Finance, Governance and Public Safety Committee

Tuesday, December 9, 2025 · 10:30 AM AM · 26th Floor, Council Chamber

TL;DR

The Finance, Governance and Public Safety Committee held its meeting with a focus on several Tax Increment Financing (TIF) plans and city infrastructure projects. The committee advanced multiple TIF plans and considered significant proposals including a $750 million waterworks bond referendum and a continuation of the city's earnings tax. Several items were held for further review or future meetings.

Key Decisions

Waterworks Revenue Bond Proposal Held on Agenda
Transit Services Agreement with KCATA Passed as Committee Substitute
Earnings Tax Continuation Held on Agenda for April 7, 2026 Election
Bloomberg Sustainable Cities Grant Advanced and Passed
Multiple Tax Increment Financing Plans Advanced and Passed

Agenda PDF

Agenda

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
BEGINNING OF CONSENT(S)
251011 Sponsor: City Manager’s Office Determining that the Brush Creek Corridor Tax Increment Financing Plan is making satisfactory progress under the proposed time schedule for completion of the projects therein.
Ordinance
Action: Adv and Do Pass, Consent

Adv and Do Pass, Consentto the Council due back on 12/11/2025
251012 Sponsor: City Manager’s Office Determining that the Hotel Phillips Tax Increment Financing Plan is making satisfactory progress under the proposed time schedule for completion of the projects therein.
Ordinance
Action: Adv and Do Pass, Consent

Adv and Do Pass, Consentto the Council due back on 12/11/2025
251013 Sponsor: City Manager’s Office Determining that the Gateway 2000 Tax Increment Financing Plan is making satisfactory progress under the proposed time schedule for completion of the projects therein.
Ordinance
Action: Adv and Do Pass, Consent

Adv and Do Pass, Consentto the Council due back on 12/11/2025
251014 Sponsor: City Manager’s Office Determining that the Revised Commerce Tower Village Tax Increment Financing Plan is making satisfactory progress under the proposed time schedule for completion of the projects therein.
Ordinance
Action: Adv and Do Pass, Consent

Adv and Do Pass, Consentto the Council due back on 12/11/2025
251015 Sponsor: City Manager’s Office Determining that the Kansas City Convention Center Headquarters Hotel Tax Increment Financing Plan is making satisfactory progress under the proposed time schedule for completion of the projects therein.
Ordinance
Action: Adv and Do Pass, Consent

Adv and Do Pass, Consentto the Council due back on 12/11/2025
251016 Sponsor: City Manager’s Office Determining that the Pioneer Plaza Tax Increment Financing Plan is making satisfactory progress under the proposed time schedule for completion of the projects therein.
Ordinance
Action: Adv and Do Pass, Consent

Adv and Do Pass, Consentto the Council due back on 12/11/2025
FIRST READINGS
250984 Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department Accepting and approving the recommendation of the Tax Increment Financing Commission of Kansas City, Missouri, as to the termination of the designation of Redevelopment Project Area E (“Project Area E”), Redevelopment Project Area F (“Project Area F”), Redevelopment Project Area L (“Project Area L”), Redevelopment Project Area M (“Project Area M”) of the Southtown Corridor /31st and Baltimore Tax Increment Financing Plan; acknowledging that the twenty-three-year statutory period for the capture of tax increment allocation financing within Redevelopment Project Area J has expired; declaring as surplus those funds within the special allocation fund(s) established in connection with each of Redevelopment Project Areas E, F, J, L, and M; dissolving the special allocation fund(s) established in connection with such Redevelopment Project Areas; and directing the City Clerk to send copies of this ordinance to Jackson County.
Ordinance
Action: Adv and Do Pass, Consent

Adv and Do Pass, Consentto the Council due back on 12/11/2025
250985 Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department Approving the Thirteenth Amendment to the Southtown Corridor/31st & Baltimore Tax Increment Financing Plan; and directing the City Clerk to send copies of this ordinance to Jackson County.
Ordinance
Action: Adv and Do Pass, Consent

