Week 41: October 5 to 9, 2026

Ordinance 6123, “JaCo Code Chapter 6 - MBE/WBE Program/Contracting Procedures”

AN ORDINANCE enacting a moratorium on enforcement of Chapter 6 of the Jackson County Code, 1984, relating to minority and women owned business enterprise program and other contracting procedures.

Chapter 6 is the part of the county code on its minority and women owned business enterprise program and contracting procedures. The ordinance's own text: "enforcement of Chapter 6 of the Jackson County Code, 1984 is hereby suspended," and "this moratorium on enforcement of Chapter 6 shall remain in force unless and until a revised chapter is approved by Ordinance." The reasons it gives: to "ensure compliance with federal regulations and guidelines while allowing the County time to review and amend the chapter," and "to prevent potential litigation and allow for a thorough review and revision." It sets no end date and names no deadline for the revised chapter. It does not say which federal regulations or which litigation.

Status: Introduced August 24, 2026. At third perfection since October 1. The county's final record of the October 5 meeting lists no action on it.

Read at jacksonco.legistar.com on Tuesday, October 6, 2026.

Update Oct. 15: moved to fifth perfection Oct. 13.

Ordinance 6077, “Justice with Dignity”

AN ORDINANCE enacting section 6004., of the Jackson County Code, 1984, relating to standards for care and treatment in Jackson County residential facilities with a severability clause.

Sets county standards for how people held in county residential facilities are cared for.

Status: Advanced to sixth perfection October 1. The county's final record of the October 5 meeting lists no action on it.

Read at jacksonco.legistar.com on Tuesday, October 6, 2026.

Update Oct. 22: the Legislature's record lists it as "dropped" Oct. 20. The record does not say why.

Ordinance 6129

AN ORDINANCE appropriating $969,078.00 from the undesignated fund balance of the 2026 Health Fund and awarding a month-to-month contract extension for the furnishing of temporary mental health, medical and dental services to inmates of the Department of Corrections to Advanced Correctional Healthcare of Peoria, IL, at a cost to the County not to exceed $969,078.00.

Another short extension of a temporary contract for jail health care. "Month-to-month" and "temporary" are the words to watch.

Status: Passed October 5, 2026.

Read at jacksonco.legistar.com on Tuesday, October 6, 2026.

Ordinance 6142

AN ORDINANCE enacting subsection 298. Jackson County Code, 1984 relating to campaign contribution limits for all elected Jackson County officials, with an effective date and severability clause.

Caps what elected county officials can take in campaign contributions. The limits themselves are in the text, not the title.

Status: Assigned to committee October 5, 2026. The record does not name the committee.

Read at jacksonco.legistar.com on Tuesday, October 6, 2026.

Update Oct. 22: perfected Oct. 19, per the county's record. It was on the draft agenda for the Legislature's Oct. 26 meeting when read Oct. 22.

Ordinance 6143

AN ORDINANCE repealing subsection 2066.7., of the Jackson County Code, 1984, relating to a senior tax credit, and enacting, in lieu thereof, one new subsection relating to the same subject.

Rewrites the senior property tax credit's application and process.

Status: Assigned to committee October 5, 2026. The record does not name the committee.

Read at jacksonco.legistar.com on Tuesday, October 6, 2026.

Update Oct. 22: perfected Oct. 12 and adopted Oct. 19 on the consent agenda, per the county's record.

Resolution 22323

A RESOLUTION directing the County Executive, the Department of Public Works, and all appropriate County departments and agencies to develop and implement a comprehensive framework governing the siting, construction, expansion, and operation of artificial intelligence and high-capacity data center facilities within Jackson County, Missouri, and establishing conditions necessary to protect public infrastructure, utility systems, environmental resources, public safety, and neighboring communities.

Starts the county's rules on where data centers go. Siting decisions land on somebody's block.

Status: On hold since October 1. The October 5 minutes: the Chief Deputy County Counselor "said the substitute sent to her by Legislator Sean Smith, will be included with the agenda packet next week."

Read at jacksonco.legistar.com on Tuesday, October 6, 2026.

Update Oct. 22: the Legislature's record lists it as "withdrawn" Oct. 19. The record does not say why or whether another measure replaces it.

Resolution 22404, “declaring 1305 Locust & 1315 Locust as surplus property”

A RESOLUTION declaring certain County-owned land as surplus real property and authorizing the Administration to solicit bids for selling one (1) surplus parcel.

Would declare one county parcel surplus and put it out for bid. The resolution's own text names its buildings: 1305 Locust, 1315 Locust and 1300 Cherry Street.

Status: Sent to a second meeting October 1. The county's final record of the October 5 meeting lists no action on it.

Read at jacksonco.legistar.com on Tuesday, October 6, 2026.

Update Oct. 22: the Legislature adopted it Oct. 12 on a roll call vote, per the county's record.

Resolution 22405, “declaring 500 & 502 E. 26th Street as surplus property”

A RESOLUTION declaring certain County-owned land as surplus real property and authorizing the Administration to solicit bids for selling two (2) surplus parcels.

