768 award is matched with $105,528 from the health levy. The anticipated outcome is 38 households housed, for a total of 47 individuals, all of whom also receive case management and housing navigation. No questions and no public testimony. Advanced with a recommendation to pass.
260563
Rezoning an area of about 87 acres generally located at the southeast corner of North Staley Road and Northeast Shoal Creek Parkway from District R-80 to District R-6 and approving a development plan, also serving as a preliminary plat, to allow for the creation of 200 residential lots. (CD-CPC-2026-00037 & 38)
Neighborhoods: Shoal Creek
Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department
Attachments: Memo, Staff Report, Presentation, Approved Plans
Result: Held until September 22, 2026.
260638
Establishing the Kansas City Data Center Transparency Task Force to develop recommendations regarding the planning, regulation, and operation of data centers; directing the development of policies to improve transparency, protect utility ratepayers, coordinate regulatory updates, strengthen workforce development, establish community benefit guidelines, evaluate municipal revenue options, and conduct public engagement; and directing the submission of recommendations to the Mayor and City Council.
Neighborhoods: Citywide
Sponsor: Councilmember Nathan Willett
Attachments: Memo, Public Testimony, Public Testimony
Result: Held.
260672
Approving a development plan on about 2.6 acres to allow for multiple commercial buildings on one lot in District B2-2 generally located at 9840 N. Cedar Avenue. (CD-CPC-2026-00067).
Neighborhoods: Shoal Creek
Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department
Attachments: Memo, Staff Report, Presentation, CPC Plans
Result: Genevieve Kohn-Smith of City Planning and Development presented. The site is the last undeveloped parcel in the Highland Plaza West commercial development in the far north of the city, next to a parcel recently developed with a child care facility. The plan places three buildings on one lot, which is what triggers the development plan requirement, intended for medical office use, fronting Cedar Avenue with all parking to the rear. The 109 parking spaces fall between the minimum and maximum under the city’s new parking ordinance. Landscaping meets code for street trees and internal parking lot planting, and the City Plan Commission recommended approval subject to conditions. A representative for the applicant asked the committee to advance and pass the ordinance and said Star Development Corporation was available for questions. No public testimony. Advanced with a recommendation to pass.
Westside Tax Relief Program Annual Report
Carmen Lopez Murguia, executive director of Westside Housing, presented with Joe Hood, director of strategic partnerships, Erica Galeas, director of compliance, and Michael Duffy, a retired legal aid attorney and longtime volunteer.
The program grew out of a problem identified with residents in 2019, when property taxes in the area rose 128 percent in Jackson County compared with 18 percent across the rest of the county, putting longtime homeowners, particularly seniors and low income families, at real risk of losing their homes. The council approved the program in September of 2022. Lopez Murguia said Westside Housing does more than process applications, working with homeowners on eligibility, annual requirements, delinquent taxes, and home repairs, and that the ongoing relationship matters as much as the relief itself.
Hood flagged one figure in the financial report: the $29,274 neighborhood support fee collected in 2025 is low because the county moved the property tax due date to January of 2026, pushing revenue into the following year. The program typically brings in between $325,000 and $345,000 a year. In 2025 it enrolled 322 homeowners, more than 60 percent of eligible households, and 73 percent of participants are low to moderate income. Some have seen annual tax bills fall from thousands of dollars to hundreds. Hood said no participating household has been forced to sell a home over unaffordable property taxes since the program began, and that this was a regular occurrence in the neighborhood beforehand. He called the current phase the hardest, because the households still unenrolled tend to be the most vulnerable and disconnected, facing financial hardship, health issues, language barriers, and title complications.
Parks-Shaw said the program was the inspiration behind the citywide anti-displacement program. Bough recalled being unsure at the outset whether a Chapter 353 mechanism could work this way until counsel convinced her. Bunch called it essentially a retroactive property tax redirection, said he had expected a handful of participants rather than this enrollment, and noted it is rare to get taxing jurisdictions that depend on property taxes comfortable with an arrangement like this.
End of Neighborhood Planning and Development Committee Agenda
Board of Zoning Adjustment
August 12th, 2026, 9 am
The Board of Zoning Adjustment met in a hybrid hearing at City Hall, 414 East 12th Street, in the 10th floor Council Committee Room and virtually by Zoom. Five members sat for the docket, with one participating by Zoom and an alternate present.
CD-SUP-2026-00035, 2 E 75th Street
A request to approve a special use permit for the expansion of a religious assembly use in district R-5, R-1.5, and R-2.5 on about 3.8 acres generally located at the northeast and northwest corners Main Street, W 75th Street, and E 75th Street.
Neighborhoods: Waldo Tower
Owner: Catholic Diocese of KC & St Joe
Applicant: Brian Dostal, ACI Boland
Council District: 6
Result: Genevieve Kohn-Smith presented the case for the St. Elizabeth Parish campus in Waldo, which spans both sides of Main Street along 75th Street. The proposal is a new one story building for church offices and gathering space, a new play field to the north, and added pedestrian connections to 75th Street and Main Street.
Because the parcel fronts Main Street, Walnut Street, and 75th Street, staff treated Main and Walnut as front yards and 75th as a street side yard. The building is proposed at a 20 foot street side setback against a 25 foot requirement. The rest of the requests are parking: a full deviation to allow parking in the front yard along Main, a setback of 22 feet 8 and a half inches against 30 feet, a full deviation for parking in the street side yard along 75th, and a setback of eight feet against 15 feet. Staff said moving parking behind the building would greatly limit the lot and push it against the residential neighborhood, and that all parking will be screened with landscaping.
