Neighborhood Watch List:
49/63 Coalition ◉ Blue Hills ◉ Tri-Blenheim ◉ Hyde Park ◉ River Market ◉ West Plaza ◉ Wendell Phillips and Downtown East ◉ Downtown
What to watch
The property tax levy came back and passed (260850). Council reconsidered the ordinance that failed 5 to 7 last week and passed it 10 to 2, with Councilmember Nathan Willett and Mayor Pro Tem Ryana Parks-Shaw voting no.
Both initiative petition ballot ordinances passed (260858 and 260859). Kansas City voters will decide on April 6, 2027 whether to bar the City from advancing a stadium or arena plan without a vote, and whether to levy a quarter cent sales tax and continue an existing three eighths cent tax for a citywide monorail.
The health levy safety net resolution passed as a substitute (260822). The compromise keeps the current providers and starts the new reporting and reimbursement rules now, but pushes the competitive solicitation back.
The Staley Road subdivision fell apart over $500,000 and was held a fourth time (260563). The developer and Councilmember Nathan Willett left a Monday meeting with opposite understandings of the deal, and the committee spent most of an hour on whether the City should credit the cost of an archaeological study for the slave cemetery on the site against a road improvement payment.
The Housing Trust Fund pulled $652,186 back out of a stalled townhome project (260836) at 29th and Belleview, where nine affordable units had shrunk to maybe two or three at roughly $435,000 of public subsidy each. The same ordinance puts $1,345,000 more into the Mohawk at 15th Street development after a buried petroleum tank blew up its budget.
The Belmont Apartments at 911 East Linwood are being restored rather than demolished (260869). The building went up around 1912 as a hotel, later held Thornton and Minor Hospital and a regional Veterans Administration office, but has sat empty since the mid-1980s.
The City is chasing $40,800,000 in federal money for 63rd and Paseo (260884). The $51,000,000 project would rebuild the 63rd, Paseo and Meyer intersection and add green infrastructure on top of the $90,000,000 Town Fork Creek sewer separation work already underway. The application is due October 9.
The skatepark under the Buck O’Neil Bridge is going out to bid (260882), after the City found out it cannot use the cooperative purchasing program it planned on (state law bars it for construction contracts in Missouri cities over 500,000 people and Kansas City is the only one).
Councilmember Nathan Willett voted no on the entire consent docket (260867, 260871, 260873, 260877 and 260881), five routine grant acceptances, a plat and a lawsuit settlement that drew no discussion.
The 384 foot data center tower proposed at 10th and Central was held to October 13 (260870) without discussion.
Committee & Council
260892
RESOLUTION – Recognizing and honoring Laurie Abbott for her distinguished career, exceptional dedication to public service, unwavering support of City leadership, and lasting contributions to the City of Kansas City, Missouri, and its residents.
Sponsor: Councilmember Nathan Willett
Council Result: Every member of Council signed on as a sponsor. Council adopted the resolution, 12 ayes, with Councilmember Kevin McManus excused for the meeting.
260894
RESOLUTION – Declaring October 2026 as Arts and Humanities Month in Kansas City.
Sponsor: Councilmember Wes Rogers
Council Result: Council adopted the resolution, 12 ayes.
260822
RESOLUTION – Directing the City Manager to implement recommendations of the Health Commission by retaining the current Safety Net Provider network, establishing enhanced accountability and reporting requirements, and conducting a competitive solicitation for the Health Levy Innovation Fund to identify additional eligible safety net providers; and directing the City Manager to post a competitive solicitation before the end of 2027 for the Safety Net Provider network and award Safety Net Provider contracts for fiscal year 2029 based on the results of that solicitation.
Sponsor: Councilmember Johnathan Duncan
Committee: Neighborhood Planning and Development
Committee Result: After two weeks of holds, the committee landed on a compromise. Everything in the original resolution stays: the detailed reporting standards, contract language requiring that the reporting actually happen on time, and the shift to paying safety net providers by reimbursement rather than up front. What changes is the timing of the competitive solicitation the Health Department wanted. Vice Chair Eric Bunch described the problem as two sided, being uncomfortable both with contracts awarded on a selection made more than thirty years ago and with pulling the rug out from under those providers all at once.
The language Councilmember Melissa Patterson Hazley read directs the City to post a competitive solicitation before the end of 2027, open to all eligible providers, and to award safety net contracts for fiscal year 2029 based on the results. The solicitation results would take effect May 1, 2028. Patterson Hazley said the intent is to collect a full year of data under the new rules first, post the solicitation early enough that providers can prepare, and run the competitive selection the year after. Councilmember Johnathan Duncan, the sponsor, said it accomplishes what he was after.
