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KC Town Hall LLC

A $490,539 public funding award, field implementation, and responsible transition

Secured a $490,539 public funding award by co-developing KC Town Hall's successful CCED proposal and serving as the City's named developer/presenter for the exact request, then transitioned the project to a mission-aligned organization.

A person in a yellow hard hat and rain jacket uses a drill on a roof assembly.
Roof work during KC Town Hall field implementation, March 24, 2019. Photograph by Paul Mossine. From Jamie Burkart's photo archive.

What to know first

My responsibility
Co-founder, Project Manager & CCED Developer/Presenter
What became usable
A successful $490,539 public funding request, planning materials, public-benefit documentation, stakeholder context, a multi-year municipal compliance record, and a mission-aligned transition.
Evidence to inspect
  • $490,539 public funding award secured through a successful CCED request
  • Named City developer/presenter for the exact request
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At a glance

Role
Co-founder, Project Manager & CCED Developer/Presenter
Years
2019-2024 public record
Context
Built Environment
Status
Short proof page
Visibility
public-safe
Role fit
Funding strategy, proposal development, public presentation, long-horizon project management, public-benefit documentation, compliance coordination, and implementation support.

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Context

KC Town Hall LLC involved adaptive reuse planning for a long-vacant historic building. The work sat at the intersection of built environment, historic preservation, public benefit, funding context, stakeholder documentation, and long-horizon project management.

What was unclear

Redevelopment work carries many layers: property history, funding processes, public value, stakeholder needs, preservation constraints, and private legal or financial context that should not become public portfolio content.

What became usable

Jamie helped turn years of field work, planning, neighborhood listening, construction coordination, and public-benefit documentation into a successful municipal funding request and a responsible transition to a mission-aligned organization.

Securing the award

Jamie secured a $490,539 public funding award for KC Town Hall by co-developing the successful CCED proposal and serving as the City's named developer/presenter for the exact request. The Board recommended the full request, and the Council accepted and appropriated the amount.[1][2][3]

Responsible transition

Jamie later transitioned the project to a mission-aligned organization.

What I did

Jamie co-founded KC Town Hall LLC and served as project manager, co-leading redevelopment planning and public-benefit documentation for the proposed adaptive reuse.[7] Jamie remained a named developer point of contact through a multi-year administrative process. A 2021 Kansas City Star investigation documented repeated City Hall roadblocks; City-posted reports in 2022 and 2023 then show progress from unresolved M/WBE and CREO requirements to established goals and active coordination.[4][5][6]

Securing the award names Jamie's documented proposal-and-presentation work and the successful result. It does not assign him the Board's or Council's institutional authority, erase shared project credit, or imply that the award was a payment to Jamie.

Public service interface

KC Town Hall used its shared public account as an operating surface: 100 of 183 surviving records concern resident tire reports, pickup coordination, result reporting, and program continuity from 2019 through 2022. Public repost lists show seven appearances by three then-sitting Council-member accounts, and two sitting members authored direct responses in a 2019 neighborhood-business exchange.[8][9][10][11][12]

The account was a shared project surface. The record establishes a recurring operating pattern and bounded public interaction, not who authored every post, an audited service total, official endorsement, or sole credit for collective field work.

A service promised, delivered, and documented

The outreach design made a recurring resident service usable at the curb: who qualified, what residents could request, and when the pickup would happen. The matched field photographs show one collection site before and after the tires were removed.

Archived Tired of Tires flyer announcing a recurring free residential tire-pickup service from KC Town Hall and the Oak Park Neighborhood Association.
An archived outreach design translated eligibility and a recurring schedule into a resident-facing service promise. Obsolete contact details and dates are excluded from this public derivative.From the KC Town Hall project archive. Component design authorship remains under review.
A large curbside stack of used tires in front of a residential block and community garden.
Before collection: one curbside site in the project's curated June 2022 field archive.From the KC Town Hall project archive. Photographer not identified in the retained export.
The same residential curb and community-garden frontage after the stack of used tires was removed.
After collection: the matched frame retained beside the before image in the project's curated June 2022 field archive.From the KC Town Hall project archive. Photographer not identified in the retained export.