Dostal said the project removes two out of date buildings and a parking lot spread between Main and Walnut, replacing them with one building and one centrally located lot serving both sides of Main Street. He said the parish presented to the neighborhood and had no objection to the City Plan Commission conditions. Asked about parking demand, he said the building is mostly used during office hours, with a 40 occupant chapel for weekday services and weekend overflow from the church across the street. No public testimony. Approved in accordance with the site plan and subject to the City Plan Commission conditions.
CD-BZA-2026-00095, 5421 Wornall Road
A request to approve a variance in a R-10 district to the height of a detached accessory garage, plus any additional variances on about 0.31 acres generally located at 5421 Wornall Road.
Neighborhoods: Countryside
Owner: Teel Edward G & Cynthia S
Applicant: Cynthia Teel
Council District: 6
Result: Connor Tomlin presented. The case carried two requests: a one foot variance to the separation between an accessory structure and the house, and a variance to garage height.
The Teels said the filed plans were wrong. The drawings showed a 1,070 square foot garage nine feet from the house, but the garage they intend to build is 936 square feet and will sit farther away, and they asked to dismiss the separation request. Board members advised keeping it on the table rather than risking a return trip if an inspector measures differently later, then admitted the corrected plan showing a 12 foot setback as an exhibit.
On height, the Teels said a flat roof would easily meet the 16 foot maximum but they want the pitch to match the house, which needs four more feet. Because the driveway drops behind the house, the garage floor will sit level with the basement and its second level with the first floor, leaving the structure behind and below the house and out of view from the street. They said they had spoken with every neighbor, including one to the east whose own garage is taller. A board member familiar with the neighborhood noted several larger garages and carriage houses behind homes there. No public testimony. The height variance was approved in accordance with the staff report and the revised site plan.
CD-BZA-2026-00111, 4500 Main Street
A request to approve a variance to the Main Street Overlay to permit wall signage on the subject site, plus any additional variances, on about 1.66 acres generally located at 4500 Main St.
Neighborhoods: Southmoreland
Owner: Twentieth Century Realty Inc
Applicant: Megan Arndt, American Century Investments
Council District: 6
Result: Liz Collins presented. The applicant sought two variances to the Main Corridor overlay to permit industrial grade mesh wall signs on the angled corners of the north American Century tower, for Avantis Investors and American Century Investments.
The overlay permits one wall sign per tenant with a customer entrance, at up to 10 percent of that elevation, and requires die cut or channel letter signs. Staff read the overlay to require signage on the same elevation as the entrance, making corner placement a complete deviation, and said the mesh material is not approved under the overlay. Staff acknowledged the signs are under the size cap at roughly 6 percent of the facade, but said the placement would create a detriment to the character of Main Street and could be avoided by mounting to the east elevation or redesigning to channel letters.
Arndt said the goal is to establish American Century’s presence on its headquarters building, that the current sign is under a 60 day temporary World Cup permit coming down within a month, and that interior signage at the entrance does not read as building identification. She described the product as architectural cladding transparent enough to let wind through and preserve interior views, with a structural engineer reviewing wind loading.
Board members returned to precedent repeatedly. One disclosed being a tenant of the applicant and said approving a complete deviation invites requests up and down the corridor. Another said the east elevation would not be a problem but the corners are, and suggested working with staff on whether a strategic placement there would avoid the variance entirely, though the material question would remain. Members said they could not evaluate appearance from the sample brought in, and one noted the ordinance language suggests wall signs exist to guide people to the entrance. The applicant requested a September date. No public testimony. Continued to September 23, 2026.
CD-BZA-2026-00112, 5428 Rockhill Road
A request to approve a variance to the amount of pavement in the front yard, plus any other needed variances in an R-6 zoning district on about 0.2 acres generally located at 5428 Rockhill Road.
Neighborhood: 49/63 Neighborhood Coalition
Owner: The Curators of the University of Missouri
Applicant: Jennifer Jurado
Council District: 6
Result: Continued off docket.
CD-BZA-2026-00077, 9435 Holmes Road
A request to appeal a Notice of Violation regarding improper screening of outdoor storage on about 4.38 acres located at 9435 Holmes Road.
Neighborhoods: Boone Hills
Owner: Monroe Parker International LLC
Applicant: John Roe, The Roe Law Firm LLC
Council District: 6
Result: The site sits at Holmes Road and East Bannister Road. Comparing 2024 aerial imagery with current conditions, staff said shipping containers now sit in front of the building, where previously the containers and stored vehicles all sat behind the front facade and would have been screened by the building itself.
A 311 complaint about the containers generated a zoning case in August of 2025, but the notice attached to that case addressed windblown signs, which the owner resolved. After it closed, a second complaint came in and the notice now under appeal was issued in March of 2026. The appeal was filed outside the 15 day window, and the board granted the hearing at an earlier meeting.
Staff said the code has a use group covering warehousing, wholesaling, storage, and freight movement that is subject to the screening requirements in section 88-425-09, and that the city, the Council, and the City Plan Commission have historically treated shipping containers used for outdoor storage as exactly that. If the board instead reads the operation as self storage, staff said the self storage rules require any facade abutting a right of way to be at least 50 percent masonry with metal limited to approved architectural panels, and no such plan is on file. Staff reminded the board it may sustain an appeal only if it finds the administrative official erred.
The owner’s attorney argued the ordinance does not apply. He pointed to section 88-15-01, which requires the code to be read literally and no more or less strictly than stated, and walked through the categories: not an outdoor work area, because nothing is processed or fabricated; not warehousing, because nothing awaits sale, distribution, or production; not wholesaling; not vehicle storage. On the remaining category he argued that storage and freight movement, written without a comma, is a single logistics concept rather than two separate buckets. He also said the section applies to property contiguous with R or DR districts, and this parcel is M3 surrounded by M3. He introduced the earlier notice, the record showing that case closed in compliance in December of 2025, and an email in which a city inspector said management had decided not to enforce screening at the location, then reversed.
