Next Mayor 2019
- DaveKCMO
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Re: Next Mayor 2019
Public interviews for the next city manager start tomorrow (Monday): https://www.kcmo.gov/city-hall/city-off ... candidates
You can also take this priorities survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CMPrioritiesKCMO
You can also take this priorities survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CMPrioritiesKCMO
- normalthings
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Re: Next Mayor 2019
Brian Platt has been recommended as the new City Manager by the Mayor. Before coming to Kansas City, Brian worked as a Kindergarten teacher, management consultant at McKinsey, and more recently as the Chief-Innovation Officer and City Manager of Jersey City NJ.
New Jersey City Info:
NJ City is across the Hudson from lower Manhattan. Its industrial waterfront has been redeveloped aggressively over the past 1 -2 decades into " Wall Street West." This includes a 4,000 person back office for Goldman Sachs (whose head of IB is a KC native).
Notable Businesses & HQS: Goldman Sachs, EPIC Software, Forbes, GOYA Foods,
Size: 250,000 residents
Location: Jersey City is located next to Lower Manhattan and is home to many skyscrapers
Transit: Jersey City has commuter rail, light rail, PATH to WTC, buses, etc
New Jersey City Info:
NJ City is across the Hudson from lower Manhattan. Its industrial waterfront has been redeveloped aggressively over the past 1 -2 decades into " Wall Street West." This includes a 4,000 person back office for Goldman Sachs (whose head of IB is a KC native).
Notable Businesses & HQS: Goldman Sachs, EPIC Software, Forbes, GOYA Foods,
Size: 250,000 residents
Location: Jersey City is located next to Lower Manhattan and is home to many skyscrapers
Transit: Jersey City has commuter rail, light rail, PATH to WTC, buses, etc
- FangKC
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Re: Next Mayor 2019
Jersey City has undergone an amazing amount of development, and has some really nice older neighborhoods as well.
This is an older residential block in Jersey City.
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7191249 ... 8192?hl=en
Another.
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7277148 ... 8192?hl=en
Downtown waterfront development.
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7217401 ... 8192?hl=en
This is an older residential block in Jersey City.
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7191249 ... 8192?hl=en
Another.
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7277148 ... 8192?hl=en
Downtown waterfront development.
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7217401 ... 8192?hl=en
- grovester
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Kindergarten teacher, LOL.
A necessary skill set for a City Manager.
A necessary skill set for a City Manager.
- TheLastGentleman
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Working for McKinsey isn't exactly something to brag about.
- normalthings
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It is thoTheLastGentleman wrote: ↑Wed Oct 28, 2020 8:12 am Working for McKinsey isn't exactly something to brag about.
- beautyfromashes
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He sounds like a typical East Coast new urbanist to me. Interesting to see what he does.
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It's had its hands in some pretty dark places and a lot of bad press. Working with dictators, disturbing work with ICE, at the center of the Enron scandal, ect. Not saying our new guy was involved in any of that or anywhere close to it, but it's worth notining that the company isn't exactly.....normalnormalthings wrote: ↑Wed Oct 28, 2020 10:23 amIt is thoTheLastGentleman wrote: ↑Wed Oct 28, 2020 8:12 am Working for McKinsey isn't exactly something to brag about.
- grovester
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Worth noting that KC has some ugly and likely unpopular decisions to make concerning budget shortfalls and covid.TheLastGentleman wrote: ↑Wed Oct 28, 2020 12:09 pmIt's had its hands in some pretty dark places and a lot of bad press. Working with dictators, disturbing work with ICE, at the center of the Enron scandal, ect. Not saying our new guy was involved in any of that or anywhere close to it, but it's worth notining that the company isn't exactly.....normalnormalthings wrote: ↑Wed Oct 28, 2020 10:23 amIt is thoTheLastGentleman wrote: ↑Wed Oct 28, 2020 8:12 am Working for McKinsey isn't exactly something to brag about.
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Re: Next Mayor 2019
I forget the numbers, but if the city cancels doing road widening/expansion projects for several that would go a long way to bridging the gap.
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https://www.federalreserve.gov/newseven ... 00427a.htm
The city should borrow from the Federal Reserve and assume/hope/push for some of this is forgiven in the future.
The city should borrow from the Federal Reserve and assume/hope/push for some of this is forgiven in the future.
- normalthings
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- FangKC
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Re: Next Mayor 2023
Quinton Lucas announces run for re-election as Kansas City mayor in 2023
https://fox4kc.com/your-local-election- ... r-in-2023/
https://fox4kc.com/your-local-election- ... r-in-2023/
- AlkaliAxel
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Re: Next Mayor 2019
We'll see if this stands if Cleaver decides to retire.