Neighborhood Watch List:
City Wide ⌾ Tiffany Springs ⌾ KCI ⌾ Shoal Creek ⌾ Gashland ⌾ East Bottoms ⌾ Indian Mound ⌾ West Bottoms ⌾ Crown Center ⌾ Union Hill ⌾ Hospital Hill ⌾ Broadway Gillham ⌾ Ivanhoe ⌾ Prospect Avenue Corridor ⌾ Marlborough Heights 18th and Vine / Downtown East
Items to watch:
Costco got its business center conversion at Linwood and Gillham, 8 to 2, trading the tire center, food court, clothing, and some alcohol sales for a pharmacy that stays open at least a year. Item: 260661
The Royals stadium package landed from the floor with no docket notice: a lease, development and funding agreements, a new bond fund, $20 million from the city, and a companion 68-acre ballpark district rezoning, all sent to Finance. Items: 260704 and 260705
The Minority & Women Business Enterprise package, five ordinances suspending or repealing the program, was held until August 11 without a word of debate. Items: 260688, 260689, 260690, 260691, and 260692
The new jail has no opening date, no certificate of occupancy, and an unsigned medical contract that needs 90 days after signature before anyone can stay overnight. Jail Update
Wheatley-Provident Hospital got $570,000 in sidewalk, water, and sewer money to come back as a bioscience hub, with Robinson recusing herself over her employer’s involvement in the item. Items: 260686 and 260687
The vacant property fee question moved to April 6, 2027, pushing the whole scheme back more than a year. Item: 260498
KC Water spent about $6.5 million across three contracts and admitted resurfacing after water main work can take six months against a one-month target. Items: 260669, 260670, and 260673
Transportation, Infrastructure, and Operations Committee
August 4th, 2026, 9 am
The Transportation, Infrastructure, and Operations Committee was attended this week by Chairperson Kevin O’Neill, Councilmember Eric Bunch, Councilmember Johnathan Duncan, and Vice Chair Melissa Robinson, who joined online.
260669
Authorizing the Director of Water Services to execute a $2,442,330.00 construction contract with Kissick Construction Company, Inc., for the Water Main Replacement in the Area of Troost Avenue to Brooklyn Avenue, E. 83rd Street to E. 85th Street project; authorizing a maximum expenditure of $2,686,563.00; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
Neighborhoods: Marlborough Heights
Sponsor: Director of Water Services Department
Attachments: Memo, Presentation
Result: David Boyer, chief engineering officer at KC Water, presented with the engineering section head for water distribution. The project replaces roughly 5,455 linear feet of 4-inch, 6-inch, and 8-inch break-prone cast iron pipe with 6-inch, 8-inch, and 12-inch ductile iron pipe. The contract was advertised for bid and Kissick came in as the lowest responsive, responsible bidder. Boyer described it as project 3 of 10 slated for fiscal year 2027, and said three had been completed so far. Public engagement will include an information sheet on the KC Water project webpage, a virtual preconstruction public meeting announced by postcard with a QR code to affected customers, and a recording posted online afterward. The contractor will notify customers before traffic disruptions and brief water outages. The Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity Department (CREO) approved the contract utilization plan on July 20 at 11 percent minority business enterprise and 11 percent women business enterprise participation, with TWS Trucking as the minority firm and EJ and Sons Construction as the women-owned firm. Bunch raised recent water main work on Gillham, where the cycle track at 36th Street was not restored, the crosswalk still needs to be fixed, and flex posts were not replaced. He then asked about resurfacing delays after water main work, citing 49th Street and Southwest Trafficway. The water services director said the current maximum is six months and the goal is under one month, and that the delay comes from waiting to mobilize resurfacing contractors once rather than repeatedly, because each mobilization carries additional charges. Boyer added that segments get a concrete interim surface, which is durable but not the final product, and that KC Water is working with Public Works to move to tracking and resurfacing segment by segment within a month of completion.
O’Neill also asked for an update on water system cybersecurity after roughly 30 community water systems in Minnesota were targeted on July 26 and 27. The director said the industry has federal and industry monitoring layers covering both information technology and operational technology, that standards have changed, and that he will attend a water security summit in Denver on August 20 and report back.
No one from Kissick appeared. No public testimony. Advanced with a recommendation to pass.
260670
Authorizing the Manager of Procurement Services to execute a $2,800,000.00 facility repair & maintenance contract with Lippert Mechanical Services LLC, for the HVAC Preventative Maintenance & Repair project; authorizing four successive one-year renewal options with further City Council approval; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
Neighborhoods: City Wide
Sponsor: Director of Water Services Department
Attachments: Memo, Presentation
Result: Boyer presented. The contract covers heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems across more than 110 KC Water facilities, including one water treatment plant, six wastewater treatment plants, more than 18 water pump stations, 63 sewage pump stations, various flood pump stations, and administrative buildings. Boyer showed photographs of the range of systems involved and said maintaining and repairing them takes specialized knowledge. The contract was publicly advertised and drew two bids, with Lippert the lowest responsive, responsible bidder. The contract utilization plan came in at 12 percent minority business enterprise and 12 percent women business enterprise participation. A representative from Lippert attended. No questions, 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.
Attachments: Memo
Sponsor: Councilmember Wes Rogers
Result: Held two weeks.
260673
Authorizing the Director of Water Services to execute a $1,300,000.00 professional, specialized or technical services contract with Pure Technologies U.S. dba Wachs Water Services, for the Hydrant and Water Valve Assessment, Management and Mapping project; and authorizing five successive one-year renewal options with further City Council approval.
