PRESS RELEASE:   Kansas City Police have reduced their take-home vehicle fleet to the lowest level in seven years. The annual take-home vehicle audit showed the department reduced its take-home vehicle fleet by 52. (LOOK AT THE MESSAGE BELOW THIS ONE. THEY EVIDENTLY FORGOT THAT THEY WERE GOING TO REDUCE IT BY 60 --OR THEY LIED) A total of 373 vehicles were assigned as take-home in 2009, compared to 425 in 2008. This is the smallest amount of take-home vehicles the department has had since 2002.   The full audit reports are available <http://www.kcmo.org/police/AboutUs/Audit/index.htm>online. For more information about the audits, contact Internal Audit Unit Manager Thomas Gee at 816-889-6051   OLD PRESS RELEASE: The Kansas City Missouri Police Department will revise its take-home-car policy and revoke the take-home status of 60 vehicles in response to an internal audit released at today's Board of Police Commissioners' meeting.   The Department's Internal Audit Unit does an annual review of take-home cars to determine who is using them, how much fuel they used and whether they are being used according to policy. The last audit, completed in August 2008, revealed a 7.3 percent increase in the take-home fleet from 2007 to 2008. It also showed some of those vehicles had fuel usage that was above the Department average. Auditors began to examine the reasons for the increase and found that the self-reporting process for take-home cars is flawed, and not all vehicles being operated as take-home cars were being properly reported.   In response to this audit, Chief James Corwin asked the Internal Audit Unit to physically verify the location of all the department's 1,000-plus vehicles, including bicycles, trailers and specialty vehicles like Tactical Unit tanks. This audit was released at the Board of Police Commissioners' July 9 meeting and is available at www.kcpd.org. Chief Corwin wanted that audit completed before the release of the August 2008 Take-Home Vehicle Audit, which is now available on the department's Web site.   In response to both of the audits, Chief Corwin ordered that 60 of the take-home vehicles have their take-home status revoked. This will save an estimated $178,080 to $179,400 a year. He also ordered the policy regarding take-home vehicles to be revised, a task which is now underway. He further has requested a follow-up audit in February 2010 to ensure the reductions in the take-home fleet and conformity to the Department's policy.   "I'm grateful to our Internal Audit Unit for seeing that a problem existed with take-home vehicles and doggedly working to find out why," Chief Corwin said. "This is an excellent example of our commitments to be transparent and to be good stewards of taxpayers' money. When we have a problem, we let the public know about it, and we fix it."   The full audit report is available take a look http://www.kcpd.org/kcpd2004/1/Annual%20Take%20Home%20Car%2008-02.pdf   Send comments to <mailto:kcpdchiefblog@kcpd.org>kcpdchiefblog@kcpd.org   It would have been nice to have our Chief of Police question the fairness of giving cars to off duty Police rather than finally doing what is right for "economic reasons"

