Sadly, it seems that this Christmas the leaders of Kansas City are focused on garnering, shifting and amassing taxpayer funds in order to garner more autonomy and fewer checks and balances from taxpayers.
Examples . . .
- The $800 MILLION GO Bond initiative has very few deets and/or commitments to the so-called "infrastructure" improvements touted. There's talk of an animal shelter that everybody wants but little else put down in writing.
- Northeast News has performed some EXCELLENT JOURNALISM ON PROPOSED REVISIONS TO PIAC that would turn the system into nothing more than a City Manager slush fund.
And now . . .
CHECK OUT CITY HALL LOOTING THE NEIGHBORHOOD TOURIST DEVELOPMENT FUND IN ORDER TO CREATE ANOTHER CREATIVE CLASS SLUSH FUND FOR GROUPS POLITICALLY ALIGNED WITH CITY HALL AND THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION!!!
Here's an unsigned emergency ordinance with no sponsor listed that will shift nearly $150K to be directly awarded rather than working its way through the NTDF review process . . .
Ordinance #160941: Appropriating $149,113.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Neighborhood Tourist Development Fund; approving contracts with nonprofit organizations for the purpose of promoting neighborhoods through cultural, social, ethnic, historic, educational, and recreational activities; amending Section 3 of Ordinance No. 160734 to replace Mid-America Regional Council with KC Creates as the eligible nonprofit organization to serve as the fiscal agent and umbrella organization for production of the KCMO arts festival; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
Accordingly . . .
LIKE IT OR NOT, THIS IS CREATIVE CLASS LOOTING OF CITY HALL TO CREATE A SLUSH FUND BEYOND THE SCOPE OF CHECKS AND BALANCES PROVIDED BY COUNCIL APPOINTED RESIDENTS ON NTDF REVIEWING THESE EFFORTS!!!
This Christmas, in plain sight but under the nose of most Kansas City "journalists" . . . The current cabal at 12th & Oak have worked to establish one slush fund after the next in order to deny residents participation in funding processes or any real involvement in how City Hall funds are spent. Call it a slush fund, power grab or simply politics as usual in Kansas City . . . What's clear is that resident and voters interaction is being severely limited in a concerted effort by KCMO politicos and bureaucrats to garner more power over taxpayer money.
Developing . . .
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