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| Funding for county jail angers KC police |
| By CHRISTINE VENDEL - The Kansas City Star |
| Published: 02/25/2009 |
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Kansas City MO - City Manager Wayne Cauthen wants to use $1.5 million from a public safety sales tax to expand the Jackson County Jail — a project never marketed to voters. His plan angers Kansas City police. Voters were told in 2002 that the quarter-cent sales tax would earmark $110 million for the Police Department, $13.2 million for Metropolitan Ambulance Services Trust, and $3 million for tornado sirens and emergency preparedness. At the time, police told voters their share of tax proceeds would fund 10 specific capital improvement projects. The jail project was not on the list, Police Chief Jim Corwin said. “This is not what was sold to the public,” Corwin said Monday. “We feel it is inappropriate.” Corwin said the department was crafting a letter to city officials expressing their objections, including that Cauthen’s plan would divert city sales tax money to a county-owned building. Police board members plan to discuss their options at a meeting today. Cauthen suggested in his budget proposal to divert $1.5 million from Police Department projects to renovate the county jail so it can accommodate city prisoners. The City Council voted last week to close the current city jail in order to save $1 million. City officials believe using the money for the jail is proper, spokeswoman Mary Charles said Monday. “It is a public safety sales tax, not just a police sales tax,” she said. “We believe it is a benefit to police, even though it wasn’t on the original list.” Using that logic, Police Maj. David Zimmerman said, city officials could siphon off every remaining dollar that comes in under the sales tax as long as they claimed it benefited public safety. The city has taken money from tax proceeds for other projects, including $300,000 for flood control management, that weren’t on the list that voters used to make their decision at the ballot box, he said. a href="http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/story/1050276.html"target=" _new">Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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