Staff responded that the same use group appears with a comma in section 88-805-05F and called the difference a scrivener’s error. The attorney said the 800 series governs where uses are allowed while 88-425 governs what they must comply with. Board members pushed on both sides, noting the attorney relies on the 800 series for the outdoor work area definition while arguing it does not control, and asked whether storage is defined anywhere. Staff read section 88-810-1065, which defines outdoor storage to include materials stored in crates, boxes, or shipping containers. Asked whether the containers move, the board was told they sit next to each other holding personal property and stay put.
After a closed session, the board told the attorney it wants briefing before it rules, specifically on Missouri case law regarding the scrivener’s error argument and strict interpretation where a term is undefined. He asked for 30 days and was given until September 14 to file through Compass KC so the material can be attached to the staff report. Continued to September 23, 2026.
CD-BZA-2026-00019, 5 E 70th Terrace
A request to approve a special exception to the maximum height of a fence on a residential corner lot, plus any additional variances on about 0.15 acres generally located at 5 E 70th Ter.
Neighborhoods: Armour Hills
Owner: Hickam Katrina Lynne
Applicant: Nicholas Hawk
Council District: 6
Result: Dismissed.
CD-SUP-2026-00029, 5245 N Lister Avenue
A request to approve a special use permit in District R-6 to allow for a temporary laydown yard on about 3 acres generally located approximately 300 feet from the northeast corner of North Lister Avenue and Northeast Vivion Road.
Neighborhoods: Foxwoods-Carriage Hills
Owner: MBW Construction Inc
Applicant: DeAnna Brantley, Spire Missouri
Council District: 2
Result: Continued to August 26, 2026.
CD-BZA-2026-00048, 5218 N Randolph Road
A request to approve a variance to the residential accessory structures to permit a carport in the front yard, plus any other needed variances in an R-6 zoning district on about 0.54 acres generally located at 5218 N Randolph Road.
Neighborhoods: Maple Park
Owner: Knudson Don L & Robin G
Applicant: Brandon Kinney
Council District: 2
Result: Stephanie Saldari presented. The case was last heard April 22 and continued several times since, partly over quorum. At that hearing the applicant said the carport and driveway were approved when the house was built in the 1980s, and the board continued the case so staff could find the plans.
Staff found a stamped 2006 building plan for a rear addition showing a 16 foot driveway and no carport. Imagery shows the 16 foot driveway in 2006, the addition and widened driveway by 2008, and the carport by 2010. Three variances were before the board: a complete deviation to permit a carport in the front yard, a 40 square foot variance for a 240 square foot carport footprint, and a 15 foot variance for a 37 foot driveway width. Staff noted the board denied a front yard carport a block west, that other carports in the neighborhood are under investigation, and that nearby wide driveways never received variances or permits.
Brandon Kinney corrected the record, saying he had misspoken at the first hearing from notes because Dr. Knudson could not participate, and that the carport and driveway went in around 2008 and 2010. He said the city worked on water pipes at the front of the property six or eight years ago and laid asphalt there twice with a full crew on site, leaving his client under the impression it was approved. He said Randolph Road is busy, parallels 435, and has no street parking, so the driveway matters for turning around rather than backing out, and that topography behind the house makes rear parking impractical. He submitted affidavits from three neighbors with no objection and photographs of five driveways and 13 carports within a mile.
Staff said none of those addresses have variances or permits, and that one of those owners has already met with staff and appears likely to apply. Board members told Kinney the comparison may have opened a can of worms, recalled a case years ago where about 40 houses with front yard structures were heard and only one kept it, and said the board applies its rules consistently because a variance opens the door for everyone. One member separated the two issues, calling the driveway a safety question given speeds on Randolph Road while treating the carport as a different matter. Staff confirmed that attaching the carport to the house would make it part of the building, subject only to front setback standards. Offered another continuance to explore an attached design, Kinney asked whether the driveway could be decided separately, was told the case cannot be split, and elected to proceed to a vote. The driveway width variance was granted. The two carport variances were denied.
CD-BZA-2026-00109, 4718 NE Vivion Road
A request to approve a variance in a B3-2 district to the setback of a drive-through facility from a residential district on about 0.33 acres generally located at 4718 NE Vivion Road.
Neighborhoods: Foxwoods-Carriage Hills
Owner: Carol’s Tri-Property LLC 50% Int
Applicant: Jacob Dobbs, Kaw Valley Engineering
Council District: 2
Result: Connor Tomlin presented. The plan removes the middle building of a strip center just southeast of Gladstone and adds a drive-through that exits into the alley behind. The request is a 32 foot variance to the separation between a drive-through and a residential district, permitting 28 feet. Staff anticipated a substantial change to neighborhood character, since drive-throughs within 50 feet of a residential district are uncommon here, but said no alternative layout works on the site.
The applicant said a cannabis dispensary drive-through differs from fast food, because state rules require orders online in advance and the window works as express pickup like a pharmacy, with no menu boards or loudspeakers permitted, so queuing is not an issue. He framed it as accessibility, since state code gives disabled patients no way to obtain products without entering the building, and offered more landscaping if light spill concerns the neighbor to the north.
A board member asked whether the alley is public right of way. Staff checked and said it appears privately owned, which the applicant’s engineer confirmed, describing blanket cross access across the front and back. Board members said the site plan shows an ingress and egress easement, but such easements are often limited to trash and deliveries rather than commercial traffic, and the board should not grant something it lacks authority over. The chair also asked for documentation from the neighboring owner about headlights, noting the store operates about five hours after dark in winter. The applicant asked to continue and examine the easement. Continued to September 9, 2026.
CD-SUP-2026-00020, 840 N Montgall Avenue
A request to approve a Special Use Permit for a Gasoline and Fuel Sales establishment in an M1-5 zoning district on about 0.314 acres generally located at 840 N Montgall Avenue.