Adv and Do Pass, Consentto the Council due back on 12/11/2025
250993 Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE Cancelling the City Council standing committee meetings and business and legislative sessions of the weeks of January 19, 2026, February 16, 2026, March 16, 2026, April 27, 2026, May 25, 2026, June 1, 2026, June 15, 2026, June 29, 2026, August 17, 2026, August 24, 2026, September 7, 2026, September 14, 2026, October 12, 2026, November 16, 2026, November 23, 2026, December 21, 2026, and December 28, 2026.
Ordinance
Action: Do Pass as Committee Substitute

Do Pass as Committee Substituteto the Council due back on 12/11/2025
250996 Sponsor: Councilmember Crispin Rea RESOLUTION - Expressing the Council’s intent to advocate for legislation that would authorize the City to enact an ordinance to provide for the lawful seizure, impounding, and disposition of all-terrain vehicles or off-road vehicles unlawfully operating on the highways, streets, or rights-of-way within the City.
Resolution
Action: Hold off Agenda

Hold off Agenda
250999 Sponsor: Councilmember Crispin Rea Amending Chapter 3, Code of Ordinances, by repealing Section 3-31 Contract award, and enacting in lieu thereof a new section of like number and subject matter.
Ordinance
Action: Hold on Agenda

Hold on Agendato the Council due back on 1/6/2026
251001 Sponsor(s): Councilmembers Kevin O’Neill and Wes Rogers COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE Authorizing the City Manager to enter into Amendment No. 1 to the 2025-2026 Transit Services Agreement with the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority in the amount of $3,918,655.00 to provide Fiscal Year 2026 IRIS service and limiting service to the Northland of Kansas City beginning on January 1, 2026; appropriating $3,918,655.00 for street resurfacing from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Capital Improvements Sales Tax Fund (3090); reducing $3,918,655.00 of street resurfacing expenditures in the Public Mass Transportation Fund (2080); increasing $3,918,655.00 of street resurfacing expenditures in the Capital Improvements Sales Tax Fund (3090); reducing $3,918,655.00 in appropriations and appropriating $3,918,655.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Public Mass Transportation Fund (2080); appropriating $3,918,655.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the General Fund; designating requisitioning authority; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
Ordinance
Action: Do Pass as Committee Substitute

Do Pass as Committee Substituteto the Council due back on 12/11/2025
251008 Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department Approving the Fourteenth Amendment to the Briarcliff West Tax Increment Financing Plan.
Ordinance
Action: Adv and Do Pass, Consent

Adv and Do Pass, Consentto the Council due back on 12/11/2025
251010 Sponsor: City Manager’s Office Approving the Second Amendment to the Prospect North Tax Increment Financing Plan; and authorizing the City Manager to enter into a Reimbursement Agreement between City of Kansas City and the TIF Commission
Ordinance
Action: Adv and Do Pass, Consent

Adv and Do Pass, Consentto the Council due back on 12/11/2025
251026 Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas and City Manager COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE Amending Chapter 2, Code of Ordinances, “Administration,” by repealing and replacing Section 2-89 for the purpose of clarifying authority over employees in the administrative service and reauthorizing and amending the City Manager’s authority to enter into severance agreements with unclassified employees.
Ordinance
Action: Do Pass as Committee Substitute

Do Pass as Committee Substituteto the Council due back on 12/11/2025
251027 Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas Providing for submission to the qualified voters of the City for their approval at an election called for April 7, 2026, the question of authorizing the issuance of waterworks revenue bonds of the City in the principal amount of $750,000,000.00 for the purpose of rehabilitating, improving and extending the waterworks system of the City, including acquiring necessary land and rights of way, in order to provide for its continuing operation and to maintain compliance with federal, state and judicial requirements; directing the City Clerk to notify the responsible election authorities of this election; declaring the City’s intention to set rates; declaring the City’s intention to reimburse itself from revenue bond proceeds for bond related expenditures; recognizing this ordinance to have an accelerated effective; and establishing an effective date for the voter authorization.
Ordinance
Action: Hold on Agenda

Hold on Agendato the Council due back on 12/16/2025
251028 Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas and Councilmembers Nathan Willett and Johnathan Duncan, and Darrell Curls Amending Chapter 50, Code of Ordinances, by enacting a new section 50-206 and 50-207 for the purpose of prohibiting the sale of certain psychoactive substances and dangerous chemical inhalants within the City.
Ordinance
Action: Hold on Agenda

