Finance, Governance and Public Safety Committee — meeting minutes (June 3, 2025)

PUBLIC OBSERVANCE OF MEETINGS Members of the City Council may attend this meeting via videoconference. Any closed session may be held via teleconference. The public can observe this meeting at the links provided below. Applicants and citizens wishing to participate have the option of attending each meeting or they may do so through the videoconference platform ZOOM, using this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84530222968 ***Public Testimony is Limited to 2 Minutes***

FIRST READINGS

Sponsor: Councilmember Melissa Robinson COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE RESOLUTION - Directing the City Manager to develop a strategy for the implementation of the ProspectUS Equitable Transit Oriented Development Strategic Plan that includes $500 million of investment over 10 years; directing the City Manager to negotiate with the Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City to include the creation of a ProspectUs advisory group and the funding of a ProsectUS Plan Manager in the 2026-2027 EDC Annual Contract.

Sponsor: Councilmember Eric Bunch COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE Authorizing the City Manager to negotiate and enter into cooperative agreements between the City of Kansas City, Missouri, and Ballard Development, LLC (“Developer”) for the development, funding, use and maintenance of a promenade and related improvements along the levee of the Missouri River and adjacent property in the Berkley Riverfront Area.

Sponsor: Councilmember Crispin Rea Amending Chapter 10, Code of Ordinances, Alcoholic Beverages, by repealing and replacing Section 10-134, Downtown Economic District for the purpose adjusting and providing clarification regarding the area included within existing promotional association sub-zones and creating a new promotional association sub-zone.

Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas RESOLUTION - Expressing the City Council’s desire that the Kansas City Police Department (“KCPD”) activate steady blue cruise lights on marked police vehicles to increase visibility and deter crime.

Sponsor: Councilmember Wes Rogers COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE Establishing the Small Business Storefront Vacancy Revitalization program (the “Pilot Program”) for the purpose of revitalizing vacant storefronts in Kansas City in anticipation of the 2026 World Cup games; authorizing the Director of Neighborhood Services to enter into an agreement with the Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City in an amount not to exceed $1,400,000.00 for the purpose of administering the Pilot Program; reducing previously appropriated funds in the Development Services Fund by $1,000,000.00 and appropriating the same for the Pilot Program; reducing previously appropriated funds in the Economic Development Fund by $400,000.00 and appropriating the same; designating requisitioning authority; directing the City Manager to submit a subsequent ordinance to the City Council for review and approval of Pilot Program recipients; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.

Sponsor: Councilmember Crispin Rea COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE Amending Chapter 70, Code of Ordinances, by repealing Section 70-642, Vehicles and property subject to impoundment, and Section 70-749, Operation of all-terrain and off-road vehicles, and enacting in lieu thereof new sections of like number and subject matter; and directing the City Manager to seek, as a pretrial condition of release or probation for any prosecuted violation of the Code of Ordinances involving vehicles unlawful to operate on the streets and highways, that the defendant be prohibited from operating such vehicles.

Sponsor: Councilmember Crispin Rea COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE Amending Chapter 48, Code of Ordinances, by repealing Section 48-51, Chronic nuisance, and enacting in lieu thereof a new section of like number and subject matter.

HELD IN COMMITTEE

Sponsor: City Manager COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE Amending Chapter 2, Code of Ordinances, by repealing and replacing Article IX, Division 8, “Healthcare System,” consisting of Sections 2-1390-2-1394 with a new Division 8 of like title consisting of Sections 2-1390-1393, to amend the name and membership of the Healthcare System Board of Trustees to the Healthcare System Board and to establish regulations for its operation; amending Workers’ Compensation Sections 2-1302 and 2-1304, with new sections of like number and subject matter, to amend the membership of the Workers’ Compensation Board and address compensability; and repealing Ordinance Nos. 180420 and 180775 for the purpose of reallocating healthcare association resources to the Healthcare System Fund.

Sponsor: Councilmember Melissa Robinson COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE Appropriating $1,500,000.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Housing Trust Fund for the purpose of providing funds for the Olive Street / Promise Place housing project consisting of 85 units; designating requisitioning authority; conditioning funding on the application and award of low-income housing tax credits (LIHTC) by December 31, 2025; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.

ADDITIONAL BUSINESS

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Adjournment