Neighborhoods: City Wide
Sponsor: Director of Water Services Department
Attachments: Memo, Presentation
Result: Boyer presented. The contract covers hydrant and valve assessment, with the contractor handling roughly one eighth of the city’s hydrants each year. Crews exercise and flush each hydrant and collect data parameters that feed a logging system KC Water uses to analyze system performance. The contractor also touches about one eighth of the valve system annually, recording data such as the number of turns and making in place repairs. Boyer said replacing the operating nut or other valve parts in place extends the life of the asset and cuts repair costs because no excavation is required, and that the contractor has specialized tools for the work. Minority and women business enterprise goals are set at 15 percent and 15 percent, with SE3 Group on the minority owned side and J&J Survey on the women owned side. Representatives from Wachs attended. No questions, no public testimony. Advanced with a recommendation to pass.
260675
Reducing appropriations in the Capital Improvements Sales Tax Fund by $4,000,000.00 from District 1 Project Holding; appropriating $4,000,000.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Capital Improvements Sales Tax Fund for construction of Barry and Indiana Intersection and Staley High- Northeast Shoal Creek Parkway; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
Neighborhoods: Shoal Creek, Gashland
Sponsor: Director of Public Works
Attachments: Memo
Result: Public Works capital projects staff presented with a project manager. The appropriation funds two Northland projects. Northeast Shoal Creek Parkway runs from the roundabout at N. Woodland Avenue east to Northeast 108th Street, in front of Staley High School, and includes converting the intersection at Northeast Staley Road and what staff identified as Falcon Drive into a T intersection. Staff said the change is for safety and that there have been a lot of accidents there. The second project is intersection improvements at Northeast Barry Road and North Indiana Avenue, which includes installing permanent streetlighting to replace the temporary streetlight now in place, required in order to add turn lanes. Staff put the split at roughly $1 million to Barry and Indiana and $3 million to Northeast Shoal Creek Parkway. O’Neill asked whether the $4 million is coming out of another District 1 project; staff could not answer and said they would find out. O’Neill credited Councilmember Nathan Willett with the effort to find funding for the Staley Road work. No public testimony. Advanced with a recommendation to pass.
Jail Update
Diana Napp, director of the Department of Community Safety, presented with Deputy Director of Administration Megan Case and the deputy director of operations, on the Kansas City Municipal Correctional and Rehabilitation Facility at 7740 East Front Street.
Napp said the project has been done in record time and that consultants involved have never seen a correctional facility of this size come up this quickly. The facility has a rated capacity of 136 beds and an operational capacity of about 110, because industry standard is not to fill a correctional facility past 80 percent, both to keep classifications separated and to allow parts of the facility to be vacated for maintenance.
The building did not yet have a temporary certificate of occupancy. Staff said the contractor was working with a city code inspector and an independent commissioning contractor on pull tests on bolts for the erected structure, requiring a special jacket, and expected to finish that week. With a certificate in hand, custody staff could transfer to the site the following week, though computers and phones are not yet installed.
The first operational step is to start taking releases off the Kansas City Police Department’s plate by September 30. People released from Johnson County are currently transported to South Patrol, which processes them out. Napp wants that to happen at the new facility instead, to allow informed handoffs with treatment providers. She said the department made a commitment to the Northeast that there would be no pedestrian traffic out of the facility, so anyone without a ride will be taken to shelter or to the patrol station closest to their support system.
Napp would not give an opening date. She said the facility cannot house people overnight until the medical services contract is in place, that contract is still moving between attorneys, and it requires a 90 day window after signature to become operational, including recruiting, hiring, and background checks that go beyond the city’s standard because of access to criminal justice information systems through the Highway Patrol. She said the requests for proposals predate her arrival on March 16 and credited Case with standing the process up alone.
O’Neill said the communication to council had been “we build it, we open it,” and that the council allocates the money and should have known about the staffing sequence and the 90 day contract window. Robinson pressed twice for a date, said there is no excuse for not having a benchmark for when the detention center opens, called it unacceptable, and directed the criticism at the city manager rather than Napp. She also asked whether the facility meets national standards for restorative justice and said waiting until September for that answer is a hard pill to swallow. Duncan noted the municipal population carries a myriad of medical and mental health complications and pointed to two deaths already at the new Jackson County Detention Center as a reason not to rush.
Napp said an assistant city manager has requested a business meeting on September 3 for a comprehensive presentation covering the permanent facility and the Community Resource Center plans. O’Neill said he has seen some of those presentations and agreed restorative justice is not negotiable. Robinson objected that presentations shared with one councilmember should be brought before the entire body, and asked that the consultants be made available for the same meetings. Both Robinson and O’Neill recognized Case for her work.
End of Transportation, Infrastructure, and Operations Committee Agenda
Finance, Governance, and Public Safety Committee
August 4th, 2026, 10:30 am
The Finance, Governance, and Public Safety Committee was attended by Chairperson Andrea Bough, Councilmember Wes Rogers, Councilmember Crispin Rea, and Councilmember Darrell Curls. Councilmember Melissa Patterson Hazley attended to present two of her items.
260676
Authorizing the Director of General Services to execute a one (1) year lease agreement with two (2) options to renew for one (1) year each with KC Mothers In Charge for the purpose of an office space at the Robert J. Mohart Center, located at 3200 Wayne Avenue, Kansas City Missouri, 64109.
Neighborhoods: Ivanhoe
Sponsor: Director of General Services
Attachments: Memo
Result: Ashley Wise, real estate manager in the General Services Department, presented a renewal lease for a longtime tenant at the Mohart Center, with two additional one-year options with estimated revenue of about $8,800 for the year. Rea said he had served on the KC Mothers In Charge board and that they do incredible work, then clarified for the record that his service was about five or six years ago when he was in the prosecutor’s office, not currently. No public testimony. Advanced with a recommendation to pass and placed on the consent agenda.
