Some candidates included homelessness along with trash and blight as evidence that the city needs some leadership change to clean up its image. Some agreed that there s no easy solution and a collective community effort is the best approach.
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By Mike Genet mike.genet@examiner.net
The Examiner
Come June, Independence Mayor Eileen Weir says, she plans to fly the rainbow-colored pride flag outside her office window at City Hall for LGBTQ Pride Month, just as she has the past couple years.
Weir asked the City Council this week to support flying the flag in front of City Hall in June, but the council voted 6-1 against that.
Right now, the flags of the city, Missouri and the United States, along with the National League of Families POW/MIA flag, are the only four allowed at City Hall and other municipal facilities. Any additional flag requires council approval.
By Mike Genet mike.genet@examiner.net
The city of Independence recently contracted for full-scale designs for a pair of long-conceived projects that previously never really got past the stage of grand plans and studies.
One is Truman Connected, a pedestrian and bike path meant to go from the Truman Library & Museum eventually out to the stadiums of the Truman Sports Complex. The second is Square Streetscapes, which would include a portion of the Truman Connected path.
Last month, the City Council approved two contracts with the Kansas City engineering firm WSP USA for design services on the two projects for a combined $524,600. Most of the cost is covered by street sales tax funds, with federal grant money covering the balance in the Truman Connected project.
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