Neighborhoods: East Bottoms
Owner: Nmk2 Corporation
Applicant: Dana Blay, DBL Architecture + Inc
Council District: 4
Result: Justin Smith presented for Alec Gustafson. The site is in the East Bottoms within the Riverfront Industrial Area Plan boundaries, at the southwest corner of Nicholson Avenue and North Montgall Avenue. Under section 88-610-04, an existing gas station with a certificate of legal nonconformance may build a new structure meeting the design standards in section 88-347. That certificate application is still in review, which is why the special use permit is running in parallel.
At the City Plan Commission’s request the applicant pushed the building about six feet north and added a six foot wood fence screening the adjacent residential property. Staff showed a lighting plan with no spillover into the right of way. Two conditions were highlighted: the certificate of legal nonconformance must be approved before a certificate of occupancy is issued, and the permit runs two years from a temporary or final certificate of occupancy, whichever comes first.
Blay said the existing building has plumbing and electrical problems and the replacement will be safer, that the pumps and canopy are untouched, and that the result is a convenience store with a to go restaurant component. He said two neighborhood meetings were held and everyone who attended was in favor, and that the two year condition was the applicant’s own idea because permits take so long. No public testimony. Approved in accordance with the site plan, the staff report, and the conditions therein.
CD-BZA-2026-00088, 1829 McGee Street
A request to approve a variance to the sign standards to permit a larger sign, plus any other needed variances in an B4-5 zoning district on about 0.13 generally located at 1829 McGee Street.
Neighborhoods: Crossroads
Owner: Icg Realty Holdings LLC
Applicant: Infinity Signs LLC
Council District: 4
Result: Continued to August 26, 2026.
CD-BZA-2026-00102, 3350 N Holmes Street
A request to approve a variance to the sign standards to permit a larger sign, plus any other needed variances in an R-0.75 zoning district on about 16.7 acres generally located at 3350 N Holmes Street.
Neighborhoods: River View
Owner: Kansas City Area Transportation Authority
Applicant: Gabe Vogl, Rosemann & Associates, P.C.
Council District: 4
Result: Stephanie Saldari presented. As filed the applicant sought two variances: a larger monument sign at the main entrance from North Holmes Street, and a large wall sign on the retaining wall to the south.
Before the presentation the applicant asked the board to hear only the monument sign and hold the wall sign, saying they were still working with their architect on sizes. The board said it has not divided a case before. Staff and counsel offered two paths: approve one and deny the other, which counsel said would not prejudice a later application, or withdraw the second request and refile. The applicant withdrew the wall sign request.
On the monument sign, staff described a one foot variance to permit a seven foot sign against the six foot maximum in a residential district, and said the change to neighborhood character is anticipated but not substantial. Ben Kellerman said the site sits up a hill from Macken Park in North Kansas City, ringed by trees and shrubs that cut visibility, and that an 8,500 square foot retaining wall to the south blocks the entrance from view until drivers come around the bend. He said the sign would serve as a landmark and give emergency vehicles and deliveries a clearer access point, and submitted drone photographs. He clarified the pillar totals seven feet with a five foot sign inside the masonry. No public testimony.
CD-BZA-2026-00079, 12220 NW Skyview Avenue
A request to approve a variance to allow gravel in a proposed B4-1 district, and any other necessary variances, on about 23 acres generally located at 12220 NW Skyview Avenue.
Neighborhoods: KCI & 2nd Creek
Owner: Longview Ventures LLC
Applicant: Sam Malinowsky, SM Engineering
Council District: 1
Result: Continued to September 9, 2026.
CD-BZA-2026-00103, 9050 NW Prairie View Road
A request to approve a variance to the maximum allowed floor area (25,000 square feet) of an industrial use in a B4 district on about 6.8 acres generally located at 9050 Northwest Prairie View Road.
Neighborhoods: Prairie Point-Wildberry
Owner: Amerco Real Estate Company / U Haul
Applicant: Lance Scott, Cook, Flatt & Strobel Engineers, P.A.
Council District: 1
Result: Continued to August 26, 2026.
CD-BZA-2026-00089, 3501 Jackson Avenue
A request to approve a variance to the required rear setback in a B1-1 zoning district, plus any additional variances, on about 0.35 acres generally located at 3501 Jackson Ave.
Neighborhoods: Knoches Park
Owner: 3501 Jackson LLC
Applicant: Daniel Finn, Phelps Engineering, Inc.
Council District: 3
Result: Liz Collins presented. The property holds a former used car dealership building, and the applicant proposes reusing it as a neighborhood grocery store, expanding the footprint north and using the existing pavement for parking at that end.
The request is a variance of 14 feet 3 inches to permit a 15 foot 9 inch rear setback on the southern part of the site, against the 30 foot setback required where the property abuts an R district. Staff did not anticipate a substantial change to neighborhood character, because the rear setback is not being pushed any further than it already is. The only route to compliance would be demolishing the building or the portion inside the setback. Staff found the practical difficulty is not self imposed, since the applicant did not build the structure, and pointed to the code’s intent to promote rehabilitation and reuse of older buildings.
The applicant’s representative said they are only reusing the south end of a building that already sits inside the setback and are not adding to the encroachment, and that a neighborhood grocery store is a clear improvement over a vacant boarded up building. No public testimony.
Approved in accordance with the site plan and the staff report.
CD-BZA-2026-00110, 1302 E 26th Street
A request to approve variances to the infill residential development standards to permit a new single-family dwelling in a UR district, plus any additional variances, on about 0.09 acres generally located at 1302 E 26th St.