260678
Amending Chapter 2, Code of Ordinances, “Administration,” by enacting a new Section 2-73 establishing a City Council Policy Manual and a City Council Handbook and prescribing procedures for their adoption, amendment, and maintenance.
Sponsor: Councilmember Darrell Curls
Attachments: Memo, City Council Handbook
Result: Read together with 260679 and 260680, then voted separately. Curls said the package updates the council handbook and a few things about council offices, developed with the Law Department and Finance, and that there are no major changes.
The city attorney presenting said the package came out of a study of peer cities with a city manager form of government. The ordinance gives the council a codified tool it has never had: a way to memorialize both the operational policies of the council office and the points where the council chooses to depart from city manager policy, picking up where administrative regulations stop. He gave the council volunteer policy as an example, noting it is currently codified even though it affects the operations of the council office rather than the other 508,000 residents, and said this creates a vehicle to move it into a more malleable policy as part of the code modernization project. He said social media policies, staff conduct policies, and staff communications policies could all fit in the manual. The handbook, he said, is an operations manual that has always existed but was never formally adopted; the ordinance adopts it by legislative action and sets up an annual update process. He compared the two accompanying resolutions to uniform code adoption: the council adopts the manager’s regulation except for specified deviations.
Rea asked whether the city attorney was green lighting the structure. He said the ordinance itself is straightforward codification and creates an institutional placeholder so staff do not have to reconstruct policy from scattered resolutions and institutional memory. Curls emphasized that on council purchases and procurement cards, everything still has to be approved by the fiscal officer before any reimbursement or payment, which he called a powerful accountability piece. Bough confirmed the package does not change current policies and procedures, it formalizes them transparently. No public testimony. Advanced with a recommendation to pass.
260679
RESOLUTION – Adopting an Addendum to the City Procurement Card Policy for City Council Offices, attached as Exhibit A, as a policy statement of the City Council and directing its inclusion in the Council Policy Manual pursuant to Section 2-73 of the Code of Ordinances.
Sponsor: Councilmember Darrell Curls
Attachments: Memo
Result: Heard with 260678 and 260680, voted separately. See 260678 for the discussion. No public testimony. Advanced with a recommendation to pass.
260680
RESOLUTION – Adopting an Addendum to the City Travel Policy for City Council Offices, attached as Exhibit A, as a policy statement of the City Council and directing its inclusion in the Council Policy Manual pursuant to Section 2-73 of the Code of Ordinances.
Sponsor: Councilmember Darrell Curls
Attachments: Memo
Result: Heard with 260678 and 260679, voted separately. See 260678 for the discussion. No public testimony. Advanced with a recommendation to pass.
260686
Reducing appropriations in the Capital Improvements Sales Tax Fund (3090) by $500,000.00 from District 3 Project Holding; appropriating $500,000.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Capital Improvements Sales Tax Fund (3090) for construction funding of various needs for the Forest Avenue Sidewalk project in the Wheatley-Provident area; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
Neighborhoods: 18th and Vine / Downtown East
Sponsor: Councilmember Melissa Patterson Hazley
Attachments: Memo
Result: Advanced as a committee substitute. Read and heard together with 260687.
Patterson Hazley presented on the Wheatley-Provident Hospital site redevelopment and stressed the request is for public improvements only, streetscape and utilities. She gave the history: the hospital was founded in 1903 at 19th and Forest, in the Hospital Hill neighborhood, within walking distance of the Lydia garage. It was the African American hospital in a segregated medical system, also founded by Children’s Mercy, and its doctors and nurses trained other African American doctors and nurses around the country and around the world, which she said gives it a claim to international recognition. It is a historic landmark, and it was headed for demolition before the ownership group bought it.
Marie Benton of the ownership group said the building has been inactive for half a century, with collapsed utilities and infrastructure, and that the plan is not just to bring it back online but to make healthcare and biohealth part of the story. She said the location ties in the Crossroads, the Vine District, and Hospital Hill, and that the project cannot start without the infrastructure improvements. Chris Jones of MatchRite Care, an anchor tenant, said he founded the company in Kansas City about seven years ago, aimed at giving everyone access to their medical records by connecting to every electronic medical record system, from small providers to the Department of Veterans Affairs, and that he wants to anchor the building and draw more healthcare companies in.
Patterson Hazley said the building has had no water or sewer hookups for as long as 75 years or more, that the vision for the area is a biosciences hub, and that the project should produce 70 to 100 on site jobs ranging from entry level to high skill. She pushed back on the assumption that bioscience jobs all require doctorates, noting some require a two week certification, and said she wants to work with the local school district and the Full Employment Council to move people into them. She framed it that much of the 18th and Vine area is where you go to spend money, and this is a place where you can make money.
She explained why the District 3 PIAC money is in front of the committee at all: Councilwoman Robinson may have a potential conflict based on her background and employer, so the appropriation is coming by ordinance instead of being signed off administratively.
Rea asked about project viability, on the reasoning that infrastructure dollars are wasted if the development does not move. Benton said the capital stack includes historic tax credits, new market tax credits, and a lending partner at the table, and that with the tenants committed the ownership group is ready to move. She also said the National Utilities Contractors Association reached out looking for a partnership, originally about something involving demolitions, and has agreed to take on the utility side as in kind construction, down to pipes, manpower, and contractors. That, she said, is why the city ask is so low. On sequencing, the PIAC sidewalk work will likely be handled internally with city contractors, and the association wants to start utility construction this winter, with everything coordinated so the street does not have to be reopened twice.
Curls asked whether the $70,000 in water and sewer money could instead come from the bond issue on that day’s ballot. Bough said probably not, because any bonds approved would not be issued until after the project had started. No public testimony. Advanced with a recommendation to pass.
