KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Royals and the Kansas City Public School District (KCPS) have agreed that the district will not lose any property tax revenue that it’s been receiving from the buildings in the footprint of a new ballpark downtown.
In a news release Thursday, KCPS said that according to Jackson County records, those building owners paid $1.4 million in property taxes in 2023. Of that amount, KCPS says it collected $850,000 of that.
Despite that property tax revenue agreement, KCPS says it’s disappointed in other agreements it wasn’t able to reach.
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“I don’t envy the Kansas City Public School District right now, and not just the public school district, the library, the mental health fund, all these taxing jurisdictions that will be harmed,” Show-Me Institute Senior Fellow Patrick Tuohey said in an interview with FOX4 Thursday.
KCPS leaders would not talk on camera. Tuohey has been a vocal opponent of the 3/8 cent sales tax Jackson County residents will be voting on April 2nd . Tuohey, who lives in the city and the county, has already voted no.