Would declare 500 and 502 E. 26th Street surplus and put them out for bid. Across the two resolutions, three parcels would leave public hands; the Docket will record who buys them.

Status: Sent to a second meeting October 1. The county's final record of the October 5 meeting lists no action on it.

Read at jacksonco.legistar.com on Tuesday, October 6, 2026.

Update Oct. 22: the Legislature's motion to adopt it failed Oct. 12 on a roll call vote, per the county's record; the matter's status reads Defeated. A separate resolution, 22439, carries the posted title "declaring certain County-owned land near 500 East 26th Street and 502 East 26th Street in Kansas City, Missouri as surplus real property." It is on the draft agenda for the Legislature's Oct. 26 meeting, as read Oct. 22. The record does not say how 22439 relates to 22405.

Resolution 22422

A RESOLUTION authorizing the Jackson County Legislature to hold a closed meeting on Monday, October 5, 2026, for the purpose of conducting confidential communications under section 610.021(17) of the Revised Statutes of Missouri (RSMo) and closing all records prepared for discussion at said meeting.

A closed session the same day. The records prepared for it are closed too.

Status: Passed October 5, 2026.

Read at jacksonco.legistar.com on Tuesday, October 6, 2026.

Resolution 260885

Directing the City Manager to identify up to $15,000,000.00 from City funds to allocate to the 63rd & Prospect Development; and directing the City Manager to negotiate a cooperative agreement, funding disbursement agreement, and other related agreements with Southpointe, LLC ...

Directs the City Manager to identify up to $15 million in city funds for the 63rd & Prospect Development. The agreement terms are not on the agenda yet; that is where the Docket reads next.

Status: Held by the committee October 6, due back October 13, per the city clerk's entry.

Read at kansascity.legistar.com on Tuesday, October 6, 2026.

Update Oct. 22: the Finance, Governance and Public Safety Committee recommended "Immediate Adoption as a Committee Substitute" Oct. 20, and the Council's Oct. 22 entry reads "Adopted as Substituted," per the city clerk's entries. The substitute no longer directs the City Manager to identify up to $15,000,000 from City funds. It directs the City Manager to "estimate costs necessary to complete infrastructure," to "identify funding opportunities and tools," and to negotiate a co-development agreement with Southpointe, LLC. The $15,000,000 appears in it only where the developer "represents that the Project requires up to $15,000,000.00." Its other dollar figures, $5,000,000, $4,500,000 and $500,000, are money it recites as already allocated or appropriated. The matter's status field still read "Final Reading, Debate" when read.

Ordinance 260889 (with Ordinance 260888 and Resolution 260890)

Authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds by the Missouri Development Finance Board in one or more series to finance not to exceed $560,000,000.00 of costs of the design, acquisition, construction, furnishing, equipping, and operations of a new stadium, team offices, and supporting infrastructure ...

A Downtown Stadium Tax Increment Financing Plan (260888), revenue bonds capped at $560 million (260889), and the plan's first project area (260890). TIF captures the growth in certain taxes inside a district and spends it on the project. What happens if revenue falls short is written into 260888's Stadium Impact Area Policy; the Docket reads it next.

Status: October 6, per the city clerk's entries: 260888, "Adv and Do Pass as Cmte Sub, Debate"; 260889, "Adv and Do Not Pass as a Cmte Sub, Debate"; 260890, "Hold off Agenda." A committee substitute ("Cmte Sub") is the committee's own rewritten version. 260888 and 260889 go to the full Council, due back October 8.

Read at kansascity.legistar.com on Tuesday, October 6, 2026.

Update Oct. 22: at the Council Oct. 8, 260888 "Passed as Substituted as Amended" and 260889 "Passed as Substituted," per the city clerk's entries. The posted title of 260889 now reads "Committee Substitute" and "not to exceed $537,000,000.00," not the $560,000,000 in the title as read Oct. 6. 260890 shows no entry after October 6.

Corrected Oct. 22. This card quoted 260889's title as "not to exceed $560,000,000.00" and called the bonds "capped at $560 million." That was the title the city had posted when this Docket published on the morning of Oct. 6. The city's record shows the Finance, Governance and Public Safety Committee acted that day on a committee substitute for 260889, and the substitute's text, last modified in the city's system at 1:59 p.m. Oct. 6, carries a title reading "not to exceed $537,000,000.00." Our own update to this card later on Oct. 6 added the committee's actions but did not change the figure. The city's record shows the Council passed 260889 "as Substituted" on Oct. 8.

Ordinance 260065

Directing the City Manager to assign costs incurred by the Board of Police Commissioners beyond the twenty-five (25) percent annual budget threshold in Mo. Rev. Stat. 84.730 to a new fund entitled “KCPD Overage Fund” ...

Puts the police board's costs above the 25 percent threshold named in Mo. Rev. Stat. 84.730 into a fund of their own, the KCPD Overage Fund, in the city's books.

Status: Committee substitute. Held by the committee October 6, due back October 13, per the city clerk's entry.

Read at kansascity.legistar.com on Tuesday, October 6, 2026.

