Clock ticking for Royals to get on Clay County’s April ballot
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - As the calendar turns to 2024, Royals fans can expect a little more clarity on the location of the team’s future stadium.
Clay County Commissioner Jason Withington posted to social media that the “county has communicated to the team that we have to have a public commitment by 1/8, or they won’t be on our ballot in April.”
In December, Jackson County chair DaRon McGee added an agenda item to a weekly legislature meeting to authorize an extension to the 3/8-cent sales that has been in place since 2006.
County legislators voted to table the measure.
The Royals and Chiefs are asking for different in extending the 3/8th-cent sales tax that s the Truman Sports Complex, the Jackson County Sports Authority said in September. The Royals want a 40-year sales tax to stay in the county. The Chiefs have ed a 25-year extension of the sales tax.
Royals owner John Sherman has said the Royals would like that sales tax to continue -- and expect it to likely be on the ballot in the spring --- taking the $350 million it typically provides for stadium maintenance at Kauffman Stadium and shifting it to the construction of a new stadium.
Sherman announced in July that the team would has since backed off that intention.
The club has narrowed its choices to build a stadium and ading ballpark district in the North Kansas City.
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