Business View Civil & Municipal | Volume 2, Issue 8

31 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 2, ISSUE 8 KANSAS C I TY , KANSAS bnsf.com Connecting the Kansas City Economy to Markets Around the World for More than a Century connections to power and water, and the unified government won’t charge a sewer hookup fee. To help ease the blow of rising property taxes due to an increase in property value, 95 percent of property taxes on those properties will be abated for 10 years. Alvey states, “We’re doing everything we can to make it easy for investors to come in and build new; to market those homes and bring people back to the areas that have been depopulated.” All of these improvements to the city wouldn’t be possible without a strong team behind the city and county’s unified government. “It helps to have everybody always on the same page,” says Kindle. “Of course, we have disagreements… I do think that you have to have elected officials across the spectrum that even when they aren’t agreeing on every policy decision or every economic development project, there is agreement on the core principles. I believe our unified government works well in that regard.”