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Public interviews for the next city manager start tomorrow (Monday): https://www.kcmo.gov/city-hall/city-off ... candidates

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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

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

Kindergarten teacher, LOL.

A necessary skill set for a City Manager.

Working for McKinsey isn't exactly something to brag about.

TheLastGentleman wrote: ↑Wed Oct 28, 2020 8:12 am Working for McKinsey isn't exactly something to brag about.

It is tho

He sounds like a typical East Coast new urbanist to me. Interesting to see what he does.

normalthings wrote: ↑Wed Oct 28, 2020 10:23 am

TheLastGentleman wrote: ↑Wed Oct 28, 2020 8:12 am Working for McKinsey isn't exactly something to brag about.

It is tho

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.....normal

TheLastGentleman wrote: ↑Wed Oct 28, 2020 12:09 pm

normalthings wrote: ↑Wed Oct 28, 2020 10:23 am

TheLastGentleman wrote: ↑Wed Oct 28, 2020 8:12 am Working for McKinsey isn't exactly something to brag about.

It is tho

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.....normal

Worth noting that KC has some ugly and likely unpopular decisions to make concerning budget shortfalls and covid.

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.

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.

grovester wrote: ↑Wed Oct 28, 2020 7:14 am Kindergarten teacher, LOL.

A necessary skill set for a City Manager.

And volunteer fireman. This guy really has a hand in everything.

Quinton Lucas announces run for re-election as Kansas City mayor in 2023

https://fox4kc.com/your-local-election- ... r-in-2023/

We'll see if this stands if Cleaver decides to retire.