This sequence documents the project-level service interface and one completed collection. It does not publish resident records, an address, obsolete contact details, or an audited program total.

Transferable proof

This is long-horizon implementation proof: ambiguous goals, many stakeholders, public/private boundaries, funding context, and documentation that has to be useful beyond one meeting.

Sources and notes

These notes preserve what each source supports and where its limits remain. See something that needs correction? Contact Jamie.

View 12 source notes

  1. [1] City of Kansas City, Missouri, Central City Economic Development Sales Tax Board meeting materials, June-July 2019.

    The June 12 minutes identify Jamie as KC Town Hall's developer/presenter for a $490,539 request. The July 16 minutes record the Board's unanimous vote to recommend approval and funding in that amount.

    Boundary: This source does not establish sole authorship of the proposal or presentation materials, that Jamie controlled or solely caused the Board vote, Council acceptance or appropriation, an executed funding agreement, receipt, disbursement, expenditure, construction, or completion.

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  2. [2] Council of Kansas City, Missouri, Second Committee Substitute for Resolution No. 190649, adopted September 26, 2019.

    Official document

    The authenticated resolution's fourth recital records the July 16, 2019 Board recommendation; Sections 1-3 record Council acceptance and authority to negotiate a conditional funding agreement.

    Boundary: This source does not establish that a funding agreement was executed, that funds were received, disbursed, or spent, that the project was completed, Jamie's individual role in securing the Board or Council actions.

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  3. [3] Council of Kansas City, Missouri, Committee Substitute for Ordinance No. 190642, passed September 26, 2019.

    Official document

    The legislative history records passage as substituted; Section 2's project table on pages 1-2 appropriates $490,539 to KC Town Hall.

    Boundary: This source does not establish that appropriated funds were received, disbursed, or spent, that a funding agreement was executed, that the project was completed, Jamie's individual role in securing the Council vote.

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  4. [4] Kevin Hardy, Mike Hendricks, and Cortlynn Stark, 'Advocates say City Hall has moved too slow with special tax meant to improve East Side,' The Kansas City Star, December 27, 2021.

    The investigation leads with KC Town Hall, reports a final contract still incomplete more than two years after the Board recommendation, and describes insurance and tax-document roadblocks. Its elevated lead photograph of the building is credited to Tammy Ljungblad; publication by the Star does not clear reuse rights for this portfolio.

    Boundary: This source does not establish the later project-withdrawal reason, receipt or expenditure of appropriated funds, construction or completion, Jamie's individual role or causal credit, portfolio republication rights for the Kansas City Star photograph.

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  5. [5] City of Kansas City, Missouri, Central City Economic Development Sales Tax Board meeting materials, December 13, 2022.

    The public packet calls the Round 2 amounts awards, reports no KC Town Hall disbursement, and includes a pre-initial report naming Jamie and project counsel as developer points of contact. Contact details are intentionally omitted.

    Boundary: This source does not establish sole responsibility for every project submission or compliance task, an executed funding agreement, receipt, expenditure, construction, or completion, the reason for the project's later withdrawal.

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  6. [6] City of Kansas City, Missouri, KC Town Hall CCED pre-initial fund-disbursement bimonthly report, public meeting packet.

    The City-posted form is labeled December 2023 Report (October/November 2023). It again names Jamie and project counsel as developer points of contact and records established M/WBE goals and active CREO coordination. Contact details are intentionally omitted.

    Boundary: This source does not establish who performed each underlying compliance task, an executed funding agreement, construction start, receipt, expenditure, or completion, the reason for the project's later withdrawal.

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  7. [7] Jamie Burkart, 'Resume - Technical Project Manager,' KC Town Hall LLC entry, July 11, 2026, revised July 26, 2026.

    The maintained KC Town Hall LLC entry identifies Jamie as co-founder and project manager, describes his planning and public-benefit documentation contribution, and includes the authorized award-and-transition wording.

