Kansas City Ballot, August 4, 2026

Vote YES
on all five.

Clean water.

$0.0Bfor Kansas City

$0new taxes

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Vote Yes

August 4, 2026

No New Taxes

Five Questions

Five Yeses

Sample ballot

Here is what your YES looks like

Five questions, in the order you will see them. Tap any one for the full breakdown below.

Your ballot, at a glance

Your August 4 ballot

Five questions for Kansas City. We recommend voting YES on every one.

Tuesday, August 4, 2026

$0.0B

in bonds across the four bond questions

new tax rate on any question

The four bond questions total $1.7 billion. Water and sewer are revenue bonds repaid from utility fees; housing and civic buildings are general-obligation bonds that hold the property-tax rate flat by replacing retiring debt. Central City renews an existing one-eighth-cent sales tax at the same rate, so no question raises the tax rate.

On Your Ballot

Five questions. Five yeses.

Tap any question for the full breakdown, the official ballot language, and the sources behind it.

No rate increaseNeeds a four-sevenths supermajority

Build affordable homes across Kansas City.

Double the City’s annual affordable-housing investment by replacing retiring debt, keeping the property tax rate flat.

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No rate increaseNeeds a four-sevenths supermajority

Repair Bartle Hall, City Hall, and more.

Fix aging civic buildings by replacing retiring debt, with no projected property tax rate increase.

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Keep investing in the East Side.

Continue the one-eighth-cent sales tax that funds economic development on the East Side, at the same rate.

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Fix the pipes that bring you clean water.

Repair and modernize the water system with revenue bonds, funded through water rates, not property taxes.

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Keep raw sewage out of our rivers.

Fund the federal Clean Water Act cleanup with revenue bonds, repaid through sewer fees, not property taxes.

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new taxes

Five yeses. Zero new taxes.

Funded by utility feesNew bonds replace old debtRenews an existing tax

Where the $1.7 billion goes

The four bond questions total $1.7 billion. Question 3 (Central City) is a sales-tax renewal, not a bond, so it carries no new authorization.

Clean Water (Question 4)$0M
Sewers (Question 5)$0M
Affordable Housing (Question 1)$0M
Civic Buildings (Question 2)$0M

Total projected need$0.0B

Make Your Plan

Make your plan to vote

Step one

By July 8

Step two

July 21

Early voting opens

Step three

August 4

Election Day

Polls open 6am to 7pm

Find your polling place

Not sure where you vote? Look up your assigned polling place and hours through the Kansas City Election Board or your county election board, and confirm the official question order on your authenticated sample ballot.

Questions and Answers

What you need to know

No. None of the five questions creates a new tax or raises a tax rate. The water and sewer questions are revenue bonds repaid only from utility fees, not property taxes. The housing and civic-buildings questions are property-tax-backed bonds, but they are timed to replace older debt being paid off, so the debt-service tax rate is projected to stay flat. The Central City question simply renews a sales tax that is already in place at the same rate. A YES on all five does not increase your tax rates.

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