Negotiations, unresolved issues loom over fate of stadium sales tax extension [Video]

Less than two weeks before most Jackson County voters go to the polls to decide the fate of a sales tax key to the Royals and Chiefs stadium plans, there are ongoing negotiations and unresolved issues.On Wednesday, the two teams released signed three-page promises in separate community benefits agreements or CBAs with Jackson County.The county’s attorneys are reviewing those documents.One promise in those CBAs is more than $260 million combined from the teams spread out over 40 years.Community boards comprised of members selected in part by the teams would decide how to spend money each year on items like affordable housing, job training, and youth programming.”I thought it was a historic rollout of an unprecedented community benefits package,” said Bob Kendrick, director of the Negro Leagues Museum. “This is something that we should be all standing applauding because this is part of the transformation that we’ve spoken before about that …