John Fierro of the Mattie Rhodes Center asked the committee to move faster on getting funds to community organizations, and made a point about the research the delay is meant to allow: federally qualified health centers already have to meet nineteen federal program requirements, one of which obliges them to provide the full range of primary, preventive and enabling care directly or by referral. He said that is already the standard, and suggested making safety net dollars available to help them meet it. Will Franklin, chief executive of KC CARE Health Center, said his clinic receives about $581,000 from the health levy, the smallest share in the program, against roughly $2,100,000 in uncompensated care; at the contracted rate, which runs below Medicaid reimbursement, the number would be closer to $1,200,000. He said KC CARE finished a federal site visit the week before with a 96 percent compliance score and that its data is already public through the federal Uniform Data System. He warned the committee to weigh all of this against 2027, when he expects significant numbers of people to drop off Medicaid, with the state facing a $1,500,000,000 gap between revenue and spending and adult dental coverage on the chopping block. The committee recommended pass as a committee substitute.
Council Result: Council adopted the resolution as substituted, 12 ayes. Councilmember Melissa Patterson Hazley is listed as a co-sponsor alongside Duncan.
260858
Calling an election on April 6, 2027, for the purpose of submitting to the voters of Kansas City a question of whether to enact an ordinance that prohibits City officers, agents, and employees from implementing, advancing, furthering, or fostering a plan to design or construct certain stadiums or arenas without the approval of a majority of voters and providing for penalties for violations thereof; directing the City Clerk to provide notice of the election; enacting the ordinance contingent upon voter approval; and recognizing an accelerated effective date .
Sponsor: Director of Law Department
Committee: Special Committee for Legal Review
Council Result: The question goes to voters on April 6, 2027, and would bar City officers, agents and employees from implementing, advancing or furthering a plan to design or build certain stadiums or arenas without majority voter approval, with penalties attached.
260859
Calling an election on April 6, 2027, for the purpose of submitting a question to the voters of Kansas City that would enact an ordinance that imposes a one-fourth cent (1/4%) sales tax and continues a three-eighths cent (3/8%) sales tax and authorizes the City to seek federal funding and undertake capital improvement projects involving the development of a citywide monorail system, conversion of existing roadways, operation of an electric bus shuttle service, improvements to Penn Valley Park, and establishment of a regional transportation hub at Union Station; directing the City Clerk to provide notice of the election; enacting the sales taxes contingent upon voter approval; reaffirming the use of minority and women ’s business enterprise policies for capital appropriations; stating the City’s intent to submit the sales tax question to the voters; acknowledging that the City is not required to expend funds in excess of revenues to be generated by the sales taxes; authorizing the City Manager to take necessary steps to complete the project supported by tax revenues; directing the City Clerk to provide notice to the recognizing an accelerated effective date.
Sponsor: Director of Law Department
Committee: Special Committee for Legal Review
Council Result: Council passed the ordinance 10-2, with Councilmembers Kevin O’Neill and Crispin Rea Willett voting nay. The question goes to voters on April 6, 2027, as well.
260884
RESOLUTION – Authorizing the Mayor to file an application for the Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-Saving Transportation (PROTECT) grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) for resiliency improvements addressing traffic safety, surface transportation reliability, and stormwater management in and around East 63rd Street and The Paseo Boulevard.
Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas
Committee: Transportation, Infrastructure and Operations
Neighborhood: 49/63 Coalition, Blue Hills, Tri-Blenheim
Committee Result: PROTECT is a federal resiliency grant program. Andy Shively of Water Services said the City applied for this one in February 2025, the program was canceled, but then came back out in September 2026 with applications due October 9. Project manager Laney Carl said the total project is $51,000,000: a $40,800,000 federal ask against a $10,200,000 local match, which the City already has in hand as $6,900,000 from a Mid-America Regional Council surface transportation block grant and $3,300,000 in general obligation bond money. There is $787,000,000 available nationally.
The project would rebuild East 63rd Street, Paseo Boulevard and the Meyer intersection, which floods, has a difficult pedestrian crossing and contributes to combined sewer overflows, and would add green infrastructure and stormwater work across the area. It sits on top of the Town Fork Creek Green Infrastructure and Sewer Separation Project, where the City is already spending more than $90,000,000. Shively said that if the grant does not come through the green infrastructure gets built anyway, funded with wastewater revenue bonds instead. Councilmember Melissa Robinson asked whether the concrete shown along the Paseo in the concept drawing is walkable, and staff said yes, new sidewalks plus walking paths through the green space. Councilmember Johnathan Duncan, whose district borders the site, noted the project also carries water improvements west across Troost. The committee recommended pass as a committee substitute.
Council Result: The substitute shifts who signs the application from the City Manager to the Mayor. Council adopted the resolution as substituted, 12 ayes.