Resolution 260071

Directing the City Manager to review site, design, and acquisition matters for the purpose of designing and constructing a Midtown Justice Campus, a co-location of the Kansas City Police Department Central Patrol Division and the Community Resource Center, and report back to City Council within 30 days.

A 30-day review of putting a police patrol division and the Community Resource Center on one campus.

Status: Held by the committee October 6, due back October 13, per the city clerk's entry.

Read at kansascity.legistar.com on Tuesday, October 6, 2026.

Ordinance 260903

Authorizing the Director of General Services to negotiate and execute an amendment to the lease with Kansas City Blues Juke House, LLC for the property located at 1700 East 18th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64108 for an additional five (5) year term; and authorizing the Director of General Services to waive rents in an amount not to exceed $60,000.00.

Keeps the Blues Juke House in its city-owned building at 18th and Vine for five more years, with up to $60,000 in rent waived.

Status: Held by the committee October 6, due back October 13, per the city clerk's entry.

Read at kansascity.legistar.com on Tuesday, October 6, 2026.

Ordinance 260899 (with 260898)

Accepting and approving the recommendation of the Tax Increment Financing Commission of Kansas City, Missouri, as to the termination of the Prospect North Tax Increment Financing Plan ...

Would close two incentive districts, 19th Terrace & Central (260898) and Prospect North (260899), and declare their leftover funds surplus; where that money goes is in the text.

Status: Held by the committee October 6, due back October 13, per the city clerk's entry.

Read at kansascity.legistar.com on Tuesday, October 6, 2026.

Ordinance 260872

Amending Chapter 10, Code of Ordinances, “Alcoholic Beverages,” by repealing and replacing Sections 10-106 and 10-214, for the purpose of removing and clarifying certain eligibility and waiver provisions for 3:00 a.m. closing permits.

Rewrites eligibility and waiver rules for 3:00 a.m. liquor closing permits.

Status: Before the committee October 6. No action on it was posted when read at 5:18 p.m. that day.

Read at kansascity.legistar.com on Tuesday, October 6, 2026.

Update Oct. 22: passed by the Council Oct. 8, per the city clerk's entry.

Ordinance 260902

Appropriating $10,000.00 ... to support JuneteenthKC’s financial empowerment and wealth activity; directing the City Manager to propose up to $75,000.00 in submitted budgets for FY27-28 as sustained funding for JuneteenthKC ...

$10,000 now and a line in next year's budget for JuneteenthKC. The fund the $10,000 comes from is a blank in the posted title.

Status: Held by the committee October 6, due back October 20, per the city clerk's entry.

Read at kansascity.legistar.com on Tuesday, October 6, 2026.

Update Oct. 22: the committee's Oct. 20 entry reads "Hold off Agenda," with no due-back date, and the matter's status reads Held, per the city clerk's record.

Ordinance 260498

Calling an election on August 4, 2026, for the purpose of submitting to the voters of Kansas City a question authorizing City to establish semiannual vacant property registration fees not to exceed $200.00 for chronically vacant nuisance property, $1,000.00 for vacant commercial property and $200.00 for vacant unimproved property ...

Asks voters to approve vacant property registration fees. The election date in the posted title, August 4, 2026, has passed; the Docket will read the text for the corrected date.

Status: Held by the committee October 6, due back October 20, per the city clerk's entry.

Read at kansascity.legistar.com on Tuesday, October 6, 2026.

Resolution No. 5165 (item 6)

Approving the execution and delivery of a Redevelopment Agreement related to an economic development project at the southeast corner of 82nd Street and Metcalf in Overland Park (8201 Metcalf TIF Project).

A redevelopment agreement with 29SC Development Company, LLC, for a project at 82nd and Metcalf. The agenda names it the "8201 Metcalf TIF Project." TIF is tax increment financing, a way of paying for a project with the new tax revenue it produces. The agenda does not say which taxes or how much.

Status: On the October 5 agenda. The city had posted the agenda and video, but no minutes or action summary, when read October 6.

Read at opkansas.civicweb.net on Tuesday, October 6, 2026.

Rezoning REZ2026-00008 (item 15)

8500 Grandview Lane. Rezoning is requested from R-1, Single-Family Residential District, to RP-3, Planned Garden Apartment District, to allow the conversion of a building into a multi-unit home. Application made by Friends of Johnson County Developmental Supports.

Lets a disability-services nonprofit turn a house into a multi-unit home. The Planning Commission approved it 11 to 0.

Status: On the October 5 agenda. The city had posted the agenda and video, but no minutes or action summary, when read October 6.

Read at opkansas.civicweb.net on Tuesday, October 6, 2026.

Item 12, Action Agenda

Conduct a public hearing and consider approval of the proposed 2027 Public Housing Authority (PHA) Annual Plan for submission to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

The county's housing authority sets its year of vouchers, waiting lists and policies, and HUD requires a public hearing first. This is the one item on the week's four agendas that opens a formal public hearing on housing. It is item 12 of a meeting that opens at 9:30 a.m.; the agenda sets no time for the item itself.

Status: Hearing Thursday, October 8.

Read at boccmeetings.jocogov.org on Tuesday, October 6, 2026.