Leawood City Council members on Monday rebuffed a last-ditch request by a former councilmember to allow fundraising to save the 73-year-old former city hall building.
Former councilmember Debra Filla presented the city council with a request to set up a working committee of city staff, residents, the Leawood Foundation, city council and commission members that would seek pledges to raise $1 million in the next year and a half toward repairs and remediation needed to keep the building.
On Monday, she brought along a letter of support from the head of the Kauffman Family Foundation…