Hold on Agendato the Council due back on 1/6/2026
251029 Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas Calling for submission to the voters of Kansas City, at an election to be held on the general municipal election day of April 7, 2026, a question of whether to continue Kansas City’s current one-percent earnings tax for five years; directing the City Clerk to provide notice of the election; and recognizing an accelerated effective date.
Ordinance
Action: Hold on Agenda

Hold on Agendato the Council due back on 12/16/2025
251030 Sponsor: Director of Finance Department COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE Authorizing the Manager of Procurement Services to execute $25,405,195.00 ten-year contract (EV3002) with Iron Brick Associates, LLC to provide the Workday SaaS enterprise resource planning (ERP) system; authorizing the Manager of Procurement Services to amend the contract and execute up to two five-year optional contract renewal terms subject to appropriation of funds; and designating requisitioning authority.
Ordinance
Action: Adv and Do Pass, Consent

Adv and Do Pass, Consentto the Council due back on 12/11/2025
251033 Sponsor: Director of Parks and Recreation Department Waiving the limitations established by the Fund Balance and Reserve Policy in Section 2-1954 of the Code of Ordinances; appropriating $2,031,975.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Parks and Recreation Fund for maintenance projects at Gregg/Klice Community Center pool, Penguin Park, and the Parks and Recreation Administration building; designating requisitioning authority; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date. ***** THIS ORDINANCE WILL BE HELD UNTIL DECEMBER 16 2025*****
Ordinance
Action: Hold on Agenda

Hold on Agendato the Council due back on 12/16/2025
251036 Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas RESOLUTION - Establishing the City of Kansas City's major priorities and positions on matters of regional importance to the Kansas City metropolitan area and for the 2026 session of the Kansas State Legislature.
Resolution
Action: Be Adopted

Be Adoptedto the Council due back on 12/11/2025
251037 Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas RESOLUTION - Establishing the City of Kansas City's legislative priorities and positions on matters that may come before the remainder of the 119th United States Congress in 2026.
Resolution
Action: Be Adopted

Be Adoptedto the Council due back on 12/11/2025
251038 Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas RESOLUTION - Establishing the City of Kansas City's major legislative priorities and positions on matters for the 2026 session of the Missouri General Assembly.
Resolution
Action: Be Adopted

Be Adoptedto the Council due back on 12/11/2025
251042 Sponsor: Councilmember Crispin Rea COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE Approving the recommendations of the Tax Increment Financing Commission of Kansas City, Missouri as to the 800 Grand Tax Increment Financing Plan and approving the 800 Grand Tax Increment Financing Plan; approving the City’s contribution of Additional EATs generated in the Plan Area; and authorizing the City Manager to enter into a Tax Contribution and Disbursement Agreement with the Kansas City TIF Commission and 800 Grand KCMO LLC.
Ordinance
Action: Adv and Do Pass as Cmte Sub, Consent

Adv and Do Pass as Cmte Sub, Consentto the Council due back on 12/11/2025
251043 Sponsor: Councilmember Crispin Rea Approving and designating Redevelopment Project Area 1 of to the 800 Grand Tax Increment Financing Plan; and adopting tax increment financing therefore.
Ordinance
Action: Hold off Agenda

Hold off Agenda
251044 Sponsor: Councilmember Andrea Bough Accepting a $1,254,374.00 Bloomberg American Sustainable Cities Grant (the “Grant”) to proactively build low-carbon, resilient, and economically thriving communities; authorizing a contract with John Hopkins University to implement the Grant; appropriating and estimating revenue in the amount of $1,254,374.00; designating requisitioning authority; and authorizing the City Manager to amend and extend the contract.
Ordinance
Action: Adv and Do Pass

Adv and Do Passto the Council due back on 12/11/2025
HELD IN COMMITTEE
250553 Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas RESOLUTION - Expressing the need for and desire to implement a software grant management system.
Resolution
Action: Hold on Agenda

Hold on Agendato the Council due back on 12/16/2025
ADDITIONAL BUSINESS
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Adjournment

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