260871
Approving the plat of Rowe Estates, an addition in Platte County, Missouri, on approximately 28.5 acres generally located at 3003 Northwest Oakcrest Drive, creating two lots for the purpose of a residential development; accepting various easements; authorizing the Director of City Planning and Development to execute and/or accept certain agreements; and directing the City Clerk to facilitate the recordation of this ordinance and attached documents. (CLD-FnPlat-2026-00016).
Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department
Committee: Neighborhood Planning and Development
Committee Result: Recommended pass on the consent docket.
Council Result: Council passed the ordinance, 11 ayes to one no, with Councilmember Nathan Willett voting no.
260873
Accepting and approving a one-year $24,000.00 grant with the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (“MDESE”), Office of Childhood, to provide funding for the Childcare Health Consultation program at the Kansas City, Missouri Health Department for FY27, October 1, 2026 – September 30, 2027; estimating and appropriating $24,000.00 in the Health Grants Fund; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
Sponsor: Director of Health Department
Committee: Neighborhood Planning and Development
Committee Result: Recommended pass on the consent docket.
Council Result: Council passed the ordinance, 11 ayes to one no, with Councilmember Nathan Willett voting no.
260877
Accepting and approving a one-year award from Nurture KC to receive capacity grant funding in the amount of $44,900.00 to support the Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) home visiting program; appropriating and estimating the sum of $44,900.00; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
Sponsor: Director of Health Department
Committee: Neighborhood Planning and Development
Committee Result: Recommended pass on the consent docket.
Council Result: Council passed the ordinance, 11 ayes to one no, with Councilmember Nathan Willett voting no.
260881
Authorizing acceptance of Federal Emergency Management Agency grant funds passed through from the Missouri State Emergency Management Agency from the Fiscal Year 2025 Emergency Management Performance Grant in the amount of $93,793.88; estimating revenue and appropriating the sum of $93,793.88 to the General Grants Fund; adjusting appropriation in the General Fund to account for the dollars charged to the grant and the grant match; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
Sponsor: City Manager’s Office
Committee: Neighborhood Planning and Development
Committee Result: Recommended pass on the consent docket.
Council Result: Council passed the ordinance, 11 ayes to one no, with Councilmember Nathan Willett voting no.
260867
Approving and authorizing settlement of a lawsuit entitled April Leonard v. City of Kansas City, Missouri, Case No. 2516-CV07962, in the amount of $900,000.00.
Sponsor: Director of Law Department
Committee: Transportation, Infrastructure and Operations
Committee Result: The committee had been briefed on the settlement already and asked no questions. Recommended pass on the consent docket.
Council Result: Council passed the ordinance, 11 ayes to one no, with Councilmember Nathan Willett voting no.
260836
Accepting the recommendation of the Housing Trust Fund Advisory Board for additional funding in the amount of $1,345,000.00 to the Mohawk at 15th Street project; appropriating $1,345,000.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Housing Trust Fund, Fund No. 2490; authorizing the Manager of Procurement Services to execute the necessary documents to amend the funding agreements and expend up to $1,345,000.00 from the funds appropriated in the Housing Trust Fund; reducing the existing appropriation for the 29th & Belleview Townhomes project by $652,186.00 and returning said funds to the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Housing Trust Fund, Fund No. 2490; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
Sponsor: Director of Housing and Community Development Department
Committee: Neighborhood Planning and Development
Committee Result: The committee substitute first adds $1,345,000 to the Mohawk at 15th Street project in the Crossroads, 190 studio, one and two bedroom units of which 38 are affordable at or below 60 percent of area median income. The project won $925,000 two years ago. During site work crews hit an old petroleum storage tank that had to be removed and then monitored under Missouri Department of Natural Resources requirements, and the delay drove up material and labor costs, opening a $2,580,000 gap. The developer is covering most of that with its own equity and financing. Board vice chair Christina Fenwick said the board liked that the developer came back for less than the full overrun, that the project is genuinely mixed income rather than entirely affordable, and that the cost per affordable unit still lines up with past awards.
The board is pulling $652,186 back out of the 29th and Belleview townhomes, a Hispanic Economic Development Corporation project on West 29th Street that got $360,000 in 2023 for down payment assistance and interest rate buy-downs for first time buyers, and another $292,186 late last year when its gap widened. The developer came back asking to use the money for construction instead, and the number of affordable units had fallen from nine to two or three. At two units that works out to $435,000 of trust fund money per affordable unit, and at three almost $300,000. Staff also doubted the sale proceeds would be enough to repay the trust fund loan, and noted that any further award would breach the cap in the municipal code on how much of a project’s total development cost the fund may carry.
