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Kansas City Northland Republicans want special session on KCPD budget changes
Jeanne Kuang, The Kansas City Star
May 26 JEFFERSON CITY Four Missouri state representatives who represent parts of the Northland asked Gov. Mike Parson Wednesday for a special legislative session to push back on Mayor Quinton Lucas s plans to take some control over part of Kansas City Police Department s budget.
The proposals, approved by a supermajority of City Council members last Thursday hours after Lucas introduced them, take $42.3 million out of KCPD s $239 million budget and place the money in a newly created fund for Community Services and Prevention to underwrite innovative ways of fighting crime. City Hall will negotiate with the state-appointed Board of Police Commissioners over how to spend it. ....

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