Eight members of the Kansas City City Council unanimously decided to waste spend $500,000 to study whether building a 1,000 room convention hotel is a good idea.
The man with the shiniest head, Terry Riley, tried to delay the hotel study vote, and councilwoman Sharon Sanders Brooks seconded. But only Riley, SSB and Deb Hermann voted in favor of waiting.
Voting to spend the money on the study: Ed Ford, Melba Curls, Beth Gottstein, Jan Marcason and John Sharp. Absent were oversized novelty Mayor Mark Funkhouser and council members Russ Johnson, Bill Skaggs, Cathy Jolly and Cindy Circo.
Sharp played the scary St. Louis card: If stimulus funds are available, he doesn't want KC to get shut out.
So they voted ... to spend half-a-million dollars ... to study whether building a convention hotel is a good idea (it's not) ... and to form a massive, 21-member steering committee. See for yourself.
Next week, they look at studying whether lighting $500,000 on fire is a good idea.
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Why doesn't the city ask a local university to do the study?? Good summer project for a class and a hell of a lot cheaper.
Hey KC City Council--The bus system is missing 9 million dollars! Thousands of people East of Troost are in severe poverty! What about that billion dollar sewer system we need so desperately?
Let's just be honest, nobody is against downtown redevelopment. But, when we could be encouraging small businesses to open, working on really getting people to move back downtown, etc. the council spends our money on senseless projects.
What we need is some leadership, somebody to really slap the council members around a little, wake them up!! It would be great to have some real members of the community serving on the council like an urban planner or a teacher or somebody who works for a non-for-profit.
Thanks for the update. This is a monumentally stupid waste of money. Here's what the study will say: KC needs a hotel with 1,055 rooms (1,000 is too round a number; they have to make it look like they're earning their money). Otherwise, we will be losing eleventy point five billion dollars per annum to the likes of St. Louis, Louisville, and Indianapolis.
Guaran-damn-teed. I would have told them that for a bottle of Saison-Brett and a Juicy Lucy from the Foundry.
Horse. Shit.
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