Mayor Pro Tem Ryana Parks-Shaw asked what happens to the townhomes now. Housing and Community Development Director Blaine Proctor said the department is working with the city manager’s office on other funding, likely a public private partnership, a loan or a grant, and that the project will most likely come back as workforce housing rather than affordable housing. Staff put the appraised value of each townhome at $477,000 and said getting one within reach of a buyer at 60 percent of area median income would take enough subsidy to bring the price near $200,000, which the fund cannot do. Taking the trust fund out of the deal frees other lenders to step in. The committee recommended pass as a committee substitute.
Council Result: Council passed the ordinance as substituted, 11 ayes.
260869
Rezoning an area of about 1.68 acres generally located at 911 E. Linwood Boulevard from District UR to District UR and approving a development plan for the redevelopment of an existing six-story apartment building. (CD-CPC-2026-00093)
Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department
Committee: Neighborhood Planning and Development
Neighborhood: Hyde Park
Committee Result: The Belmont Apartments went up around 1912 as a hotel. Since then the building has held Thornton and Minor Hospital, a regional Veterans Administration office and nursing homes, but it has been empty since the mid-1980s. Alec Gustafson of City Planning and Development said the request combines five parcels and replaces the urban redevelopment plan approved for the site in 2016. The building would be restored to its original appearance, with a parking lot behind a perforated brick wall and covered parking on the north end, landscaping along East Linwood Boulevard to screen the lot, and two lots to the west combined as possible public space. The plan needs one deviation, from the boulevard and parkway standards, which otherwise cap a parking lot at 30 percent of the frontage facing a boulevard.
Vice Chair Eric Bunch said the building was almost certainly headed for the wrecking ball and that developer after developer had told him it was not an economically feasible project, so he was glad someone was willing to take the risk, and noted it adds density next to other development going in at Troost. Councilmember Melissa Patterson Hazley, whose sorority’s building is across the street, said she has looked at it for years thinking something had to be done. The committee recommended pass.
Council Result: Council passed the ordinance, 11 ayes, with Patterson Hazley out of the chamber.
260874
Rezoning an area of about 3.4 acres generally located at 6500 Euclid Avenue from District R-0.5 to District B1-1. (CD-CPC-2026-00114).
Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department
Committee: Neighborhood Planning and Development
Neighborhood: Tri-Blenheim
Committee Result: Stephanie Saldari of City Planning and Development said the site already has an office building on it and the area plan already calls for office use there, but office use in the current residential district requires a special use permit. Rezoning it commercial means the building simply meets the standards outright, which matters if the organization ever wants to expand or change something. The block already holds other offices and apartments. Julie Donelon, president and chief executive of MOCSA, said the organization is glad to be in the neighborhood and had held its ribbon cutting that morning. Mayor Pro Tem Ryana Parks-Shaw, who represents the district, said she had been at the event and expected the building to change lives for another fifty years. The committee recommended pass.
Council Result: Council passed the ordinance, 11 ayes.
260875
Changing the name of a roughly 1,700-foot corridor currently known as Northwest 97th Street and Northwest 95th Terrace, to consolidate all segments under the following names: Eagle Way and North Harden Avenue.
Sponsor: Councilmember Nathan Willett
Committee: Transportation, Infrastructure and Operations
Committee Result: Northwest 97th Street runs into Line Creek Parkway and comes out the other side as Northwest 95th Terrace, with the Woodhaven development on the west side, named in 2022, and Erica’s Place on the east, named in 2021. The first idea was to call the whole thing Eagle Way, but after talking to the fire and police departments, staff narrowed it so the corridor runs as Eagle Way from North Colerain and then as an extension of North Harden Avenue, which avoids a one-off name in the middle of the grid. Councilmember Melissa Robinson, the committee’s vice chair, asked whether anyone’s address changes. Smith said no addresses change in Woodhaven, and the homes in Erica’s Place are still under construction with no residents yet, so the developer and builders were notified. Asked where the name came from, Smith said staff did not want to pick the name, so the developer chose Eagle Way because they saw a lot of eagles on the site. The committee recommended pass.
Council Result: Council passed the ordinance, 11 ayes.
260876
Authorizing the Director of Water Services to execute a $202,000.00 Cooperative Agreement with Bridging the Gap, Inc., for the Leak Stoppers Program, Renewal No. 5, for a total agreement amount of $1,119,500.00; and authorizing an extension of the term of Contract No. 20003-5 for an additional three one-year renewal options with further City Council approval for a total term of eight years.
Sponsor: Director of Water Services Department
Committee: Transportation, Infrastructure and Operations
Committee Result: The Leak Stoppers Program has run since 2020. A resident asks for help, Bridging the Gap sends a water and energy specialist to walk the house, and the specialist finds leaks and installs free conservation products. KC Water analyst Hugh Wooden put the costs at about $10 for a conservation kit, about $700 for an average leak, $545 for a toilet replacement and roughly $1,200 if the floor has to be repaired too. In the last fiscal year the program visited more than 500 households, a 10 percent increase, handed out 503 conservation kits, and identified close to 200 minor and 17 complex repairs. It targets the city’s low life expectancy zip codes, and eligibility runs through things like WIC, Social Security, Medicaid, disability, a high bill, or a referral from KC Water or Evergy.
