RESOLUTION NO. 021423

Establishing the City's priorities for proposed legislation that the City encourages the General Assembly to adopt during the 2003 Missouri Legislative Session.

WHEREAS, the Missouri General Assembly will convene January 8, 2003, and the City, during the process of establishing its legislative priorities, seeks to propose legislation for adoption during the 2003 Session; NOW, THEREFORE,

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

That the City Council of Kansas City hereby adopts the following positions on legislation that it will seek to propose as and for its legislative priorities for the 2003 Missouri Legislative Session:

1. Support the Missouri Downtown Economic Stimulus Act, and

2. Revise the distressed community designation to allow more equal access to funds for redevelopment within Kansas City, and

3. Support the New Jobs Training Program, and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City will continue to seek state funding for major public capital improvement projects and opportunities to maximize state funding of other important City projects and programs, and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this Resolution be spread upon the Minutes of the Council in testimony thereof, and that copies hereof be distributed to the elected members of the Missouri General Assembly from the Greater Kansas City Metropolitan Area as evidence of the Citys position on these important matters.

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