260687
Appropriating $40,000.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Water Fund (8010) for water main improvements on Forest Avenue near the former Wheatley-Provident Hospital site; appropriating $30,000.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Sewer Fund (8110) for sewer main improvements on Forest Avenue; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
Neighborhoods: 18th and Vine / Downtown East
Sponsor: Councilmember Melissa Patterson Hazley
Attachments: Memo
Result: Advanced as a committee substitute. Read and heard together with 260686, see that entry for the discussion. No public testimony. Advanced with a recommendation to pass.
260688
Directing the City Manager to suspend application and enforcement of the City’s Minority and Woman 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.
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
Result: Held one week, until August 11.
260689
Directing the City Manager to suspend application and enforcement of the City’s Minority and Woman Business Enterprise (“M/WBE”) Program; directing the City Manager to develop a new business enterprise 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.
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
Result: Held one week, until August 11.
260690
Repealing Chapter 3, Article IV, Division 2 of the City’s Code of Ordinances and terminating the City’s Minority and Woman 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.
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: City Manager’s Office Document
Result: Held one week, until August 11.
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.
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: City Manager’s Office Document
Result: Held one week, until August 11.
260692
An ordinance enacting the small business program.
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
Result: Held one week, until August 11.
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.
Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas
Attachments: Memo
Result: Held one additional week.
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.
Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas
Attachments: Memo
Result: Held one additional week.
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 and Downtown
Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas
Attachments: Memo
Result: Held one additional week.
End of Finance, Governance, and Public Safety Committee Agenda
Neighborhood Planning and Development Committee
August 4th, 2026, 1:30 pm
The Neighborhood Planning and Development Committee was chaired this week by Vice Chair Eric Bunch, and attended by Councilmember Melissa Patterson Hazley, Councilmember Andrea Bough, and Chairperson Ryana Parks-Shaw, who joined online.
260671
Approving the plat of Historic Northeast Lofts Condominium an addition in Jackson County, Missouri, on approximately 22 acres generally located at the southeast corner of Independence Avenue and Hardesty Avenue, creating one (1) mixed-use lot (489 units) and nine (9) tracts for the purpose of a mixed-use development; accepting various easements; authorizing the Director of City Planning and Development and the Director of Water Services to execute and/or accept certain agreements; and directing the City Clerk to facilitate the recordation of this ordinance and attached documents. (CLD-FnPlat-2026-00017)
Neighborhoods: Indian Mound
Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department
Result: Taken up with 260684 as a consent item. No presentation, no discussion. Public testimony was taken after the vote, when Bunch caught the omission and went back; the clerk confirmed no written testimony and no one appearing by Zoom or in person. Advanced with a recommendation to pass and placed on the consent agenda.
260684
RESOLUTION – Appointing Alyx Schwab, Toby Hurst, Douglas Coleman and Wiley (Trey) Meyer, III as successor directors to the Northland Gateway Community Improvement District.
Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas
Result: Taken up with 260671 as a consent item. No presentation, no discussion, no public testimony. Advanced with a recommendation to pass and placed on the consent agenda.
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
Result: Held one week at the applicant’s request.
260674
Reducing appropriations in the amount of $166,224.00 and appropriating the same from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Economic Development Fund (2215) for the purpose of the City Manager’s office assuming responsibility for the implementation of the ProspectUs Plan; authorizing the City Manager to take actions necessary to effectuate the intent of this ordinance; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
Neighborhoods: Prospect Avenue Corridor
Sponsor: Councilmember Melissa Patterson Hazley
Result: Patterson Hazley presented it briefly as a companion measure. The council amended the Economic Development Corporation contract to exclude the ProspectUs positions, and this ordinance appropriates those funds back to City Hall. No questions, no public testimony. Advanced with a recommendation to pass.
260677
Rezoning an area of about 7.6 acres generally located at 12220 N.W. Skyview Avenue from District AG-R to District B4-1 and approving a development plan to allow for a variety of uses and multiple buildings on one lot. (CD-CPC-2026-00028 & CD-CPC-2026-00027)
Neighborhoods: KCI
Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department
Result: Held two weeks at the applicant’s request, along with its companion 260682. Bunch noted the hold would actually put the items three weeks out.
260681
Approving a development plan on about 10.08 acres in District UR generally located at the intersection of State Line Road and American Way Drive, specifically located at the Hyvee Arena, to amend the uses allowed within the plan area. (CD-CPC-2026-00068)
Neighborhoods: West Bottoms
Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department
Result: Justin Smith of the City Planning and Development Department’s Development Management Division presented this as a major amendment for the Hy-Vee Arena. The site sits in the 4th District, in the Historic West Bottoms, within the boundaries of the Greater Downtown Area Plan. It is zoned Urban Redevelopment, so any change to the plan requires a major or minor amendment. Kansas is to the west, and accessory parking and a mix of retail and residential sit to the north.
The plan on file was approved in 2017 with a condition to update the list of uses that was never satisfied. This amendment does only that. The applicant supplied a list of prohibited uses, and any use allowed in Downtown Mixed Use zoning is permitted. Smith flagged one point: an existing data center within the project will remain, and any new data center at this site will require a special use permit.
The City Plan Commission recommended approval with conditions. No questions from the committee, no public testimony. Advanced with a recommendation to pass.
260682
Approving an amendment to the KCI Area Plan on about 7.6 acres generally located at 12220 N.W. Skyview Avenue by changing the recommended land use from Neighborhood 1 to Business Center for The Hub. (CD-CPC-2026-00029)
Neighborhoods: KCI
Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department
Result: Held two weeks at the applicant’s request, along with its companion 260677.