Councilmember Melissa Robinson asked what the City does to reach people before the bill is already high. Wooden said water is the only department that contacts every customer every 30 days through billing, and Bridging the Gap executive director Scott Wagner said his staff tables at community events and neighborhood meetings in those zip codes. Wagner said the program is funded out of non-rate revenue, essentially late fees, and that the honest answer is more money means more capacity. He suggested Council consider more funding in next year’s general fund budget. Wagner, who served on this Council, said the limit is as much staff time as money, since nobody knows what a house needs until someone is inside it. Water Services Director Ken Morgan added a practical reason crews cannot pre-inspect: touch a valve that breaks and you have just obligated yourself to fix it.
Councilmember Robinson said the item deserves more attention, because the consequences of people living without water are severe, and mentioned a resident whose CPAP machine requires it. Wagner added to the sentiment said he remembered a man near the YMCA on Linwood who walked there to shower and use the bathroom before the program reached him. The renewal adds about $20,000 to this year’s contract. The committee recommended pass.
Council Result: Council passed the ordinance, 11 ayes.
260879
Authorizing a $1,500,000.00 professional, specialized, or technical services contract with Kissick Construction Company, LLC, for the City-Wide Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) and Sewer Cleaning Area 1; authorizing a maximum expenditure of $3,000,000.00; authorizing four successive renewal options with further City Council approval; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
Sponsor: Director of Water Services Department
Committee: Transportation, Infrastructure and Operations
Committee Result: Heard together with the companion contract below (260880). These two pay for cleaning and camera inspection of the sewer system, which the City is under federal order to do. Kansas City signed a consent decree with the Environmental Protection Agency in 2010 and is now in year 16 of a 30 year Smart Sewer program; a 2021 modification to that decree requires every sewer asset in the system to be cleaned and inspected on a 10 year cycle. Crews clean the lines, run closed circuit television through them, open stuck manhole covers and locate manholes nobody can find, working mostly on pipes under 48 inches. What the cameras find becomes the planning basis for future rehabilitation work.
The City advertised two identical contracts in April intending to split them between two firms. Three bids came in on May 13, and a fourth arrived after the deadline and was ruled unresponsive. Kissick Construction was the low bidder and takes Area 1. Both contracts carry a 15 percent small business participation goal. The committee recommended pass.
Council Result: Council passed the ordinance, 12 ayes.
260880
Authorizing a $1,500,000.00 professional, specialized or technical services contract with Ace Pipe Cleaning, Inc., for the City-Wide Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) and Sewer Cleaning Area 2; authorizing a maximum expenditure of $3,000,000.00; authorizing four successive renewal options with further City Council approval; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
Sponsor: Director of Water Services Department
Committee: Transportation, Infrastructure and Operations
Committee Result: The second half of the sewer cleaning and inspection work, covering Area 2. Ace Pipe Cleaning was the second ‘lowest and best’ proposer. The committee recommended pass.
Council Result: Council passed the ordinance, 12 ayes.
260882
Reducing previously appropriated funds in the amount of $600,000.00 in the GO Bond Series 2027A Q1-22 Fund; appropriating that amount from the Unappropriated Fund Balance in the GO Bond Series 2027A Q1-22 Fund to the Skatepark at 3rd Street & Woodswether Road project; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
Sponsor: Councilmembers Crispin Rea and Eric Bunch
Committee: Transportation, Infrastructure and Operations
Neighborhood: River Market
Committee Result: City Engineer Nicolas Bosonetto said the committee substitute moves $600,000 out of the Garrison Community Center spray ground, where more was appropriated than Parks needs, and into the skate venue under the Buck O’Neil Bridge at 3rd and Woodswether. Both sites are in the 4th District, so it is the district moving its own bond money around.
The second change was, the City had planned to build it through SourceWell, a cooperative purchasing program, and then learned that state statute does not allow a Missouri municipality over 500,000 people to use that route for a construction contract. Councilmember Eric Bunch asked how many Missouri cities are over 500,000. Staff said Kansas City is the only one they are aware of. Bunch said that seemed specifically targeted and would save the rest of his commentary for later. So the project goes out to bid instead, which staff hopes to do this fall, and the substitute drops the construction award to New Line Skateparks back out of the ordinance.
The plan is to start construction this fall on stormwater and underground work and finish in spring 2027. Bunch, who has pushed the project through Public Improvements Advisory Committee money and 4th District general obligation bond money, said he would like to cut the ribbon before his term is up. The committee recommended pass as a committee substitute.
