Mayor & Council Consider Kansas City Jail Tax Amid Rising Crime

These efforts are NEVER popular and often meet with resistance.

However . . . 

This town is BADLY in need a jail facility and the spike in crime might be convincing more voters of this fact of life.

A noteworthy discussion today . . .

"Members of Kansas City Council's finance committee heard an ordinance to put a renewal of the 1/4th-cent public safety sales tax on the April ballot — which would allow the city to fund the construction of a new rehabilitation and detention center."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Kansas City might ask voters to help fund a new jail by passing a sales tax renewal

Kansas City Council members are working on details to fund the construction of a new jail. Next spring, voters could be asked whether to renew the public safety sales tax in order to build an estimated 250-bed rehabilitation and detention center.