Overview
- Independence voters are deciding whether to keep the district’s four-day school week for the next 10 years, a vote required by a recent Missouri law or the schedule reverts to five days next school year.
- Jackson County’s ballot asks whether to make the assessor an elected office rather than an appointment, a change sought after 54,000 property assessment appeals in 2023; if approved, the first election would be in 2028.
- Prairie Village voters are considering an initiative to abandon the mayor–council form of government, with Kansas law allowing the city to operate as usual until a new structure is proposed and passed.
- Kansas ballots include multiple mayoral contests, notably Overland Park and the Unified Government CEO/Mayor race in Wyandotte County between Rose Mulvane Henry and Crystal Watson after Tyrone Garner declined to seek reelection.
- The Jackson County Election Board reported only 3,500 absentee votes over the six weeks before Election Day with overall turnout expected to be light, and polls in both states close at 7 p.m.