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Debate Over Memorial Design, Fund Solicitation

KANSAS CITY-With construction already started on the $30-million Liberty Memorial monument and museum restoration, critics are objecting. The memorial is the country's only large-scale project honoring World War I veterans.

By Judie Burkhalter | Updated on March 14, 2001

KANSAS CITY-Controversy is still swirling around the restoration project at the Liberty Memorial near Crown Center. The Kansas City Board of Parks and Recreation Commissioners and local critics are debating the need to solicit outside monies for the $30-million museum project.

Critics have teamed with the US chapter of the International Council on Monuments and Sites to object to plans for the museum. Their message is to be conveyed to at least 15 other counterparts in other countries.

Mark McHenry, the deputy parks director in Kansas City, has said the money from foreign countries is needed for the restoration project. Liberty Memorial was closed in 1994 due to structural problems. In 1998, Kansas City voters approved a temporary half-cent sales tax that garnered more than $45 million for the restoration of the memorial and museum and a maintenance budget.

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