Mayor Mark Funkhouser
City Hall, 29th floor • 414 E. 12th St. • Kansas City, MO 64106 •
Phone: (816) 513-3500 • Fax: (816) 513-3518 • E-mail: mayor@kcmo.org

What's new:

City Manager's Preliminary Budget

Below you will find attached documants regarding the City Manager's Preliminary Budget.

Straight Talk with the Mayor
Mayor Funkhouser has a new TV show in which he answers questions from residents. The show is taped twice a month from his office and airs at 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. daily on Channel 2. You can view episode one and two anytime online.

Education Reform in the Kansas City School District
In March, David Smith, then president of the Kansas City, Missouri, Board of education, appointed a civic task force to develop a strategy to rebuild community confidence in and support of the school district through greater academic achievement and more effective policy leadership.  Mayor Funkhouser served on this task force.  This week, the task force released its final report. The Mayor fully supports this report and has pledged to help push for its recommendations to be followed up on. Read his official statement on the report.

First Ladies of Kansas City
Women are the fabric that holds communities together, and this award is created to honor them. Their work is never-ending and of utmost importance. The person nominated for this resolution should be a woman who has consistently served the needs of others, while frequently going unnoticed herself. This resolution is to honor the women of our community who have given to many, but who have been served by few. Recipients will be invited to City Hall to receive a special resolution in their honor. Nominate a First Lady.

Be Somebody's Hero
There are many unsung heroes in our community. The most important are those that make a difference in a child’s life. There are many children in our community who don’t have much in the way of parenting, so the person being nominated for this resolution should be someone who goes out of their way to make a child feel important. Nominate a Hero

Mayor to host New Tools tour and celebration
As part of an ongoing collaborative effort undertaken by the mayor, fellow members of the City Council and other local leaders and experts from a diverse range of backgrounds to devise “New Tools” for economic development in distressed areas of the city, the mayor hosted the inaugural “Seeing Is Believing” tour and celebration on Saturday, June 21, at the corner of 27th and Prospect. The event began with a guided bus tour that will showcase prospective projects that New Tools can be used for and will highlight an established, successful business. The tour concluded with a celebration party that included food, music and dancing at Morningstar Baptist Church, 2411 E. 27th St.

Mayor Testifies Before U.S. Senate
On June 12, Mayor Funkhouser testified before the Senate's Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs in support of the The Dodd-Hagel National Infrastructure Bank Act of 2007. Read the full text of his testimony.

Sign up for Mayor's Night Hoops
The Mayor's Night Hoops will begin with a tip-off event at Central High School on June 7. Visit the official Mayor's Night Hoops Web site to get some more info or to sign up.

Mayor releases Regional Transit Plan
On Friday, May 23, Mayor Mark Funkhouser mailed copies of a regional transit plan to 50 elected officials. Download that plan.

On Friday, May 30, at a meeting co-hosted by Mayors David Bower of Raytown and Kathleen Rose of Riverside, Mayor Funkhouser will formally present the plan to the mayors and county leaders from Clay, Platte and Jackson counties to discuss a regional transit system plan. The meeting will begin at 9 a.m. at Kansas City Baptist Temple, 5460 Blue Ridge Cut-Off, Raytown, and will adjourn at noon.