COMBAT TAX ??   ARCHIVES OF COMBAT SALES TAX SIX 1) THEY STILL TAKE TAX INCREMENT FINANCE MONEY OUT OF THE MONEY THEY COLLECT. THEY SAID THAT THEY WOULD NOT DO THAT ANYMORE. The last light rail vote was TIF exempt why are safety taxes not exempt??  2) Let the public see the 990's from the Non Profits that receive the money. Let the public see the audits of those who get the money! REASONS TO 3) Murders are up. Drug murders are up. If there was ever a new plan it might end up differently, but it is always the same. Give us more money and we will ask again.     4) SAME PEOPLE GET THE MONEY and THEY GET THE SAME RESULTS      VOTE NO 5) There is a lack of responsiveness on the part of the Police Department and they receive part of these funds. They still loan official cars to off duty officers working for private businesses. They still allow officers in uniform to give character references for private businesses and individuals. 6) The state has decided that the Police will be funded by the City of K.C. and controled by the State of Missouri. This tax by passes the agreed upon finance and control mechanisms.   Here is place to get the real lowdown on developer morality ! For More Information ----CALL 1-714-871-9756 or 1-714-834-3440 TEA PARTY TIME Were you there? I looked and looked for the right wing crazies, but only found financially conservative, former middle class families. Remember "they" said that the original tea party people were fanatics.     Quit Playing Ball Games with our money   IT IS NOT A LAW IT IS NOT A CONTRACT IT IS NOT RIGHT . There is NO CONTRACT that specifies that $2 Million must be given to the ball teams or the city is in default.   SOMEBODY IS LYING Quit Quit Quit Quit Quit Quit Quit Quit Quit Quit Quit Quit Quit GIVING AWAY $2 MILLION DOLLARS of KANSAS CITY MISSOURI MONEY       "art pharts" "art pharts" "art pharts"   They are at it again!! We were tipped off by a letter which originally appeared on the KCMOHotline.com web site. This letter asked the Kansas City Star to correct a statement which they did not do and futher did not publish this letter. Here it is.     The statement which appeared in the Sunday March 9th editorial in the Kansas City Star on regional funding, stated "That plan was hurt by an arts funding plan that wasn't well understood " assumes incorrectly a limited public understanding. In other words it is a lie  The public understood precisely that the proposal would hand over hundreds of millions of tax dollars to wealthy "arts advocates" who were self appointed to their official positions.  The public understood that Hispanic, African-Americans, new immigrants and leaders from our community centers were not included in the planning and that meant little or NO funding for those constituencies.  The public understood that Missouri law mandates 74+ hours of tax supported art and music education each year for Missouri elementary children and Kansas doesn't.  The public understood that too many groups in Kansas City, have for too long believed that those who vote do not understand. The vote showed that we understood only too well that an arts dynasty was in the making and the public overwhelming said NO.  If we are to achieve regional funding for the arts, precise egalitarian guidelines must be included in the ballot proposal. An overwhelming attempt must be made to balance the inequities that exist across county and state lines and parameters must be set which will preclude the development of an arts aristocracy that will in fact, pick what is art for the metro area. We need arts councils and not-for-profit arts agencies as filters for proposals, but not as the dispensers of public taste or public tax funds. They should function as pass through agencies, with suggestion abilities only.   A Kansas City Metro Regional Arts Proposal needs to: 1. Establish an endowment fund where only the interest is used.   2. Disperse the interest funds in the form of "pass through" grants to not-for-profits who attach their 990's to their pesonal grant requests and a letter of reference for all individual grants they forward to the individual art fund committee.   3. Establish ten designated individual art funds committees, Dance, Exhibitions, Music, Festivals, Folk Arts, Visual Arts, Film, Theater, Ethnic Arts, and Literature each of which would receive 10% of the total funds available. By dividing the funds according to artistic endeavor the diverse citizenry of the Kansas City Metro area will enjoy a diversity of arts programing rather than only the preferences of an elitist group   City Council appointment of 4 persons to each art oversight committee with no pay and only a few meetings would avoid arts administration overhead, the largest area of funding in the last proposal. This system will provide fairness as long as the appointees are changed every couple of years. This system allows for the inclusion of academic art endeavors and popular arts, it allows for individual and group proposals in our community. Each has a place in Kansas City and each should be provided a chance at any Arts funding that takes place with taxpayer money. The public understands and it will require new assurances before passing a regional art proposal.  WHAT ARE THEY PLANNING??   "art pharts" "art pharts" "art pharts"

ART? PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN JACKSON COUNTY SPENT $24,000,000.00 on Art, Music, and Theatre teachers last year.That is saleries not including supplies.   Rev. IKE??

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Read it Now!! How to Spend $3,000,000.00 and LOSE	"(When we attempted to locate economic impact studies for the Chiefs and Royals, that projected job creation from the adoption of the teams; unfortunately we were unable to secure or even determine if formal economic studies were preformed.)" P# 111 Sports, Jobs,& Taxes. by Zimbalist.
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