Neighborhoods: Beacon Hill
Owner: Bright Michael F & Christi L
Applicant: Joseph Rathermel, JWR Architecture
Council District: 3
Result: Liz Collins presented. The site falls under the Beacon Hill urban redevelopment plan, which staff said has no standards of its own for this situation. The applicant proposes a new single family dwelling with an attached garage and a driveway from the street.
Three variances were before the board: a complete deviation to permit a driveway from the street, since no other house on this block of East 26th Street has one; a complete deviation to permit an attached garage visible from the street, since no house in the context area has an attached or detached garage; and a variance to permit a garage door covering 54.2 percent of the ground level facade against a 40 percent maximum. Staff found no unnecessary hardship, noting that while many Beacon Hill houses have rear garages off alleys, the four properties fronting this section of East 26th have no alley access and the three existing dwellings there use neither driveways nor garages, so the difficulty is not unique. Staff added that denial would still allow a house to be built.
Rathermel said the owner bought the property from a family friend and wants to develop it for modern living with safety, security, and resale in mind. He said there is no alley access at all, that an existing curb cut already serves the property, and that few original Beacon Hill homes lack a garage or the ability to have one given the redevelopment there. He said the owner spoke with several neighbors who seemed supportive once he raised property values, though he could not say which ones. He added that as an architect he would rather put the garage at the back off an alley, and pointed to new builds with front facing two car garages around the corner on Tracy. No public testimony. Approved.
CD-BZA-2026-00096, 14501 Kelley Road
A request to approve a variance to the setback of a building for an animal service use in an R-80 district, plus any additional variances on about 13 acres generally located at 14501 Kelley Road.
Neighborhoods: Longview
Owner: Wurth Aaron
Applicant: Kevin Sterrett, Hg Consult, Inc.
Council District: 5
Result: Continued to August 26, 2026.
CD-BZA-2026-00106, 9550 Blue Ridge Boulevard
A request to approve a variance in a B2-2 district to the setback of a monument sign from property lines, plus any additional variances on about 5.39 acres generally located at 9550 Blue Ridge Boulevard.
Neighborhoods: Fairlane
Owner: Rediscover
Applicant: Andrea Shadrach, Gastinger Walker
Council District: 5
Result: Called as the last item on the docket. Andrea Shadrach of Gastinger Walker Harden and Elliot Lane of Rediscover were admitted by Zoom and sworn in, with Shadrach presenting. No one else appeared in the room and no hands were raised on Zoom.
End of Board of Zoning Adjustment Docket
City Council
August 13th, 2026, 2 pm
The session was attended this week by
Mayor Quinton Lucas, Councilmember Kevin O’Neill, Councilmember Nathan Willett, Councilmember Lindsay French, Councilmember Wes Rogers, Councilmember Melissa Patterson Hazley, Councilmember Melissa Robinson, Councilmember Crispin Rea, Councilmember Eric Bunch, Councilmember Darrell Curls, Councilmember Ryana Parks-Shaw, Councilmember Andrea Bough, and Councilmember Johnathan Duncan
Special Actions
260703
RESOLUTION – Expressing support for the Kansas City Streetcar workers unionization effort.
Neighborhoods: citywide
Sponsor: Councilmembers Kevin O’Neill, Andrea Bough, Melissa Robinson, Ryana Parks-Shaw, Johnathan Duncan, Wes Rogers, Lindsay French, Crispin Rea and Darrell Curls
Attachments: Authenticated Resolution
Result: O’Neill said he brought the resolution forward because the election for streetcar drivers to join the Teamsters was being held that same day, and that a representative from the union had planned to attend. He said the workers provide essential transit service, that collective bargaining gives them a democratic process to negotiate terms and address workplace concerns, and that unionization brings the middle class up a notch or two. He noted the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 955 has a long history representing transportation workers. No further discussion. Adopted. Willett abstained.
260714
RESOLUTION – Celebrating “the Mecca’s” contributions to our community.
Neighborhoods: Citywide
Sponsor: Mayor Pro Tem Ryana Parks-Shaw and Councilmembers Andrea Bough, Melissa Robinson, Crispin Rea, Johnathan Duncan, Eric Bunch and Darrell Curls
Attachments: Authenticated Resolution
Result: Parks-Shaw recognized the Mecca, created by Bump Jonas, who also hosts the Sprinkle Some Salt Podcast. She said it began because he saw artists and entrepreneurs who needed a place to be seen and connected to opportunity, and has become a monthly platform for musicians, poets, comedians, visual artists, and entrepreneurs. She highlighted the economic model in particular, since after basic event expenses the money generated goes back to the artists, and said the creative community is part of the small business community and the local economy. The recognition came after more than three years of consistent events. Adopted.
260721
RESOLUTION – Honoring Soileh Padilla Mayer, Consul of Mexico in Kansas City, for her distinguished service, leadership, and commitment to the Mexican, immigrant, and broader Kansas City communities.
Neighborhoods: Citywide
Sponsor: Councilmember Crispin Rea and Mayor Pro Tem Ryana Parks-Shaw
Result: Introduced from the floor. Rea called the recognition bittersweet, honoring the Consul’s service since August of 2022 while marking her departure. He said she distinguished herself as an advocate for immigrant and migrant communities and had been a steady force during turbulent times, with families coming to her building for a sense of security. Bunch, Parks-Shaw, Duncan, and Lucas all spoke. Duncan said she had helped families who could not otherwise get here to attend a father’s funeral. Lucas said he has met many consular representatives over his years in office and that she uniquely balanced the humanity the role requires, showing up at state fairs in Missouri and Kansas and at moments of both triumph and tragedy.
The Consul said she fell in love with the city within a day of arriving, that she was honored to serve the Mexican and broader Hispanic and Latino community, and that she plans to retire in Kansas City in a couple of years. She is moving to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to take charge of the North American general direction, and said she intends to keep Kansas City on the map in a strategy linking Canada, the United States, and Mexico. Adopted.