Council Result: Council passed the ordinance as substituted, 12 ayes.
260883
Authorizing the Director of Public Works to execute a design-build contract with MegaKC Corporation in the amount of $2,300,000.00 for the Wornall Road from West 51st Street to Ward Parkway sidewalk project; authorizing the Director of Public Works to amend and increase this contract by up to twenty percent (20%) without further Council approval; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
Sponsor: Director of Public Works Department
Committee: Transportation, Infrastructure and Operations
Neighborhood: West Plaza
Committee Result: A design-build contract for new sidewalk along Wornall Road between West 51st Street and Ward Parkway, with a 20 percent contingency the Public Works Director can spend without coming back to Council. The project carries 14 percent minority business and 14 percent women’s business participation goals and is paid for out of the Capital Improvements Fund, which the Office of Management and Budget notes is carrying a structural imbalance. The committee recommended pass.
Council Result: Council passed the ordinance, 12 ayes.
260893
Reducing appropriations in the amount of $614,812.00 from the Frank Vaydik Park GO Bond project account; and appropriating $614,812.00 to the Line Creek Community Center GO Bond project account to fund replacement of the existing ice system.
Sponsor: Director of Parks and Recreation Department
Committee: Finance, Governance and Public Safety
Council Result: Parks is moving bond money from the Frank Vaydik Park account to Line Creek Community Center to replace the ice system there. Introduced and referred to the Finance, Governance and Public Safety Committee, due back October 6.
260895
Authorizing the issuance of not to exceed $100,000,000.0 principal amount of Sanitary Sewer System Revenue Bonds (State of Missouri – Direct Loan Program) Series 2026A of the City of Kansas City, Missouri, for the purpose of extending and improving the City’s sanitary sewer system; prescribing the form and details of the bonds and the agreements made by the City to facilitate and protect their payment; renaming Fund No. 8197 of the City; and prescribing other related matters.
Sponsor: Director of Finance Department
Committee: Finance, Governance and Public Safety
Council Result: The first of two state revolving loan borrowings for the sewer system, up to $100,000,000 each. This series is tied to the Todd Creek work. Introduced and referred to the Finance, Governance and Public Safety Committee, due back October 6.
260896
Authorizing the issuance of not to exceed $100,000,000.00 principal amount of Sanitary Sewer System Revenue Bonds (State of Missouri – Direct Loan Program) Series 2026B of the City of Kansas City, Missouri, for the purpose of extending and improving the City’s sanitary sewer system; prescribing the form and details of the bonds and the agreements made by the City to facilitate and protect their payment; renaming Fund No. 8196 of the City; and prescribing other related matters.
Sponsor: Director of Finance Department
Committee: Finance, Governance and Public Safety
Council Result: The second, tied to the Blue River grit facility. Introduced and referred to the Finance, Governance and Public Safety Committee, due back October 6.
260898
Accepting and approving the recommendation of the Tax Increment Financing Commission of Kansas City, Missouri, as to the termination of the 19th Terrace & Central Tax Increment Financing Plan; and acknowledging that the twenty-three statutory periods for the capture of tax increment financing within Redevelopment Project Areas 6, 7, 10, 11, and 13 have expired; terminating the designation of Redevelopment Project Areas 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 13; declaring as surplus those funds within the special allocation fund established in connection with such Redevelopment Project Area; dissolution of the special allocation fund; and directing the City Clerk to send copies of this ordinance to Jackson County.
Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department
Committee: Finance, Governance and Public Safety
Council Result: Closing out the 19th Terrace and Central tax increment financing plan. The statutory capture periods for several of its project areas have run out, and the remaining money in the special allocation fund would be declared surplus. Introduced and referred to the Finance, Governance and Public Safety Committee, due back October 6.
260899
Accepting and approving the recommendation of the Tax Increment Financing Commission of Kansas City, Missouri, as to the termination of the Prospect North Tax Increment Financing Plan and the termination of the designation of Redevelopment Project Area 1, 2, and 3; declaring as surplus those funds within the special allocation fund established in connection with such Redevelopment Project Area; and directing the City Clerk to send copies of this ordinance to Clay County.
Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department
Committee: Finance, Governance and Public Safety
Council Result: Introduced and referred to the Finance, Governance and Public Safety Committee, due back October 6.
260900
Detaching from the City of Kansas City approximately 27,382 square feet, or 0.63 acres generally including three properties located in the Northwest Quarter of Sections 32 of Township 50 North, Range 32 West of the 5th Principal Meridian; and directing the City Manager to file certified copies of this ordinance with the required Jackson County officials. (CD-CPC-2026-00088)
Sponsor: Director of Public Works Department
Committee: Finance, Governance and Public Safety
Council Result: Detaching about two thirds of an acre, covering three properties, from the city limits. Introduced and referred to the Finance, Governance and Public Safety Committee, due back October 6.