260683
Amending Chapter 88, the Zoning and Development Code, by repealing Sections 88-110-04, 88-110-06-C, 88-408-A, 88-445-06, 88-620-B, 88-810-1442, and 88-810-2140, and enacting in lieu thereof new sections of like number and subject matter for the purpose of replacing the terms attached house, semi attached house, and townhouse with the terms townhouse, two-unit townhouse, and multi-unit townhouse to align definitions and terms within the Zoning and Development Code to the Building Code. (CD-CPC-2026-00085)
Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department
Result: Abby Brinkley of City Planning and Development presented. The change came out of an ongoing process improvement effort, most recently looking at townhouses. The building code, Chapter 18, defines a townhouse as two or more units, while the zoning code, Chapter 88, defines it as three or more. The ordinance renames definitions so the two match: attached house becomes townhouse, semi attached house becomes two unit townhouse, and what was a townhouse becomes a multi unit townhouse. One additional change not shown in the slides corrects a single use of the term town home to townhouse. Bunch called it straightforward and overdue cleanup. No public testimony. Advanced with a recommendation to pass.
260498
Calling an election on April 6, 2027, for the purpose of submitting to the voters of Kansas City a question authorizing City to establish annual vacant property registration fees not to exceed $200.00 for chronically vacant nuisance property, $1,000.00 for vacant commercial property and $200.00 for vacant unimproved property; directing the City Clerk to notify the responsible election authorities on or before January 26, 2027; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date because it calls an election.
Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas
Result: Held one month, to September 1. No one from the Mayor’s Office presented; the request was to hold. Bunch noted that the new election date of April 6, 2027 is the same day as the next primary election for Mayor and City Council. The committee confirmed September 1 as its next meeting, ahead of Labor Day, and set the item for that date.
End of Neighborhood Planning and Development Committee Agenda
City Council
August 6th, 2026, 2 pm
The session was attended this week by 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
260693
RESOLUTION – Recognizing and honoring Stanley Morgan for his distinguished career in public service, his exceptional contributions to the arts, and his enduring commitment to preserving and enriching the cultural heritage of Kansas City.
Sponsor: Councilmember Crispin Rea
Result: Stanley Morgan was present to receive the resolution. Rea said Morgan gave 25 years of service to the city as a recreation leader in the Parks and Recreation Department, working with youth, families, and neighborhoods through recreation, mentorship, and community engagement. He is also an accomplished artist with more than 50 murals and public art installations across the Kansas City metropolitan area, including murals at city aquatic facilities, at the Swope Park bandstand, at Bartle Hall, and the Steptoe mural commemorating the Penn School, the first African American school in the area. Rea noted that both he and Councilmember Bunch represent that neighborhood and referenced future work planned there. Morgan is a graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute and received the 1998 Support Award from the city’s director of Aquatics. Rea also noted that Morgan’s daughter Kimberly works in the council office, and that he met Morgan first and only later connected the dots. Morgan accepted, thanked his family, and said the city gave him a plaque after 25 years and that the accumulation of it all left him very honored.
260703
RESOLUTION – Expressing support for the Kansas City Streetcar workers unionization effort.
Sponsor: Councilmember Kevin O’Neill
Result: Held one week.
Final Readings, Consent Docket
260684
RESOLUTION – Appointing Alyx Schwab, Toby Hurst, Douglas Coleman and Wiley (Trey) Meyer, III as successor directors to the Northland Gateway Community Improvement District.
Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas
Attachments: Memo
Result: Neighborhood Planning and Development recommended immediate adoption on consent. No discussion. Adopted, nine ayes.
Final Readings, Debate Docket
260679
RESOLUTION – Adopting an Addendum to the City Procurement Card Policy for City Council Offices, attached as Exhibit A, as a policy statement of the City Council and directing its inclusion in the Council Policy Manual pursuant to Section 2-73 of the Code of Ordinances.
Sponsor: Councilmember Darrell Curls
Attachments: Memo
Result: Rea carried it, describing it as one of three ordinances dealing with the council’s procurement card policies. The addendum sets guidelines for council offices consistent with Administrative Regulation 3-19 and Code of Ordinances sections 2-2060 and 2-2061, and states the council’s position on what the policy should be and where it lands in the policy manual. No further discussion. Adopted, ten ayes.
260680
RESOLUTION – Adopting an Addendum to the City Travel Policy for City Council Offices, attached as Exhibit A, as a policy statement of the City Council and directing its inclusion in the Council Policy Manual pursuant to Section 2-73 of the Code of Ordinances.
Sponsor: Councilmember Darrell Curls
Attachments: Memo
Result: Rea carried it. The addendum addresses the city’s travel policy as applied to council offices and establishes guidelines pursuant to Administrative Regulation 3-03, Code of Ordinances section 2-2061, and the Missouri Sunshine Law at Section 610.010. No further discussion. Adopted, ten ayes.
260661
Approving a major amendment to a previously approved UR Plan on about 13.64 acres in District UR generally located at the southwest corner of East Linwood Boulevard and Gillham Plaza to allow outdoor storage of 25 trucks and installation of a 10-foot fence. (CD-CPC-2026-00069)
Neighborhoods: Broadway Gillham
Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department
Attachments: Memo
Result: This is the Costco conversion, and it drew the only extended debate of the afternoon. It came to the floor from Neighborhood Planning and Development without recommendation.
Bunch carried it and called it “affectionately known as the Costco Business Center ordinance.” The amendment lets the store convert from a standard warehouse to a business center. That means losing the tire center, some alcohol sales, clothing, and the food court. The pharmacy had also been slated to close, but after negotiation, which Bunch credited to Rea, Costco agreed to keep it open for at least a year with hopes it continues past that. Bunch said the pharmacy was the biggest sticking point for constituents. Traffic patterns change, with fewer large trucks but more smaller trucks as business deliveries increase out of the location. The parking lot changes to accommodate more outdoor storage, plus fencing and other minor changes.
