Floor Substitute
October 12, 2004
IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
Title
A RESOLUTION authorizing an Addendum to Lease Agreements between the Jackson County Sports Complex Authority and the Kansas City Royals Baseball Corporation and the Kansas City Chiefs Football Club, Inc., revising Article VII Section 7.06 relating to the Jackson County Preference, which will extend priority seating privileges to the residents of those counties that are members of the Bistate Metropolitan District and approve the Bistate II question.
Intro
RESOLUTION # 15189, October 12, 2004
INTRODUCED BY Scott Burnett, Dennis Waits, Dan Tarwater, Fred Arbanas,
Bob Spence, Rhonda L. Shoemaker, Robert A. Stringfield,
and Henry C. Rizzo, County Legislators
Body
WHEREAS, by Resolution 8137, dated January 19, 1990, the Legislature did approve the current leases between the Jackson County Sports Complex Authority and the Kansas City Chiefs Football Club, Inc., and Kansas City Royals Baseball Corporation for the operation of Arrowhead and Kauffman Stadiums at the County's Harry S Truman Sports Complex which will expire in the year 2015; and,
WHEREAS, Article VII Section 7.06 of said leases gives priority seating privileges to Jackson County residents for professional baseball and football games; and,
WHEREAS, the Kansas and Missouri Metropolitan Culture District Compact (the "Bistate Compact"), codified at K.S.A. 12-2536 et seq. and sections 70.500 et seq., RSMo, and approved by the United States Congress, authorized the creation of the Kansas and Missouri metropolitan culture district ("Bistate Metropolitan District") as a political subdivision of the two states; and,
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Bistate Compact and based upon the approval of participation in the Bistate Metropolitan District by the voters of Jackson County, Missouri, Johnson County, Kansas, Wyandotte County, Kansas, Platte County, Missouri a...
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