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Tax breaks for Katz Drug Store project in Westport advance despite objections


Tax breaks for Katz Drug Store project in Westport advance despite objections
Steve Vockrodt, The Kansas City Star
Jun. 16 A Kansas City Council committee on Wednesday approved tax breaks for a developer who plans to build new apartments while also fixing up the historic Katz Drug Store Building in Westport.
Lux Living, based in St. Louis, proposes building a six-story, 192-unit apartment building on top of underground parking behind the Katz Building at Westport Road and Main Street. The overall cost of the project is $37.6 million.
The developer sought tax breaks that exceeded what an independent analysis showed was necessary for the project, but the council committee ended up passing a reduced level of benefits. The full Kansas City Council is expected to take the issue up Thursday for a final vote. ....

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Kansas City Mayor Lucas proposes reallocation of KCPD budget to community efforts


Kansas City Mayor Lucas proposes reallocation of KCPD budget to community efforts
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Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas announced Thursday two pieces of legislation that he says will “vastly increase accountability for the Kansas City Police Department, enhance police-community relations, and make Kansas City safer.”
According to Lucas, the ordinances would amend the Kansas City FY 21-22 budget to fund the Kansas City Police Department to the 20% minimum of Kansas City’s general revenue as compelled by the Missouri Legislature.Sign up for our Newsletters
Lucas said the ordinances would reallocate the remainder of the previously-allocated KCPD budget to a new Community Services and Prevention Fund, and he directs the city manager to “enter into a contract with the Board of Police Commissioners to provide certain community engagement, outreach, prevention, intervention, and other public services, including as necessary providing for an addition ....

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Northeast News | Mayor seeks to increase KCPD accountability through budget amendment


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Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas has introduced two pieces of legislation to increase accountability for the Kansas City Police Department (KCPD), to enhance police-community relations, and to make Kansas City safer. 
Co-sponsors include Third District at-Large Councilmember Brandon Ellington, Third District Councilmember Melissa Robinson, Fourth District at-Large Councilmember Katheryn Shields, Fourth District Councilmember Eric Bunch, Fifth District at-Large Councilmember Lee Barnes, Jr., Fifth District Councilmember Ryana Parks-Shaw, Sixth District at-Large Councilmember Andrea Bough, and Sixth District Councilmember Kevin McManus.
“Since the 1980s, when I was born, there have been 4,467 murders in Kansas City nearly double the number of Americans killed in Afghanistan in 2001,” Lucas said. “Every single life we’ve lost to violent crime is a life lost too soon and it was preventable. Doing the same thing we’ve been doing for generations blank ch ....

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