Standing Committee to Consider Adopting Infrastructure Recommendations

Published on July 25, 2022

Tonight the Unified Government Public Works & Safety Standing Committee will be discussing a resolution to formally advance proposed recommendations and strategies from the Commission Infrastructure Subcommittees to the Full Commission for consideration.

Kansas City, Kansas, is at an infrastructure crossroads. Like many cities across the United States, once robust infrastructure systems are reaching the end of their useful life across multiple interdependent asset categories like streets, bridges, facilities, recreation, and stormwater. Physical infrastructure is the foundation of modern life, and now that this infrastructure has served generations over the past 50 to 100 years, it must be rebuilt or replaced. The cost of performing this work is as monumental as the challenge itself, but with a disciplined, systematic, and strategic commitment, achieving the outcomes residents, businesses, and visitors desire is possible.

To identify these outcomes and the strategies needed to make them possible, the Unified Government’s (UG) Governing Body established three infrastructure subcommittees, each chaired and membered by Commissioners: (1) Streets, Bridges & Streetlights, (2) Parks, Recreation & Facilities, and (3) Stormwater & Wastewater. Between June 24, 2021, and April 3, 2022, the subcommittees met 26 times, and members participated in three opportunities for a city-wide infrastructure tour to see and discuss the challenges Kansas City, Kansas, faces.

Learn more about the state of infrastructure in this video and check out the complete document being considered tonight.