Regular Docket
260720
Amending Committee Substitute for Ordinance No. 250993, As Amended by Ordinance No. 260568, which sets the Council’s schedule for 2026, by reinstating City Council standing committee meetings and business and legislative sessions for the weeks August 17, 2026, September 7, 2026, and November 16, 2026; reducing the contingent appropriation in the General Fund in the amount of $1,000.00 and appropriating the same for the purpose of advertisement related to the updated dates in an outlet of record and general distribution; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
Neighborhoods: Citywide
Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas
Result: Taken up on first reading with the charter requirement for three separate readings waived. This puts three previously canceled weeks back on the calendar, including the week of August 17, which is the earliest the Royals stadium package and ballpark district rezoning could return. Passed.
260445
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE – Vacating the sidewalk right-of-way in proposed District MPD generally located within the area known as the Country Club Plaza; directing the City Clerk to record certain documents (CD-ROW-2025-00037); appropriating $5,000.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Development Services Fund (2210) for the purposes of public communication; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
Neighborhoods: Country Club Plaza
Sponsor: City Manager’s Office, Councilmember Andrea Bough and Mayor Quinton Lucas
Result: Lucas noted he was surprised the item was not already being held. Bough asked to hold it, and after discussion of when the council would next be in session, it was held to the week of September 7. Held on docket.
260611
Vacating an approximately 6,000-square-foot alley in Districts R-0.5/B1-1/M1-5 generally located 150 feet east of Lydia Avenue, between East 10th Street and East 11th Street and directing the City Clerk to record certain documents. (CD-ROW-2025-00023)
Neighborhoods: Paseo West
Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department
Result: Lucas said the applicants had expressed an interest in starting over, and heard no objection. Held off docket.
260698
Authorizing the Director of General Services to execute a one (1) year lease agreement with two (2) additional options to renew for one (1) year each with Regal Health and Wellness Inc., for the purpose of an office space at the Robert J. Mohart Center, located at 3200 Wayne, Kansas City Missouri 64109; and estimating revenue in the amount of $966.64 in the General Fund.
Neighborhoods: Ivanhoe
Sponsor: Director of General Services Department
Result: Taken up on the advanced consent docket with no discussion. Passed.
260699
Authorizing the Director of General Services to execute a five (5) year lease agreement with one (1) option to renew for an additional five (5) years with Batliner Paper Stock Company, for the purpose of the use of a paved parking area, generally located on the south side of the Missouri River Levee and east of Olive Street, identified as Jackson County Parcel ID No. 12-640-03-02-00-0-00-000, Kansas City, Missouri 64108.
Neighborhoods: East Bottoms
Sponsor: Director of General Services Department
Result: Taken up on the advanced consent docket with no discussion. Passed.
260663
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE – Authorizing the City Manager to execute a Hosting Requirements & Bid Proposal to host matches and tournament events of the Men’s Rugby World Cup USA 2031; stating the Council’s intent to provide funding for certain City services in connection with the 2031 Rugby World Cup if the City is chosen as an official host city; and directing the City Manager to include funding for required City services in the 2028-29 and 2029-30 annual budgets to cover City services, including but not limited to police, fire, traffic, EMS, airport, transportation, sanitation, and all other contractual obligations to support the Men’s Rugby World Cup USA 2031 tournament and all related events and activities.
Neighborhoods: Citywide
Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas
Attachments: Memo, Committee Substitute, Authenticated Ordinance
Result: No further discussion at council. Passed as substituted.
260664
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE – Authorizing the City Manager to execute a Host City Agreement with the Federation Internationale de Football Association (“FIFA”) and relevant organizations to be appointed as a host city of the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2031; stating the Council’s intent to provide funding for certain City services in connection with the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2031; and directing the City Manager to include funding for required City services in the 2028-29 and 2029-30 annual budgets.
Neighborhoods: Citywide
Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas
Attachments: Memo, Committee Substitute, Authenticated Ordinance
Result: No further discussion at council. Passed as substituted.
260665
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE – Authorizing the City Manager to execute an Airport Agreement for use of Kansas City International Airport (“KCI”), Kansas City Downtown Airport-Wheeler Field (“MKC”) facilities, and ancillary services for the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2031; stating the Council’s intent to provide funding for certain City airport related services in connection with the 2031 FIFA Women’s World Cup 2031; and directing the City Manager to include funding for required City services in the 2028-29 and 2029-30 annual budgets.
Neighborhoods: KCI
Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas
Attachments: Memo, Committee Substitute, Authenticated Ordinance
Result: No further discussion at council. Passed as substituted.
260690
Repealing Chapter 3, Article IV, Division 2 of the City’s Code of Ordinances and terminating the City’s Minority and Women’s Business Enterprise (“M/WBE”) Program; directing the City Manager to develop a new business enterprise program and report back on the implementation of said program in thirty days; and directing the City Manager to initiate the process to have a new disparity study completed in five years’ time.
Neighborhoods: Citywide
Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas, Councilmembers Andrea Bough, Kevin O’Neill, Johnathan Duncan, Melissa Robinson, Melissa Patterson Hazley, Darrell Curls, Lindsay French and Eric Bunch
Attachments: Memo, CREO Recommendations, Authenticated Ordinance
Result: Bough laid out the history. The city has run its Minority and Women’s Business Enterprise program since 1981. The Supreme Court’s decision in City of Richmond v. J.A. Croson requires local governments to make an empirical assessment of whether past discrimination contributed to underutilization, and the city has commissioned disparity studies since then to test both utilization and constitutional compliance. In September the city contracted with Griffin and Strong for the study whose findings were presented to the council. She said that while this ordinance repeals the program, the ordinance immediately following would adopt a replacement so the city continues working to ensure local businesses receive equal opportunity.
