Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser met on Friday with some local officials at the Barry Road Bridge over Rush Creek to urge city staff to work faster to get the bridge replaced and open. The bridge was closed Friday, Aug. 15 after Kansas City public works employees determined the bridge was deteriorating faster than initially anticipated. According to Dennis Gagnon, public information officer for the public works department, the deterioration was due to large trucks using the bridge. Gagnon previously said the bridge would remain closed until 2010 when the bridge and road widening project is scheduled to be finished.
The Parkville Board of Aldermen on Tuesday adopted a new ethics ordinance removing some portions and editing other portions of the ordinance. The ordinance was put together by Jeffrey Bay, alderman and head of the policy committee, and presented to the board. Changes to the ordinance include removing some redundant sections and making the ordinance similar to other cities and samples provided by the Missouri Municipal League.
The Park Hill Board of Education heard from several residents on Thursday about a sewer line for Union Chapel Elementary proposed to be built by the school district. During the public comments section of the meeting, five residents spoke against the proposal to lace the sewer line east of Union Chapel Elementary through the valley near Crooked Road.