Bunch then separated his personal view from the committee report. He said Costco has made clear that if it does not become a business center it is closing, that the council can speculate about whether that is a bluff, and that his reading is there is real risk in voting it down. He said he is not a fan of an empty big box store in the middle of the city, that if the city were doing it over the site would look completely different, and that long term there should be a broader vision for a higher and better use. What exists now is a functioning store that will remain with most of the services intact. He voted yes with what he described as a lot of frustration, concern, and reluctance.
Rea said he struggled with the accept-the-changes-or-the-store-closes framing and that if he had let ego drive it he would have rolled the dice. Community engagement sessions, neighborhood meetings, social media, emails, and calls all pointed to the pharmacy as the most impactful and essential piece, especially in a period when household budgets are strained. He cited a message from a mother whose autistic daughter gets her medications there and said he could not overlook the human element. He framed the vote as being for residents who rely on pharmacy and grocery access, not for Costco.
Curls said the council appears to be in a box, with no guarantee the store stays even if the amendment passes and a clear signal it leaves if it does not, and said it feels like a gun to the head. He applauded the pharmacy effort and listed urban core losses with the Walgreens at 47th and Troost, the Walgreens on 62nd, and the CVS at 63rd and Prospect, leaving residents in the urban core and African American communities with few options, particularly people without transportation. He asked whether holding the item would open room for more negotiation. Rea answered that with the pharmacy secured, being the most quality of life impacting and literally the most life or death piece, he did not know what more could be negotiated that would matter as much, that he would not hold it up over liquor service, and that he would rather move it forward and lock in the services.
Patterson Hazley said her concern is the Midtown traffic pattern. Large vehicle and semi-truck traffic will increase over time as the business center recruits more businesses, and the 4th District and Midtown have led the city on walkability and bikeability. She walked through the routes: traffic heading west has to pass Main and take a side street past Penn Valley Park to reach Interstate 35 north; heading south it passes through Westport and the Plaza to 47th Street and over to 71; heading east it takes Linwood Boulevard to 71; heading north it uses Gillham, narrow streets running through entertainment districts that are themselves trying to be walkable and bikeable. Her conclusion was that the traffic pattern does not match the vision for Kansas City, and she had hoped the company would consider one of the corridors where the city has space and could deeply discount a building better suited to that traffic. She voted no.
Rea returned to make what he called the stakes clear: nobody knows whether Costco means it, and he was not willing to find out. The worst outcomes are losing the grocery, the pharmacy, and the gas altogether, and then having the site become what he called “a crater in the middle of Midtown” for the foreseeable future, because there is no guarantee the property sells, no guarantee of what replaces it, no known buyer, and city processes move slowly. He pointed to vacant lots up and down Main Street that remain unfilled, right off the streetcar line.
Duncan agreed the council is in a bad position and said it is incumbent on the body to build longevity requirements into future incentive agreements. He said it is not a coincidence that almost to the day the incentive requirements ran out, the company repositioned itself and set aside community concerns. He then pivoted to the Royals stadium development agreement being introduced from the floor that same afternoon, said the city is still in active negotiation with the Royals, questioned why a development agreement without the kinds of requirements just discussed was in front of them, why the city would weaken its own negotiating position with a premature agreement, and why it was coming from the floor rather than being docketed. He said he told the mayor, who was not present, that it is premature to be mid-negotiation and simultaneously tell the Royals the city will provide $20 million up front. He voted yes on Costco reluctantly and said the city has to do better.
Robinson objected to the word irresponsible being applied to members planning to vote no. She said the area plan is clear, the city has Boulevard standards, and this development does not meet them. The city talks about sharing the road with walkers and cyclists, and the staff report itself said traffic will increase. Businesses threaten to leave all the time when they do not get what they want, and that is not new to the council. When the city sets standards, developments have to meet them. She voted no.
Passed, eight ayes and two noes, with Patterson Hazley and Robinson voting no.
260676
Authorizing the Director of General Services to execute a one (1) year lease agreement with two (2) options to renew for one (1) year each with KC Mothers In Charge for the purpose of office space at the Robert J. Mohart Center, located at 3200 Wayne Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri, 64109.
Neighborhoods: Ivanhoe
Sponsor: Director of General Services Department
Attachments: Memo
Result: Advanced from Finance, Governance and Public Safety on consent, read with 260671. No discussion. Passed, ten ayes.
260671
Approving the plat of Historic Northeast Lofts Condominium an addition in Jackson County, Missouri, on approximately 22 acres generally located at the southeast corner of Independence Avenue and Hardesty Avenue, creating one (1) mixed-use lot (489 units) and nine (9) tracts for the purpose of a mixed-use development; accepting various easements; authorizing the Director of City Planning and Development and the Director of Water Services to execute and/or accept certain agreements; and directing the City Clerk to facilitate the recordation of this ordinance and attached documents. (CLD-FnPlat-2026-00017)
Neighborhoods: Indian Mound
Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department
Attachments: Memo
Result: Advanced from Neighborhood Planning and Development on consent, read with 260676. No discussion. Passed, ten ayes.
260678
Amending Chapter 2, Code of Ordinances, “Administration,” by enacting a new Section 2-73 establishing a City Council Policy Manual and a City Council Handbook and prescribing procedures for their adoption, amendment, and maintenance.
