Jackson County To Vote On Charter Revisions

KCUR | By Susan B. Wilson

Published August 2, 2010 at 11:07 AM CDT

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Jackson County voters will decide whether to approve revisions to the county charter on Tuesday's primary ballot. The amended charter was developed by a task force chaired by former Kansas City Mayor Kay Barnes.

See the revisions on the Jackson County website: each reference to a "chairman" has been replaced by a "chairperson" and "he" is made gender neutral. But besides making the document more politically correct, the revisions are also intended to "clean up" the way Jackson County conducts business.

KCUR's Susan Wilson caught up with County Executive Mike Sanders, who's pushed for many of these changes.

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A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Susan admits that her “first love” was radio, being an avid listener since childhood. However, she spent much of her career in mental health, healthcare administration, and sports psychology (Susan holds a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and an MBA from the Bloch School of Business at UMKC.) In the meantime, Wilson satisfied her journalistic cravings by doing public speaking, providing “expert” interviews for local television, and being a guest commentator/contributor to KPRS’s morning drive time show and the teen talk show “Generation Rap.”

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