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KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 The city council will have to decide soon on a part of the new stadium project intended for the Royals.<\/p>\n
The Missouri Workers Center or Stand-Up KC, has gotten their petition certified<\/a><\/strong>, calling for a vote of the people before city funding is committed to it.<\/p>\n Kansas City, Riverside cope with \u2018Orange Sadness\u2019 after Netherlands knockout <\/a><\/p>\n The Royals\u2019 new home is supposed to go up at the northwest corner of 26th and Gillham on the south side of Crown Center. The city council will have about two months to act on the Missouri Workers Center plan, but they\u2019ll likely be working on their own this summer or fall.<\/p>\n In April, Mayor Quinton Lucas introduced a plan to keep the team in the city, but the funding for it hasn\u2019t been approved yet. The council could act on it before residents decide on the Missouri Workers Center one.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re not closing up local government in the intervening time until some point at which either voters pass and approve something or there\u2019s some other action taken,\u201d Lucas said in an interview with FOX4 Tuesday.<\/p>\n The 60-day clock for the council to act on the Missouri Workers Center plan begins Thursday. It will be the first time they\u2019ve met since the petition was certified. FOX4 asked Councilman Crispin Rea if that complicates this stadium process.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat this is is folks gathering signatures, voicing an opinion,\u201d he responded. \u201cThat\u2019s what our system allows and requires, and so, I wouldn\u2019t describe it as a complication so much as just another element of getting this project done that we\u2019ve got to navigate.\u201d<\/p>\n See the latest forecast, maps and radar for Kansas City <\/a><\/p>\n Rea lives in the ward where the stadium would go, but he was one of two council members to not vote in favor of the preliminary plan in April. He abstained because in the beginning of that month, he thought the stadium was going to go east of Union Stadion and not at Hallmark\u2019s corporate headquarters.<\/p>\n \u201cI had found out an hour before the vote from what was Washington Square Park to the location that we have now all discussed,\u201d he said Tuesday. \u201cNotification and conversations had not included some of the immediate stakeholders like Ronald McDonald House and other folks, and so the conversation that we were able to have after that vote was with the team to go do that engagement and talk to those stakeholders and make sure that they were included and shared all the details, and so that did happen over that following weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n A 60-day deadline to act on the Missouri Workers Center plan would be August 31. The deadline to be on the November ballot though is August 25, meaning a Royals\u2019 ballot initiative may not happen this year.<\/p>\n