While the Kansas City city council held off on decisions on a daytime curfew and putting a no nukes petition initiative on the ballot, it had no difficulty deciding that rejuvenation is needed in the central city.
One controversial area of Kansas City's budget is not likely to be finalized by approval day next Thursday: the matter of how the Fire Department will cut $7.5 million from its budget.
Kansas City Mayor Sly James and the council are having their final meetings this week and next over the city's budget, which is more than a billion dollars.
Kansas City has moved a little closer to a startup streetcar line between downtown and Crown Center. A pair of measures have been approved to help toward a federal grant.
Still racing to meet a March 19th deadline for federal grant applications, a city council committee has endorsed rezoning the area around a proposed downtown streetcar system.
A city council committee heard pros and cons of two ballot initiatives from a no-nukes organization Wednesday but postponed a decision on whether they will go to the voters.
A Metro North Shopping Center area revitalization initiative won some help from the city of Kansas City Thursday. The city council gave formal approval to a Metro North Area Community Improvement District.