    Boundary: This source does not establish independent third-party verification of Jamie's contribution, Jamie's causal role in the Board recommendation or Council actions, sole ownership of collective project work, receipt or expenditure of the City appropriation, construction or project completion.

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  8. [8] Authenticated read-only review of the public @KCTownHall Posts, Replies, and repost-list surfaces, with a 183-record public-safe ledger, July 14-15, 2026.

    The profile displayed 183 posts. Cross-tab reconciliation recovered all 183 surviving items: 142 account posts, 13 account replies, and 28 reposts from 16 public accounts. A fresh July 15 traversal exactly matched all status IDs, and all 40 repost-bearing account statuses were audited. The ledger preserves posted destinations, bounded classifications, and mutable reaction snapshots without reproducing post text, phone numbers, or street addresses.

    Boundary: This source does not establish a platform export, deletion history, or proof that no earlier item was removed, the individual teammate who authored each shared-account record, private messages, historical analytics, unique people reached, clickthrough, adoption, or service outcomes, independent verification of project-reported tire or avoided-fee figures, partnership, endorsement, or sole credit from mentions, replies, reposts, or linked sources.

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  9. [9] Then-Councilmember Quinton Lucas quote-post responding to @KCTownHall about Leon's Thriftway, April 29, 2019.

    Lucas said he had spoken with ownership and was exploring whether the store could remain open.

    Boundary: This source does not establish formal partnership, project adoption, the outcome of preservation efforts, endorsement of every KC Town Hall activity.

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  10. [10] Then-Councilmember Jolie Justus reply to @KCTownHall about Leon's Thriftway, April 29, 2019.

    Justus said work with the Economic Development Corporation and community was underway on possible solutions.

    Boundary: This source does not establish formal partnership, project adoption, the outcome of preservation efforts, endorsement of every KC Town Hall activity.

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  11. [11] City of Kansas City, Missouri, KCMOre Fall and Winter 2018 Council roster.

    Official city publication identifying Quinton Lucas and Jolie Justus as members of the City Council during the 2015-2019 Council term.

    Boundary: This source does not establish control of a social account, authorship of a particular post, engagement with KC Town Hall, project adoption or endorsement.

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  12. [12] City of Kansas City, Missouri, Business Session membership record, accessed July 15, 2026.

    The official membership record lists Melissa Robinson as a Councilmember from July 19, 2019, through July 31, 2023, and in the following term.

    Boundary: This source does not establish control of @Robinson4kc, authorship of a particular post, engagement with KC Town Hall, project adoption, partnership, or endorsement.

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Primary artifacts

  • map
  • guide
  • source map
  • template

Artifact gallery

KC Town Hall proposal map showing a ten-minute walking area around the project location.

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Ten-minute-walk proposal map

A neighborhood-scale planning graphic from the 2019 proposal, presented here as a public-safe crop with obsolete contact details removed.

The map made a proposed neighborhood-scale constituency visible. It documents a planning frame, not a completed program or outcome.

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Public-benefit documentation set

Representative materials for describing intended public value, funding context, and stakeholder needs.

Scope and sources

Known

Jamie co-led the project, served as the City's named developer/presenter for the successful $490,539 request, remained a named developer point of contact through documented compliance progress in 2022-2023, and later transitioned the project to a mission-aligned organization. The complete surviving public-account corpus separately documents a collective resident intake, service-coordination, and reporting workflow.

Open

The receiving organization, legal form, timing, and transfer scope are intentionally not asserted. The public transcript of Jamie's recalled City Council testimony remains unrecovered.

Protected

Private personal, correspondence, financial, legal, property, banking, and stakeholder details are omitted.

Source basis: Official Kansas City Council and CCED records, a protected public-safe review of the 2019 proposal, the complete public account corpus, Council-role records, approved resume language, and bounded project context.

Claim and care limits

Securing the award names Jamie's documented proposal-and-presentation role; institutional authority remained with the Board and Council, and appropriation was not payment to Jamie. The transition is an authorized first-party professional account. Private personal, financial, legal, property, and stakeholder details are omitted.

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Credits

  • Jamie Burkart
  • KC Town Hall LLC collaborators