Please plan on attending our 6 p.m. public meeting Monday, July 14, in the front building of the South Patrol Police Campus, 9701 Marion Park Dr., to hear from area state legislators about the major successes and failures of the recent regular and special sessions of the Missouri General Assembly and the impact these events will have on our state and on our south Kansas City and Grandview communities.
They also will bring us up to date on the latest developments in the state’s efforts to keep the Chiefs and Royals in Missouri for the foreseeable future.
Confirmed speakers include State Senators Mike Cierpiot & Patty Lewis and State Representatives Anthony Ealy, Jr., Pattie Mansur & Mark A. Sharp.
Our legislators will also explain what important proposed laws and appropriations were recently vetoed by Governor Mike Kehoe, and which of these measures are likely to come up for debate in the September 10 veto session when legislators can override gubernatorial vetoes and approve proposed laws and appropriations with a two-thirds vote in both the Missouri House and Senate.
They will also discuss major issues expected to come up for consideration in the 2026 session of the Missouri General Assembly that will convene on January 7 and take audience questions.
Attendees also will learn more details about the great news from a spokesperson for the Kansas City Police Department shortly after July 4 that no deaths or injuries to persons were reported to KCPD as the result of July 4 celebratory gunfire which was much less in KCMO this year than in recent years.
This significant reduction was due at least in part to enhanced efforts to warn people:
-About how dangerous and sometimes deadly it is to fire guns into the air in heavily populated areas; and
-About the much stronger criminal penalties for recklessly discharging firearms within or into city limits in Missouri since last year’s enactment of Blair’s Law named in memory of 11-year-old Blair Shanahan Lane who died here after being struck by celebratory gunfire while playing in the yard on July 4 years ago.