Duncan offered an amendment adding veteran owned business enterprises to the replacement program, which passed.
Robinson said she could not let the day pass without speaking, credited the law department for vigorously defending contract inclusion through repeated challenges, and said the recommendation to repeal followed from the study and the requirement that any program be narrowly tailored. She said the city has to keep collecting data, and that if a disparity is found the program could come back, calling it a bitter day for the community’s access to wealth in this city. Duncan said this is not a retreat but a pivot, and that the council will keep working to uphold values the city has held for roughly forty years. Parks-Shaw said she was disappointed and frustrated to be in this position but that the group was aligned in refusing to pivot without something on the books, and looked ahead to the next 30 days.
Curls echoed his colleagues and asked whether businesses owned by people with disabilities could be added alongside veterans. Lucas said courts have largely upheld veteran programs but that litigation is actively challenging disability related preferences, so it would be safer to explore that in separate legislation or through the city manager’s review. Passed as amended.
260692
An ordinance enacting the small business program.
Neighborhoods: Citywide
Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas, Councilmembers Andrea Bough, Kevin O’Neill, Johnathan Duncan, Melissa Robinson, Melissa Patterson Hazley, Darrell Curls, Lindsay French and Eric Bunch
Attachments: Memo, Committee Substitute, Public Testimony, Authenticated Ordinance
Result: As read at council, the ordinance enacts a new Chapter 3, Article IV, Division 2 titled certified small business enterprise, creating the new program, and repeals the existing Article IV, Division 4 small business enterprise provisions in their entirety.
Bough said the city has a longstanding interest in promoting equal opportunity in public contracting and encouraging small business participation in contracts, subcontracts, and incentive supported development. The ordinance establishes a stopgap certified small business enterprise program using objective eligibility criteria, commercially useful function requirements, and business size standards, and authorizes the director of civil rights and equal opportunity to write rules providing for self reporting of compliance by contractors and subcontractors. A floor amendment made additional programmatic changes to the interim program, which Bough said reflected the committee discussion plus the mayor’s self reporting addition, cleaned up by staff before passage.
Robinson acknowledged the volume of testimony asking the council to wait, and said the city has to have a bridge in place or contracts would move forward with no inclusion considerations at all. She said the program draws on identified best practices, some already in the disparity study recommendations, and thanked the Black Chamber members and construction workforce advocates who worked on it. French said it was a disappointing day, noting Congressman Cleaver had been at City Hall earlier and was instrumental in setting up the original program, and commended staff and the law department for quick thinking that avoided rushing permanent legislation without stakeholder input. Passed as substituted as amended.
260706
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE – Authorizing the City Manager to execute an amendment to the Community Investment Agreement with Community Builders of Kansas City, a Missouri Nonprofit Corporation, and an amendment to the corresponding Escrow Agreement to provide for a one-time release of $525,000.00 to pay the cost of City infrastructure supportive of the Overlook Tax Increment Financing Redevelopment Area and the Offices at Overlook Planned Industrial Expansion Authority General Development Plan Area.
Neighborhoods: Town Fork Creek
Sponsor: Councilmember Melissa Robinson
Attachments: Memo, Committee Substitute, Authenticated Ordinance
Result: Bough said the city authorized the community investment agreement with Community Builders on March 21, 2024, which contemplates an annual city contribution to a restricted escrow account maintained at $1.6 million, with the contribution being the difference between that figure and the actual balance. The city deposited into the escrow on June 30. With the project nearing completion, $525,000 in costs tied to relocating and reconstructing a city sanitary sewer line remain outstanding, and the ordinance amends both agreements so those infrastructure costs can be paid from the escrow. No further discussion. Passed as substituted.
260672
Approving a development plan on about 2.6 acres to allow for multiple commercial buildings on one lot in District B2-2 generally located at 9840 N. Cedar Avenue. (CD-CPC-2026-00067).
Neighborhoods: Shoal Creek
Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department
Attachments: Memo, Staff Report, Authenticated Ordinance
Result: Parks-Shaw said the plan places three medical office buildings totaling about 17,000 square feet on one lot, with 109 parking spaces provided against a 70 space minimum and a 141 space maximum. All parking sits to the rear, west of the buildings, with an interior drive connection to the lot to the south and pedestrian sidewalks connecting to the public right of way. Staff and the City Plan Commission recommended approval. No further discussion. Passed.
260695
Accepting and approving a grant award in the amount of $589,768.00 with the US Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) for Continuum of Care “Shelter Plus Care;” appropriating and estimating the sum of $589,768.00 in the Health Grants Fund; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
Neighborhoods: Citywide
Sponsor: Director of Health Department
Attachments: Memo, Appropriation Sheet, Authenticated Ordinance
Result: Parks-Shaw said the funding lets SAVE Inc. continue the permanent housing program, which helps people with HIV in the greater Kansas City area obtain and keep housing and move from homelessness to stability. The Continuum of Care grant provides rental assistance to homeless persons with disabilities, and this grant serves only those disabled due to an HIV or AIDS diagnosis, with participants paying 30 percent of household income toward rent and federal funds covering the balance up to the contract rent under fair market rent guidelines. No further discussion. Passed.
260700
Authorizing the Manager of Procurement Services to execute a term and supply contract with Arcwood Environmental, LLC, for Contract No. EV4375, Household Hazardous Waste Operation; and authorizing the Manager of Procurement Services to amend the contract and exercise five one-year renewal options.
Neighborhoods: Citywide
Sponsor: Director of General Services and Director of Water Services
Attachments: Memo, Presentation
Result: O’Neill said the contract provides comprehensive services for operating the household hazardous waste facility, including staffing the public access and operations areas, mobile event collections, product reuse, waste management and disposal, customer service, regulatory compliance, and general facility maintenance. The contractor also provides certain services in emergency response situations within city limits, and the contract is available to all city departments needing those services. No further discussion. Passed.