260897
Estimating and appropriating $28,063.00 in the General Grants Fund (Fund 2580); reducing an appropriation of $32,578.75 and appropriating $4,515.75 in the Domestic Violence Grant Fund (Fund 2470), authorizing the City Manager to accept a 12 month grant under the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) of 1984 administered by the State of Missouri’s Department of Public Safety, in the amount of $28,063.00 to partially fund one full-time victim assistant in the City Prosecutor’s Office and designating requisitioning authority.
Sponsor: Director of Law Department
Committee: Neighborhood Planning and Development
Council Result: A federal Victims of Crime Act grant that pays part of the cost of one full-time victim assistant in the City Prosecutor’s Office. Introduced and referred to the Neighborhood Planning and Development Committee, due back October 6.
260901
Authorizing the Manager of Procurement Services to execute a three (3) year $6,510,398.00 contract with VMD Systems Integrators, LLC to provide Aviation Worker screening; and authorizing the Manager of Procurement Services to amend and extend the contract with additional council approval.
Sponsor: Directors of the General Services and Aviation Departments
Committee: Transportation, Infrastructure and Operations
Council Result: A three year, $6,510,398 contract for screening airport workers. Introduced and referred to the Transportation, Infrastructure and Operations Committee.
260902
Appropriating $10,000.00 to support JuneteenthKC’s financial empowerment and wealth activity; directing the City Manager to propose up to $75,000.00 in submitted budgets for FY27-28 as sustained funding for JuneteenthKC; directing the City Manager to review Neighborhood Tourist Development Fund allocations over the past ten years and recommend 2027 budget policies to stabilize and invest in City heritage festivals with a ten-year or longer funding history with the City; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
Sponsor: Councilmember Melissa Robinson
Committee: Neighborhood Planning and Development
Council Result: Beyond the $10,000 for JuneteenthKC, the ordinance asks the City Manager to budget up to $75,000 for it in fiscal year 2027 to 2028 and to look back at ten years of Neighborhood Tourist Development Fund awards, then recommend 2027 budget policy for heritage festivals that have a decade or more of City funding behind them. Introduced from the floor and referred to the Neighborhood Planning and Development Committee, due back October 6.
260903
Authorizing the Director of General Services to negotiate and execute an amendment to the lease with Kansas City Blues Juke House, LLC for the property located at 1700 East 18th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64108 for an additional five (5) year term; and authorizing the Director of General Services to waive rents in an amount not to exceed $60,000.00.
Sponsor: Councilmember Melissa Robinson
Committee: Special Committee for Legal Review
Neighborhood: Wendell Phillips and Downtown East
Council Result: A five year lease extension for the Kansas City Blues Juke House at 1700 East 18th Street in the 18th and Vine district, with authority to waive up to $60,000 in rent. Introduced from the floor and referred to the Special Committee for Legal Review, due back October 6.
260850
Amending Ordinance No. 260207 by repealing Section 1 and enacting in its place a new Section 1 adjusting tax levy rates for the General Fund, Health Levy Fund, General Debt and Interest Fund, and Museum Special Revenue Fund; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
Sponsor: Director of Finance Department
Committee: Finance, Governance and Public Safety
Council Result: This is the annual property tax levy ordinance that failed on a 5 to 7 vote last week. Council moved to reconsider it, and the second time through it carried. The reconsideration and the motion to advance both passed with only Councilmember Nathan Willett voting no; on final passage Mayor Pro Tem Ryana Parks-Shaw joined him, and the ordinance passed 10 to 2.
Nothing in the ordinance changed. It sets the rate at $1.54 per $100 of assessed value against the $1.50 Council adopted in March, a four cent increase spread across the general, health and museum funds, which staff put at about $15 a year on a $200,000 home and roughly $3,000,000 across the three funds. Because assessed value in Jackson County fell, the Hancock Amendment formula raises the rate to keep revenue roughly level. The certified rates had to go to the four counties by October 1 for bills mailed November 1.
260870
Approving a development plan on about 0.23 acres generally located at the northwest corner of 10th Street and Central Avenue in District DC-15 allowing for the creation of a 384 foot structure which will contain ground floor retail and a data center. (CD-CPC-2026-00074)
Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department
Committee: Neighborhood Planning and Development
Neighborhood: Downtown
Committee Result: The 384 foot tower with ground floor retail and a data center above it, at 10th and Central. Held until October 13 at the start of the meeting, with no discussion.
