AGP Executive Report
Last update: 4 hours agoCounty Finances: Cooper County commissioners are challenging Missouri Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick’s “poor” rating, saying spending on emergency-management facilities and communications was planned. The audit faulted the county’s capital-project planning and warned its general fund is shrinking. Public Safety: Jackson County voters will decide Nov. 3 whether to renew the quarter-cent COMBAT sales tax, which raises about $30 million to $35 million a year for law enforcement, addiction treatment and crime prevention. Kansas City Development: The City Council approved rezoning, tax-increment financing and bond measures for the Royals’ proposed downtown stadium, clearing the city’s remaining approvals for its $600 million commitment. November Ballot: Missouri’s congressional map fight is heading to voters as campaigns and party leaders make their cases ahead of the election. Higher Education: Lincoln University students and alumni sued Missouri, alleging decades of unequal state funding for the historically Black land-grant university.
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