Welcome to the joint committee of the council standing committees.

It's a mouth move for committee of the whole neal and I will be co-chairing the whole city councils on this joint committee.

So

you know when he says we're gonna be co-chairing, I'm the assistant.

Look out.

All right.

Um I don't think we need to even do introductions.

There is one resolution that looks at what's going on with the public safety sales tax and how you program money, and then we'll probably just do QA after that.

So staff or city manager, sorry.

Yeah, thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

I I do apologize to members of the council.

I I had a previously scheduled commitment I have to leave for.

Um, but I think uh today's conversation continues the you know the conversation that's been going on for um several months now as it relates what are the priorities for public safety.

So uh assistant uh director Choi will walk through um you know what is what are our projections for or what we think uh public safety uh sales tax it will be uh what are the expenditures that we expect uh to have out of that uh funding source, understanding that historically uh the public safety sales tax was used for uh operating expenses and subpersonal expenses, and now knowing that we are trying to build uh a detentions uh and rehabilitation department that goes with to be funded out of that same funding source.

Also, we're gonna provide again a brief overview of the facilities that people need to that people want to see constructed and funded out of public safety sales tax.

And again, understanding that um from our perspective, all of these things are a need.

Uh there is a need to upgrade uh central patrol, and I'm gonna talk about these in no order of priority personal, so don't take don't read anything into this.

Uh so there is a need for uh you know, central patrol division, there's a need for a permanent jail facility, there is a need for uh a rehabilitation center, a community resource center.

All of those things are part of the overall system for public safety um and rehabilitation for for the city.

And lastly, I think one of the things that we're gonna talk about briefly is a proposal for how we maybe can uh reduce the cost and come up with an alternative to build a um uh a brand new uh uh permanent facility and really just focus on how we convert our facility at Front Street into uh and how we supplement it to so it can be more functional.

So I will let the staff uh run with all the details, but I just want to have a chance to um to put that on the record for myself.

Thank you.

Thank you, City Manager.

Howard, why don't you go ahead and read 26071 260886?

26071 resolution directing the city manager to review site design and acquisition matters for the purpose of the designing a and constructing a midtown justice campus, a co-location of the Kansas City Police Police Department, Central Patrol Division, and the Community Resource Center, and report back to the City Council in 30 days.

260886 resolution establishing the city council funding priorities for the expenditure of public safety sales tax funds.

Good morning, honorable mayor and members of joint committee for city council.

My name is William Choi, Deputy Director of Finance, and I'll let the folks to my right introduce themselves.

Good morning.

Uh Roxan Reyes, City Architect, the General of Services.

Diana Knapp, Director of Department of Community Safety.

Today we're here to talk about resolution number 260886, which establishes the following order of priorities for the future allocation of the public safety sales tax.

As outlined in the resolution, the first priority would be completion of a permanent tension and rehabilitation program.

Second will be development, completion, and operation of community resource center and a new or rehabilitated central patrol division.

And third would be ongoing acquisition, upgrade, maintenance of essential public safety infrastructure and equipment not otherwise funded with general revenue sources.

This resolution also directs city manager to line all future budget proposals, spending plans, and capital improvement schedules with the priorities established in this resolution.

Subright Council, uh kind of a quick background and history of public safety sales tax.

It's a one-quarter cent capital improvement sales tax, and the state statute actually off allows us to have maximum authorization of one half percent.

So there's still another quarter percent uh yet to be unlocked.

Most recently, the public safety sales tax was renewed um on April 8th, 2025 for one quarter cent and for a 20-year term.

Uh prior iterations of this was first initially passed back in 2002 for one quarter cent and then followed and then renewed in 2010, and most recently in 2025.

Uh, here it does talk about the uses for it as far as police emergency medical services.

However, I thought what I'd do is outline some of the things that we've spent public safety sales tax on since the last renewal back in 2010, which includes public safety radio dispatch system, construction or renovation of police headquarters, East Patrol and the Crime Lab, and North Patrol Station.

It also includes various ADA improvements and also in vehicle cameras as well, just to name a couple.

This current tax generates approximately $25 million annually.

So in our fiscal year 27 adopted budget, these are a list of some of the ongoing costs that are continuing to net against the off-scale the revenue in the fund.

So here we have Department of Community Safety, KCPD body cameras, a list of other, which includes emergency management, KCPD IT and facilities, and also existing debt service.

I do want to point you in the direction of a one pager that we provided that kind of lists some additional details in regards to what the actual what those ongoing expenditures are.

I think a fair critique of the finance department is that perhaps in the past we haven't provided the level of detail that council has been seeking.

And so here the one pager talks about that estimated revenues and a little more detail about those total expenditures that total to about 17.5 million.

So here you'll see a little more detail in regards to you know what department they're coming from, what the category is, and also at the bottom does include those total one-time transfers as well.

What those one-time transfers are back whenever the public safety sales tax was going to be renewed, there were some additional expenditures that were incurred and paid out of the general fund with the full intent to reimburse the general fund once the public safety sales tax uh were renewed.

So some of those include the KCPD overtime cost of two million, um construction of the modular jail facility, the permanent detention facility design, and also police foundation for $500,000 as well.

So that's it included in your packet on your desk.

So what brings us here today is there are a list of potential projects uh that are being contemplated by by this body.

Uh the projects include a permanent detention facility, a community resource center, a central patrol, possible relocation of the existing toll.

On here, the total estimated amount for all these projects are approximately 402.6 million dollars, and the estimated annual debt service is approximately 34.2 million, which as you can see we have a bit of a math problem just because the sales tax only generates about 25 million dollars.

In addition to that, I do want to talk about estimated future year operational needs as well.

So these are operational needs that have not been considered or included on that initial one pager I provided.