Sponsor: Councilmember Darrell Curls
Attachments: Memo, City Council Handbook
Result: Rea carried it as the third of Curls’s three items. The handbook becomes an operational guide of rules and regulations for the City Council and council staff, consistent with those followed by other city employees. The policy manual will contain all city policy statements adopted by resolution of the City Council. Curls had nothing to add. No further discussion. Passed, ten ayes.
260686
Reducing appropriations in the Capital Improvements Sales Tax Fund (3090) by $500,000.00 from District 3 Project Holding; appropriating $500,000.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Capital Improvements Sales Tax Fund (3090) for construction funding of various needs for the Forest Avenue Sidewalk project in the Wheatley – Provident area; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
Neighborhoods: Hospital Hill
Sponsor: Councilmember Melissa Patterson Hazley
Attachments: Memo
Result: Rea carried it. He described the project as the renovation and conversion of the historic former Wheatley-Provident Hospital at 1826 Forest Avenue in the Hospital Hill neighborhood, preserving and renewing a historic building to better serve current needs. It becomes the new home of BioNexus Biohub and MatchRite Care, each relocating offices from outside Kansas City. He put the job count at 70 to 100 new on-site jobs from entry level to high skilled, plus hundreds of additional off-site jobs. The improvements cover curb, sidewalk, and driveway approaches along the west side of Forest Avenue between 18th and 19th Street, and along the north side of 19th Street between Forest Avenue and Troost. The money is 3rd District PIAC funding that came through committee for approval.
Robinson recused herself, stating a personal interest through the Black Health Care Coalition. Passed, nine ayes and one abstention.
260687
Appropriating $40,000.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Water Fund (8010) for water main improvements on Forest Avenue near the former Wheatley-Provident Hospital site; appropriating $30,000.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Sewer Fund (8110) for sewer main improvements on Forest Avenue; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
Neighborhoods: Hospital Hill
Sponsor: Councilmember Melissa Patterson Hazley
Attachments: Memo
Result: Rea carried it as the same project, this piece covering the water main and sewer main work Forest Avenue requires. The appropriations facilitate and complement repair and replacement of the existing water and sewer mains on Forest Avenue from 18th to 19th streets. Robinson recused herself again, stating a personal interest related to the Black Health Care Coalition, which she identified as her employer. Passed, nine ayes and one abstention.
260674
Reducing appropriations in the amount of $166,224.00 and appropriating the same from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Economic Development Fund (2215) for the purpose of the City Manager’s office assuming responsibility for the implementation of the ProspectUs Plan; authorizing the City Manager to take actions necessary to effectuate the intent of this ordinance; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
Neighborhoods: Prospect Avenue Corridor
Sponsor: Councilmember Melissa Patterson Hazley
Result: Bunch carried it. He said the ordinance incorporates the funding so the city can take over responsibility for the ProspectUs plan, and that this is appropriate given it is a function of the Planning Department and a long range plan. He thanked Patterson Hazley for taking the lead. No further discussion. Passed, ten ayes.
260681
Approving a development plan on about 10.08 acres in District UR generally located at the intersection of State Line Road and American Way Drive, specifically located at the Hyvee Arena, to amend the uses allowed within the plan area. (CD-CPC-2026-00068)
Neighborhoods: West Bottoms
Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department
Attachments: Memo
Result: Bunch carried it and described it as an update to the development plan for the Hy-Vee Arena, which he said used to be city owned before being sold to a developer. It allows a few new uses. He addressed the data center question head on: a data center use is in there, but the ordinance is not turning Hy-Vee Arena into a data center, it only creates the potential for that use as a small component of the overall program. He called it nothing new, just an update to a previously discussed plan.
Bunch then flagged an apparent error in the title, saying it reads American Way Drive and he believes the correct name is American Royal Drive. Staff said if it is a scrivener’s error they will fix it that way, allowed that there may also be an American Way Drive in the area, and said the intent is to capture the applicable drive and make sure the title reflects the correct name. No further discussion. Passed, ten ayes.
260683
Amending Chapter 88, the Zoning and Development Code, by repealing Sections 88-110-04, 88-110-06-C, 88-408-A, 88-445-06, 88-620-B, 88-810-1442, and 88-810-2140, and enacting in lieu thereof new sections of like number and subject matter for the purpose of replacing the terms attached house, semi attached house, and townhouse with the terms townhouse, two-unit townhouse, and multi-unit townhouse to align definitions and terms within the Zoning and Development Code to the Building Code. (CD-CPC-2026-00085)
Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department
Attachments: Memo
Result: Bunch carried it and acknowledged the title looks confusing. All it does is shore up the language in Chapter 88, the development code, and align it with Chapter 18, the building code. He said the development code carried several different names for what is ostensibly the same thing, multi family, town home, attached townhouse, semi attached townhouse, townhouse, and town home, and this unifies them. He called it largely ministerial. No further discussion. Passed, ten ayes.
260669
Authorizing the Director of Water Services to execute a $2,442,330.00 construction contract with Kissick Construction Company, Inc., for the Water Main Replacement in the Area of Troost Avenue to Brooklyn Avenue, E. 83rd Street to E. 85th Street project; authorizing a maximum expenditure of $2,686,563.00; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
Neighborhoods: Marlborough Heights
Sponsor: Director of Water Services Department
Attachments: Memo, Presentation
Result: O’Neill carried it. He said the Water Services Department is undertaking the project to improve distribution system reliability, increase hydraulic conveyance capacity, and support fire protection by replacing aging break prone cast iron water mains with ductile iron pipe. The work includes transferring customer water service connections from the existing mains to the new mains. He read the specific segments into the record: along Tracy Avenue between E. 83rd Street and E. 85th Street, along Prospect Avenue between E. 81st Street and E. 84th Street, along Locust Street between 83rd Street and 85th Street, and along E. 85th Street between Lydia Avenue and Highland Avenue. No further discussion. Passed, ten ayes.