260722
Authorizing the City Manager to execute Amendment No. 2 to the 2026-2027 Transit Services Agreement with the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority to increase the contract in the amount of $8,328,910.00 to maintain transit service levels, for a total contract amount not to exceed $94,607,886.00; waiving the limitations established by the Fund Balance and Reserve Policy in Section 2-1954 of the Code of Ordinances; reducing previously appropriated funds in the Public Mass Transportation Fund in the amount of $6,910,205.00; appropriating $8,145,622.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Public Mass Transportation Fund to the Kansas City Area Transport Authority (“KCATA”); appropriating $6,910,205.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Street Maintenance Fund; appropriating $183,288.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the KCATA Sales Tax Fund; designating requisitioning authority; further directing the City Manager to include an agreement to maintain service delivery and routes in Amendment No. 2 to the 2026-2027 Transit Services Agreement; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
Neighborhoods: Citywide
Sponsor: Councilmembers Melissa Robinson and Ryana Parks-Shaw
Result: Introduced from the floor by Robinson and advanced for final consideration the same day. This is the version that emerged from the Thursday business session, replacing the $11 million committee version held Tuesday as 260707. Lucas said staff confirmed the floor version contains everything discussed, including the funding and the section replenishing the street fund.
Parks-Shaw questioned the wording of section nine, which directs the city manager to estimate and appropriate fiscal year 2027 revenue in the street maintenance and public mass transportation funds above what the adopted budget anticipated, with that appropriation included in the administrative budget cleanup ordinance no later than the third quarter. She said she read it as missing a word and wanted confirmation that surplus arriving between now and the third quarter would be returned to the public mass transportation fund. Lucas said he reads the second sentence as governing the requirement in the first, so the city manager is tasked with putting all revenue estimates in front of the council at the third quarter, and that the amounts trace back to the earlier sections even though section nine does not reference them.
Robinson added for the record that all of this is surplus revenue from the previous year end rather than money in the current budget, and that nothing is being taken from the general fund. Passed.
260723
RESOLUTION – Directing the City Manager to conduct a public engagement campaign following the adoption of this Resolution and the passage of Ordinance No. 260690 to solicit community input on the development of a new business enterprise program to replace the City’s Minority and Women’s Business Enterprise program; to establish an advisory group of relevant stakeholders to provide support and expertise for the development of said new business enterprise program; to develop a plan for the continuous and routine collection and reporting of data regarding city contracting and spending; and directing the City Manager to prepare and present to the City Council in thirty (30) days a report on the recommendations of both the community and advisory group, how those recommendations were incorporated into the proposed new business enterprise program, and a plan for the continuous and routine data collection and reporting on city contracting and spending.
Neighborhoods: Citywide
Sponsor: Councilmembers Crispin Rea and Ryana Parks-Shaw
Result: Introduced from the floor and adopted immediately. Lucas took it up ahead of the repeal vote, noting that although a line in the resolution is conditioned on passage of 260690, the public engagement should happen regardless.
Rea said the resolution carries forward recommendations that came out of Tuesday’s Finance, Governance and Public Safety Committee discussion, most or all of them made by Robinson. It requires public engagement with stakeholders during the 30 days the city manager has to build the replacement program, establishes an advisory group of stakeholders to provide support and expertise, and requires a plan for continuous and routine data collection and reporting rather than the point in time analysis the city has relied on. He said he ran the resolution by the director of the Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity Department, who agreed it was consistent with what he had heard and could actually be accomplished. Adopted.
260724
Repealing Ordinance No. 260667, As Amended; appropriating up to $500,000.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Housing Trust Fund, Fund No. 2490 from funds previously appropriated for conducting emergency repairs to 135 N. Lawn Avenue, 132 N. Lawn Avenue, and/or 148 N. Lawn Avenue pursuant to such aforementioned ordinance; directing the City Manager to continue to exercise discretion provided under City Code to address conditions at these properties that violate such Code and threaten public safety, including but not limited to considering any and all applicable enforcement measures available under the Code and exploring an agreement with the new owner of such properties to repair or otherwise remedy such violations while obtaining sufficient representations and warranties, including but not limited to tenant relocation and return rights as allowed by law from the new owner, and that permit City to abate any such conditions and secure protections necessary for the City to recover its costs therefor; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
Neighborhoods: Indian Mound
Sponsor: Councilmember Wes Rogers
Result: Introduced from the floor by Rogers. O’Neill asked that the appropriation read as up to $500,000, so the city bills the landlord for whatever it actually spends. The city attorney said the up to language is improper for an appropriation and would be struck, and Lucas pointed to the section covering voluntary compliance or an agreement with the landlord as where the recovery protection actually sits.
Rogers had not planned to seek immediate adoption but said the room suggested otherwise, and Robinson moved it, saying this is an emergency situation and delay is problematic. Duncan objected that a tenant union has been organizing residents at the properties, through the previous landlord and now the new one, and is not named anywhere in the legislation. He proposed language ensuring third parties with property interests are made party to or aware of any agreement. After discussion of whether naming the union created different legal obligations, the sponsors accepted a friendly amendment making the agreement subject to the city’s tenant bill of rights. Robinson noted the existing section three language already covers tenant relocation and return rights. Passed as amended. Willett voted no.
End of Council Agenda
Dan Baldwin is the author of This Week at City Hall, a current Urban Planning & Design student at UMKC, a veteran, former Kansas Realtor, a political activist & organizer, and local musician. Dan is passionate about building a better future through policy design and how it interacts with our built environment and lived experiences and is confident that his time as the Center for Neighborhood’s intern will help him grow in those passions and be an opportunity for communal growth as well.
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