Scott Taylor (Missouri)

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Scott Taylor

Prior offices

Kansas City City Council At-large District 6

Successor: Andrea Bough

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Elections and appointments

Last election

April 2, 2019

Scott Taylor was an at-large member of the Kansas City City Council. Taylor assumed office in 2011. Taylor left office on August 1, 2019.

Taylor ran for election for Mayor of Kansas City. Taylor lost in the primary on April 2, 2019.

Taylor was an at-large member of the Kansas City City Council in Missouri, holding Position 6. He was elected to the council in 2011. Taylor could not run for re-election in 2019 due to term limits.

Elections

2019

See also: Mayoral election in Kansas City, Missouri (2019)

General election

General election for Mayor of Kansas City

Quinton Lucas defeated Jolie Justus in the general election for Mayor of Kansas City on June 18, 2019.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Quinton Lucas (Nonpartisan)	58.6	40,149
		Jolie Justus (Nonpartisan)	41.4	28,415

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source 1 Source 2 Source 3	Total votes: 68,564
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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for Mayor of Kansas City

The following candidates ran in the primary for Mayor of Kansas City on April 2, 2019.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Jolie Justus (Nonpartisan)	22.9	12,876
✔		Quinton Lucas (Nonpartisan)	18.5	10,402
		Alissia Canady (Nonpartisan)	13.6	7,617
		Steve Miller (Nonpartisan)	12.2	6,847
		Scott Wagner (Nonpartisan)	9.0	5,072
		Scott Taylor (Nonpartisan)	8.7	4,891
		Phil Glynn (Nonpartisan)	7.1	3,991
		Jermaine Reed (Nonpartisan)	5.8	3,241
		Clay Chastain (Nonpartisan)	0.9	518
	Submit photo	Henry Klein (Nonpartisan)	0.7	365
	Submit photo	Vincent Lee (Nonpartisan)	0.4	205
		Other/Write-in votes	0.2	100

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source 1 Source 2 Source 3	Total votes: 56,125 (100.00% precincts reporting)
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2015

See also: Kansas City, Missouri municipal elections, 2015

The city of Kansas City, Missouri, held nonpartisan elections for mayor and city council on June 23, 2015. A primary election took place on April 7, 2015. The filing deadline for candidates who wished to run in this election was January 13, 2015. All 12 city council seats were up for election.

In the race for the District 6 At-large seat, incumbent Scott Taylor was unopposed.

Campaign themes

2019

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Campaign website

Taylor's campaign website stated the following:

“	As your City Councilman for the last seven years, I have made both tough and strategic decisions that have helped to generate a renaissance in Kansas City. My private sector real world experience has helped guide me. Investing in infrastructure, leading small business initiatives to cut the red tape, providing resources for start-up businesses, and supporting large transformative projects such as the streetcar line downtown, hundreds of new single family homes in the Northland and Cerner 16,000 new jobs campus in South KC have led to billions of dollars of new investment in the city, as well as thousands of new jobs. We need to make sure this continues. As we grow our population and investment in Kansas City, we will generate more tax revenue in the general fund that can benefit all neighborhoods. Transparency: Councilman Taylor has been an advocate of transparency by elected officials. He firmly believes taxpayers have a right to a full accounting of where their money is spent and politician travel is not necessary. His seven years on the City Council he has been vocal in his concern for taxpayer funded travel and has spent $0 dollars on travel. As a result of his financial stewardship, he has proven to be the most frugal Councilperson and a significant portion of his allocated budget remains unspent each year. When the Council put limits on the City Manager’s spending, he not only supported this ordinance, but also amended it to ensure that a public hearing always occurs when the City Council decides to hire contractors or legal counsel. The light of transparency is important to Councilman Taylor. Councilman Taylor introduced ethics reform to eliminate taxpayer travel, ban gifts and meals from lobbyists, and close the revolving door after Council service. Neighborhood Improvements: Place-making is important for any vibrant city and Kansas City is no different. Taylor will work to make certain that neighborhoods all over the city are invested in, improved, and maintained. Families thrive and pride in the community is built when our neighborhoods are strong. He knows from his community meetings with residents that our basic services need to be continually improved. If elected Mayor, he will create a strategy to respond to residents' basic city services needs such as illegal dumping, code violations or pothole repairs. Taylor has proposed a pilot home repair program that would address block by block repairs. Combined with the $800 million infrastructure bond and PIAC renewal we can significantly improve neighborhoods. With the infrastructure work that will be done during the next two decades, we need to deliver those services in a more efficient manner that leverages public investment and saves taxpayer dollars. Basic Services Improvements: The KC Stat program has been a great continuous improvement program for basic city services and should be continued. KC Stat is where the Mayor and City Manager meet with City Departments on a bi-annual basis to address city service statistics in a given area. We need to continue to look for innovative ways to use technology to more quickly repair potholes, water main breaks, and fix streets and roads. Councilman Taylor would add citizens to the KC Stat panel to secure their input on basic city services. It is important for 311 calls to be continue to improve efficiency. Education: As a former School Board member, Councilman Taylor understands the issues and challenges facing our school districts. He believes the City can respect the autonomy of each school district but can participate in collaborative programs, especially in early childhood learning. Education is the great equalizer. He would continue the Mayor’s Turn the Page program and look for other ways to support our schools. Crime Reduction: Councilman Taylor has been a strong and consistent advocate for improving public safety. He believes in the immediacy of solving crime as well as solutions that minimize it. His future plans will implement collaborative programs that frame crime as a public health issue. His approach to crime emphasizes eliminating blight through creative employment programs. Councilman Taylor supported significant increases in funding for more police on the street, more 911-call takers to improve police response times, and reward increases for tips leading to suspect arrests. He also supported an initiative that would increase community interaction officers and social workers for each patrol station to work with neighborhood groups and families, respectively. Crime reduction is linked with neighborhoods improvements. Job Growth: Small business is the economic engine of Kansas City. As your City Councilman, Councilman Taylor has built a strong track record of helping small businesses get started and address city issues as they have arisen. In the 6th District during his time over 6,000 new employees and over $300 million of new investment have happened and that does not count the massive South KC Cerner project with an additional 16,000 new jobs and billions of dollars in investment. If elected Mayor, he will continue to focus on helping local mom and pop businesses who are most likely to employ local people. Whether it is through his work helping cut red tape for small businesses or helping build access to capital through microloans, he is committed to a multidimensional approach to job growth which includes a focus on our local economy. Being strategic in hiring our local companies to do City projects is important as local companies are more likely to keep dollars in the local economy.	”
—Scott Taylor's campaign website (2019)

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Footnotes

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Preceded by -	Kansas City City Council, At-large Position 6 2011-2019	Succeeded by Andrea Bough