260670
Authorizing the Manager of Procurement Services to execute a $2,800,000.00 facility repair & maintenance contract with Lippert Mechanical Services LLC, for the HVAC Preventative Maintenance & Repair project; authorizing four successive one-year renewal options with further City Council approval; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
Neighborhoods: City Wide
Sponsor: Director of Water Services Department
Attachments: Memo, Presentation
Result: O’Neill carried it. The Water Services Department is undertaking the project to assess the condition of its heating, ventilation, and air conditioning equipment, schedule detailed preventive maintenance, make repairs, and plan upgrades in a coordinated way across its buildings and operations. No further discussion. Passed, ten ayes.
260673
Authorizing the Director of Water Services to execute a $1,300,000.00 professional, specialized or technical services contract with Pure Technologies U.S. dba Wachs Water Services, for the Hydrant and Water Valve Assessment, Management and Mapping project; and authorizing five successive one-year renewal options with further City Council approval.
Neighborhoods: City Wide
Sponsor: Director of Water Services Department
Attachments: Memo, Presentation
Result: O’Neill read the scope into the record. The contractor supports inspection, evaluation, rehabilitation, documentation, and management of water distribution system valves and fire hydrants. Services include evaluating, exercising, rehabilitating, and improving the operational reliability and functionality of valves and hydrants; inventorying and documenting valve assets, including operational status, physical characteristics, condition, and geographic location; developing and maintaining a comprehensive valve database and integrating all deliverables into the city’s Hansen work order management system; analyzing the collected asset data and providing consulting services to help the city build and implement a long term asset management program for valves and hydrants; inventorying, documenting, integrating, and analyzing location, condition, and operational data for fire hydrants; and providing operational support including water main shutdowns and main flushing. O’Neill offered to keep reading and Bough said the council had enough. Passed, ten ayes.
260675
Reducing appropriations in the Capital Improvements Sales Tax Fund by $4,000,000.00 from District 1 Project Holding; appropriating $4,000,000.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Capital Improvements Sales Tax Fund for construction of Barry and Indiana Intersection and Staley High- Northeast Shoal Creek Parkway; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
Neighborhoods: Shoal Creek, Gashland
Sponsor: Director of Public Works
Attachments: Memo
Result: O’Neill carried it and put numbers on both projects. The Barry and Indiana intersection project has a Capital Improvement Program score of 47 under the approved rating criteria, and the Staley High School and Northeast Shoal Creek Parkway project has a score of 64. The reallocation lets both advance by supplying construction funding from the unappropriated fund balance of the Capital Improvements Sales Tax Fund. O’Neill gave special thanks to Councilmember Willett for the work of getting both projects situated. No further discussion. Passed, ten ayes.
First Readings & Introductions
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
Attachments: Memo
Result: Introduced and referred to the Finance, Governance and Public Safety Committee.
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: Introduced and referred to the Finance, Governance and Public Safety Committee.
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
Result: Introduced and referred to the Neighborhood Planning and Development Committee.
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: City Wide
Sponsor: Director of Health Department
Attachments: Memo
Result: Introduced and referred to the Neighborhood Planning and Development Committee.
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: City Wide
Sponsor: Director of General Services Department
Attachments: Memo
Result: Introduced and referred to the Transportation, Infrastructure and Operations Committee.
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 and affiliated entities for the design, construction, and operation of a new stadium, team offices, and supporting infrastructure in the Washington Square and Crown Center area; authorizing execution of additional cooperative agreements in connection with the lease, non-relocation agreement, development agreement, and funding agreement; authorizing the City Manager to execute an intergovernmental cooperative agreement with the State of Missouri and related entities; establishing Fund No. 3459, 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 funding sources for the project and future debt service; authorizing execution of additional agreements as necessary to comply with the directives of this ordinance; reaffirming the City Council’s intent to waive the contract solicitation requirements of Article 4, Chapter 3 of the Code of Ordinances as to the agreements; waiving the requirements of Sections 88-586-01 through 88-586-07; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
Neighborhoods: Crown Center, Union Hill
Sponsor: Councilmember Kevin O’Neill
Result: Introduced from the floor and referred to the Finance, Governance and Public Safety Committee. Duncan had already objected during the Costco debate, saying the agreement is premature while the city is still in active negotiation with the Royals, that it does not include the kind of longevity and community requirements the council had just spent 20 minutes wishing it had put in the Costco incentives, that it weakens the city’s negotiating position, and that it should have been docketed rather than introduced from the floor. He said he told the mayor, who was not present, that committing $20 million up front mid-negotiation is premature.
260705
Rezoning an area of about 68 acres generally located at Pershing Road, west of Gillham Road, north of East 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 development plan to allow for a ballpark district.
Neighborhoods: Crown Center, Union Hill
Sponsor: Councilmember Kevin O’Neill
Result: Introduced from the floor and referred to the Finance, Governance and Public Safety Committee.
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 related to the Overlook Tax Increment Financing Redevelopment area and the Overlook Plan Industrial Expansion Authority General Development Plan area.
Neighborhoods:
Sponsor: Councilmember Melissa Robinson
Result: Introduced from the floor and referred to the Finance, Governance and Public Safety Committee.
260707
Authorizing the City Manager to execute Amendment No. 2 to the 2026-27 Transit Services Agreement with the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority to increase the contract amount by $11,000,000.00 to maintain transit service levels; authorizing a total contract amount not to exceed $97,278,976.00; appropriating $11,000,000.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
Neighborhoods: City Wide
Sponsor: Councilmember Melissa Robinson
Result: Introduced from the floor and referred to the Finance, Governance and Public Safety Committee.
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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