Supporters of a 40-year sales tax to help pay for a new Royals ballpark and renovations to Arrowhead Stadium took the first steps this week toward financing a ballot campaign by forming a campaign committee as required by the state of Missouri.
A written statement organizing The Committee to Keep the Chiefs and Royals in Jackson County was filed electronically Monday afternoon with the Missouri Ethics Commission.
The committee’s address is Kauffman Stadium. Sarah Tourville, the Royals’s executive vice president and chief commercial and community impact officer , was listed as co-chair. And the team’s chief financial officer, Whitney Beaver, was listed as campaign treasurer.
No other officers’ names are on the form, although the statement could be amended.
Campaign committees are created, as required by state law, to be the conduits for accepting donations and paying the bill in political campaigns. They have to create a separate bank account for those dollars to pass through. But no financial information is available yet for this committee. Feb. 22 is the deadline for its first financial report.