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The Kansas City Missouri Police Department will revise its take-home-car policy and revoke the take-home status of 60 vehicles in response to an internal audit released at today's Board of Police Commissioners' meeting.
The Department's Internal Audit Unit does an annual review of take-home cars to determine who is using them, how much fuel they used and whether they are being used according to policy. The last audit, completed in August 2008, revealed a 7.3 percent increase in the take-home fleet from 2007 to 2008. It also showed some of those vehicles had fuel usage that was above the Department average. Auditors began to examine the reasons for the increase and found that the self-reporting process for take-home cars is flawed, and not all vehicles being operated as take-home cars were being properly reported.
In response to this audit, Chief James Corwin asked the Internal Audit Unit to physically verify the location of all the department's 1,000-plus vehicles, including bicycles, trailers and specialty vehicles like Tactical Unit tanks. This audit was released at the Board of Police Commissioners' July 9 meeting and is available at www.kcpd.org. Chief Corwin wanted that audit completed before the release of the August 2008 Take-Home Vehicle Audit, which is now available on the department's Web site.
In response to both of the audits, Chief Corwin ordered that 60 of the take-home vehicles have their take-home status revoked. This will save an estimated $178,080 to $179,400 a year. He also ordered the policy regarding take-home vehicles to be revised, a task which is now underway. He further has requested a follow-up audit in February 2010 to ensure the reductions in the take-home fleet and conformity to the Department's policy.
"I'm grateful to our Internal Audit Unit for seeing that a problem existed with take-home vehicles and doggedly working to find out why," Chief Corwin said. "This is an excellent example of our commitments to be transparent and to be good stewards of taxpayers' money. When we have a problem, we let the public know about it, and we fix it."
The full audit report is available take a look http://www.kcpd.org/kcpd2004/1/Annual%20Take%20Home%20Car%2008-02.pdf
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Ode to a Fallen Comrade Those who
truly knew him honor Craig Davis. His spirit will
continue to inspire us long after his passing. He
stood tall when most sat idly by. He chose action
when most chose to merely observe. His penchant for
what was right set him apart from most men. He
boldly championed any issue that was right for most
and rejected those that benefited only the special
few. His way was always forward and always guided
by a fundamental set of principles that were in
short supply among our elected leaders. There was
never any doubt in his mind about what was right
and never any reluctance to fight for it. When the
facts were known and the issue defined he was
always first to say, "I'm ready to go, what can I
do to help." He was an essential part of a group of
citizen activists who never took a vote; just
talked until they reached a consensus made better
by his ideas. Craig was a
threat to an arrogant power structure that governs
by deceit and guile and whose decisions seem always
guided by what's in it for them. He was a threat
simply because he wanted nothing for himself and
everything for the people. History tells us that
people like Craig have always been a threat to
bigots and tyrants precisely because they want
nothing for themselves. He was
the living embodiment of an old idea that says, "I
shall walk this way but once. Any good thing,
therefore, that I can do, let me do it now. Let me
not delay or defer it for I shall not pass this way
again." He did not delay or defer and those of us
who were privileged to know him are all the better
for it. Wef July 06,
2009
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HELLO ! ! SOUTH KANSAS
CITY LETS START CHARGING PEOPLE
FOR TRASH Former Mayo Kay Waldo Barnes How are you doing?
December 10,
2008 The
Source <http://thesource.typepad.com/thesource/2008/12/barnes-wants-gsa-post.html>Barnes
Wants GSA Post "The Source has
learned that former Kansas City Mayor and failed
congressional candidate Kay Barnes is seeking a
plum job in the Obama administration. Since Barnes
is unwilling to move to Washington D.C., that job
would be in a federal office in Kansas City. This
request brought laughter to the room at a Missouri
Democrat Delegation meeting in Washington, D.C.
yesterday. Barnes
specifically requested a post, as Regional
Administrator, in the Heartland Region of GSA. GSA
has offices in both the Bannister Complex and the
downtown Richard Bollinger Federal Building. GSA's
mission is to manage the guts of government. It is
an "attention to detail" agency. If any agency is
wrong for Kay Barnes, this is it. Barnes has
clearly shown that her personal vision blinds her
from the impact on running an effective government
operation. Kansas City is now facing the scary
results of Barnes' mismanagement and poor
judgment. The Obama
administration should also be wary of previous
Barnes administration missteps federal dollars. For
instance, Barnes' cronies forgot to file paperwork
to get federal funding for the Sprint Arena. And in
2003, Barnes' then newly hired henchman, Steve
Glorioso, was a direct player in a mortgage loan
scheme that eventually toppled the city's HUD funds
contractor. Barnes' record in this regard is
clearly tainted. The Source figured
we would hear form the former Mayor again. But we
assumed it would be as she was appointed to a
meaningless board or civic group. The Obama
administration giving Barnes a position leading any
government office is just a bad
idea."
