Hello Neighbor,
When I began my journey to City Council nearly three years ago, I had no clue how drastically different the world would look just midway through my term. My idealized version of serving the community — in-person town halls, front porch sessions, frequent visits to neighborhoods — quickly changed. Like so many of my constituents, my focus quickly turned to the health and safety of my family. Serving the 4th District from my dining room table while managing virtual school for my kids was anything but simple; I know many of you had similar experiences.
It was tough, but I remained steadfast in my commitment to serving Kansas City. While COVID raged, we still had a city to run, public services to maintain, and policy goals to achieve. I made promises along the campaign trail that I didn’t give up on. While my priorities had to be flexible — the health of Kansas Citians was at stake — we steered KC through the crisis while at the same time pushing transformative policy.
I’m so proud of what we have achieved together so far, and I’m looking forward to our future accomplishments. It is an honor to serve you.
Many thanks,
Eric Bunch
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Investing in Communities
Investing in our communities, small businesses, and neighborhoods is essential to create a strong, vibrant, and sustainable Kansas City. By supporting our communities with essential city services and funds, maintenance, and development; we can foster security, economic prosperity, and vibrant communities that are better able to respond to challenges and growth.
Investing in Families & Young People
Investing in the education and city services provided for young people and families can have profound impacts on a community. Making sure we are connecting families and young people with resources can result in more job opportunities, higher wages, and access to quality education, all of which lead to a stronger and healthier community. As a father of three, this priority hits close to home for me.
Compassionate Leadership
Being a compassionate leader and elected official is essential for establishing an environment of trust, collaboration, and respect. Compassionate leaders and elected officials have the ability to bring people together and create meaningful change through understanding, empathy, and kindness.
Improving City Services
Developing innovative solutions to improve the services the city provides and investing in training to ensure we are providing the highest quality of service is vital. As Kansas City grows, getting feedback from residents, business owners, and visitors on what we can do to improve services and make sure they are meeting the needs of the community is a high priority of mine.
Transparency & Accountability
Being a transparent leader is essential in building trust with those I have the honor to represent and lead. Creating a legislative process and environment built on transparent community engagement and mutual respect, leads us to more successful outcomes, projects, and an initiatives that serve our people. Being an accountable leader is important to me because I value being a trustworthy and credible resource to the communities I serve and not special interests.
