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UG raises Mill Levy & property tax rate, closes Parks & Public Facilities, cuts Public Programs & Guaranteed Services Provided with/by Annexation. The Joke is on the Voters who supported Reardon, Hays, Walker, Worner, Grable & Jurcyk. City Commissioners Pettey, Mendez, Miller, Holland, Mitchell, Kane, Cooley. BPU Board Pettey, Eidson, Alvey, Milan, Colombel and Gonzales.

The Above team of Corruption & Greed are bankrupting this City.

Mayor Joe Reardon moved into Dennis Hays' neighborhood and could not say no to his neighbor. Hays and his wife were only a few who came out on top during the budget process. Everyone else got either a decrease in benefits or a new even higher tax bill. The mayor moved out of the free tax house that was given him from the CHWC board that he served on so now he abandoned the urban core and moved in as Hays neighbor.

Wyandotte County’s Blind mice Board of Commissioners on Thursday approved the 2011 budget, which includes a 4.5 percent property tax rate increase and deep cuts to several programs. The stupid commissioners are too busy wasting tax dollars and eating banana cream pie to notice. What a joke. See what KCK Mill Levy is before new hike?

The approval came after weeks of public discussion and, at times, anger from some commissioners who feared how the county’s poorest residents would fare from more taxes, higher utility bills and fewer guaranteed city services to depend on.

As Commissioner Bill Miller stuffed his face with BBQ and french fries, he supported cutting the meals on wheels programs. The cuts affect others too, county extension, the local mental health agency, transit routes, drug and alcohol programs and services for those with developmental disabilities. Hurting seniors was Mayor Reardon's idea and Dennis Hays said, great, my grandparents are dead and my mom and dad were never dumb enough to move to Wyandotte County.

Nearly every department budget will experience a 20 percent cut in funding, except for Hays and his wife who got very generous increases. Though some programs were spared, services will still be diminished given that the Unified Government cut those programs by 10 percent last year.

The Public was outraged and many booed the decision. “All I see are houses being torn down, and I don’t see any new development,” said Royal Scott, director of the Northeast Economic Development Organization. “It’s almost genocide to tear down houses in a community with no development.”

Several residents thanked officials for holding taxes down despite the economy.

As deep as the cuts were, several commissioners acknowledged that next year could be far worse unless the government makes structural changes in how it operates. Like starting with firing Dennis Hays and 50% cuts to all administrative salaries. The government has already called special meetings to discuss changes.

Unified Government staff has proposed several cost-cutting projects to be studied in the coming months. They include privatizing some areas of government, selling more assets and merging some business functions between the Unified Government and Board of Public Utilities. But they will never cancel the free lunches to themselves or paying themselves three times their worth on the public market.

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