Thursday, August 30, 2007

Kansas City's Dog Days Of "Open" Government

A group of people are chez-upset over the way they were treated at a Parks Board meeting the other night.

You can read all about one person's description of that meeting at Mark's The Kansas City Post titled "An open letter regarding the proposed Waldo Dog Park."

A group of people wanted a section of a southwest K.C. park- Sunnyside- to be set aside for a dog park. One such park exists now- inside Penn Valley Park near downtown.

From all accounts- the park board refused to hear any citizen testimony in the matter and by those accounts it seems that meeting represented a totally opposite approach to Mayor Mark Funkhouser's "open government."

I have yet to see "an official" response to what sounds to me like utter rudeness on the Parks Board's part. The Mayor IS completely accountable on this one.

Was all of Mr. Funkhouser's campaign rhetoric for real or have we Kansas City Missourians been hosed ... again?
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