After nearly three decades, should the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, change its consolidated government structure? That will be a key question posed at neighborhood discussions in the coming weeks after the mayors of KCK, Edwardsville and Bonner Springs announced plans to create a task force to hear resident concerns, and solutions, about the UG. While no meetings have been set, current and former officials are divided on the region’s future, especially over the suggestion that KCK and county could break up. Mike Jacobi, who was a leader in the consolidation effort in the 1990s, considered the mayors’ plans an “attack on everything” he and others in that movement did. Since KCK and Wyandotte County’s governments unified in 1997, Jacobi said, the county went from being known for its political corruption to one with attractions like the Kansas Speedway in the Village West area.
Source: KC Star Local News