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)
Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department
Committee: Neighborhood Planning and Development
Committee Result: Fourth time before the committee, and the longest hearing of the week. Most of the fight is settled. The original condition would have made the developer extend a water main clear across to the next owner’s property; the committee agreed earlier to stop it halfway in front of Staley High School. The condition directing the City itself to build the rest got cut, because, as Councilmember Nathan Willett put it, the next developer would otherwise ask why the City did not extend it onto their property too. One condition requiring the $500,000 payment appeared twice, so staff deleted the duplicate.
What is left is a $500,000 payment the developer owes in place of building half street improvements along Staley Road, and the two sides walked out of a Monday meeting with opposite understandings of it. Willett said the deal was $500,000 minus the value of land the developer is dedicating at a dangerous intersection, and that the engineer had floated also subtracting the cost of a historic survey. The developer said he agreed to pay for the water line extension onto his own property on the condition that the $500,000 went away entirely, and that he has said so for months. He typed up the conditions after the Monday call, sent them out, got no objections, and then arrived to find the $500,000 back in. Mayor Pro Tem Ryana Parks-Shaw cut off the argument over who said what, telling Willett the committee cannot referee a meeting it was not in and that he needed to be firm about his own recommendation.
The archaeological study needed to locate the slave cemetery on or near the site will also tell the City where it can build its own road, so staff was willing to credit that cost against the $500,000. The land is worth roughly $60,000 by a desktop appraisal and the study is estimated at $50,000 to $80,000. The City Attorney’s office said it could not see the connection between an obligation the developer has under state law on unmarked burial grounds and a separate obligation to contribute toward right-of-way, and Councilmember Melissa Patterson Hazley translated: crediting it means the City is buying a study the applicant has to do anyway. Staff also pointed out the right-of-way is already inside the $500,000 condition, which reads as a financial and right-of-way contribution, so only the study credit was actually in play.
Vice Chair Eric Bunch said he did not need the ‘he said, she said’, because the code of ordinances is clear and exists precisely because water lines keep not getting built where they are supposed to go. He said he had never seen a negotiation run this way, would not cover the cost of a study required by state law, and would not vote for anything while the matter was still in dispute. The developer asked to hold it. Held another week.
260808
Rezoning an area of about 53 acres generally located at 13131 N. U.S. 169 Highway from District R-80 to District AG-R and approving a development plan to allow for an expansion of a utility substation. (CD-CPC-2026-00096 & CD-CPC-2026-00097)
Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department
Committee: Neighborhood Planning and Development
Committee Result: Held one week, a second time.
260711
Authorizing the Manager of Procurement services to execute a one-year contract renewal (6224020014) in the amount $1,942,859 with LAZ Parking Midwest, LLC to continue performing Curbside Traffic Management and Traffic Control responsibilities; and authorizing the Manager of Procurement services to amend and renew the contract for up to four (4) additional one-year terms without City Council authorization.
Sponsor: Director of General Services Department
Committee: Transportation, Infrastructure and Operations
Neighborhood:
Committee Result: Held one week.
260852
Authorizing the Manager of Procurement Services to execute a one (1) year contract renewal for indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity construction contracts (No. EV3052) that may exceed $1,000,000.00 with Mark One Electric Co, Inc., Vazquez Commercial Contracting, LLC, and Alpha Energy and Electric, Inc. to provide electrical maintenance and repair services at various City-owned facilities; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
Sponsor: Director of General Services Department
Committee: Transportation, Infrastructure and Operations
Committee Result: Held one week, a second time.
Land Development Division update
A quarterly update from the Land Development Division on plan review and permit turnaround times.
Committee: Neighborhood Planning and Development
Committee Result: The division moved back to City Planning and Development earlier this year after a stint in Public Works, and Mayor Pro Tem Ryana Parks-Shaw opened by saying she has been getting calls from developers worried about the process since the May 1 change. The first review went down from 17 days to 15 to 11, average application time down to 29 days, resubmissions down, and permit review times falling as well. Staff cautioned that this is one quarter, May 1 through August 31, and that January will be the first point with half a year of data. Permit volume over the last couple of months has run higher than the last three years. Staff credited a more experienced team and some recent consultant help, said the dashboard was reconfigured but the underlying questions and data points were not changed, and said two or three staffing vacancies still need filling to hold the gains.
Parks-Shaw said she wanted to see the live dashboard rather than a slide, which took several minutes and a Teams connection to arrange, and told staff plainly that if the trend is good but individual developers are still not getting served, she needs to know what they need. Staff agreed and asked for specifics rather than generalities. She said she plans to reconvene the developer group. Asked about the artificial intelligence tools the department has discussed, staff said a pilot challenge is out on the street now for single family residential: three teams will be selected to try to cut quality control review from days to half a day or thirty minutes, on a six month timeline, with a winner expected around March or April. No action was taken.
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