LIGHT RAIL KILLED DEAD Try calling it a REGIONAL PLAN add bus shelters for North of the river and commuter rail for south Kansas City and 40 miles of LIGHT RAIL. PUT RUS JOHNSON IN CHARGE he is a friend of the people and always helpful with information and truth
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SOME SIGNS OF THE TIMES The Following Domain Names are For Sale. NoOnQuestion1.com NoOn Question2.com KCvoter.com NoIcantAffordit.com WereGettingScrewd.com NoNewArena.com KCArena.com MetroIssues.com |
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OFF DUTY DOG PATROL Car is running to keep the dog cool while the officer is making a little extra money as a security guard! |
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Guarding the blood Bank on Broadway. So I guess there isn't any crime on Broadway right?
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Do Not Buy The Kansas City
Star Tell every body you know and
every Kansas City Star Advertiser that you do not
support a paper that will not correct their
mistakes and misstatements. .MARK
ESPING IS NOT HAPPY WITH THE KANSAS CITY
STAR......... and the
way they manage information and manipulate the
citizen imput process. The Kansas City Star has put me
off in a very poor manner. They published an
editorial statement that was totally incorrect even
when compared with their own previous reporting. I
asked to have that statement corrected with an "As
I See It" column. I submitted 496 words. The
requirement is under 500 words. I submitted the
following and was called and asked for a photo
which was sent, they didn't like that photo so I
sent another one. It seems that an egalatarian plan
of dispensing Art funds is against the common
conclusion of what the Star wants to see develop.
In a conversation last week I was told that too
much time had passed and so it would most probably
not be printed.
submitted to the Kansas City
Star for inclusion as an "As I See It" column by
Mark Esping on March 10 2008.
The public understood
precisely that the proposal would hand over
hundreds of millions of tax dollars to wealthy
"arts advocates" who were self appointed to their
official positions. The public understood that
Hispanic, African-Americans, new immigrants and
leaders from our community centers were not
included in the planning and that meant little or
NO funding for those constituencies. The public understood that
Missouri law mandates 74+ hours of tax supported
art and music education each year for Missouri
elementary children and Kansas doesn't. The public understood that
too many groups in Kansas City, have for too long
believed that those who vote do not understand. The
vote showed that we understood only too well that
an arts dynasty was in the making and the public
overwhelming said NO. If we are to achieve
regional funding for the arts, precise egalitarian
guidelines must be included in the ballot proposal.
An overwhelming attempt must be made to balance the
inequities that exist across county and state lines
and parameters must be set which will preclude the
development of an arts aristocracy that will in
fact, pick what is art for the metro
area. We need arts councils and
not-for-profit arts agencies as filters for
proposals, but not as the dispensers of public
taste or public tax funds. They should function as
pass through agencies, with suggestion abilities
only. A Kansas City Metro Regional
Arts Proposal needs to: 1. Establish an endowment fund
where only the interest is used. 2. Disperse the interest funds
in the form of "pass through" grants to
not-for-profits who attach their 990's to their
pesonal grant requests and a letter of reference
for all individual grants they forward to the
individual art fund committee. 3. Establish ten designated
individual art funds committees, Dance,
Exhibitions, Music, Festivals, Folk Arts, Visual
Arts, Film, Theater, Ethnic Arts, and Literature
each of which would receive 10% of the total funds
available. By dividing the funds according to
artistic endeavor the diverse citizenry of the
Kansas City Metro area will enjoy a diversity of
arts programing rather than only the preferences of
an elitist group City Council appointment of 4
persons to each art oversight committee with no
pay and only a few meetings would avoid arts
administration overhead, the largest area of
funding in the last proposal. This system will provide
fairness as long as the appointees are changed
every couple of years. This system allows for the
inclusion of academic art endeavors and popular
arts, it allows for individual and group proposals
in our community. Each has a place in Kansas City
and each should be provided a chance at any Arts
funding that takes place with taxpayer money. The
public understands and it will require new
assurances before passing a regional art
proposal. 1) Billboards--
Non property tax paying billboards, no yearly
inspections or safety fees, no excise tax
2) Raise Impact
Fees--What Impact does each new development project
have on the enviroment? 3) Merge the
Kansas City Election Board with the Jackson County
Election Board-- 4) Transfer the
Stadium Welfare, to the Arts Hogs --time to pass
the 2 Million around. 5) Put
Cordish on a short leash - Quit accepting their
excuses and whinning 6) Egalatarian
dispersal of any ART & Cultural Tax Racially
and Culturally 7)Tax Increment
Financing -New taxes must be TIF EXEMPT
---especially Light Rail. 8) Raise the
water and sewage treatment rates to wholesale and
commercial accounts. 9)Institute a
national assessor system like Iowa. 10) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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