Potential government partners for Chiefs, Royals stadium deal suggested [Video]

A push to keep the Royals and Chiefs in Kansas City, Missouri, with public funding is incomplete.The teams are looking for new options after Jackson County voters decisively defeated a sales tax referendum earlier this month to help finance a new downtown ballpark for the Royals and renovations for Arrowhead Stadium.”I think that’s something that’s going to take time. It’s not something that’s going to just kind of be thrown up into the ether out of nowhere,” Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas said. “And to the extent that there have been any discussions that suggest otherwise. I don’t think that’s necessarily an accurate description of what the city would ever look to do. I think we want to be additive.”Recently, the Kansas City Council approved a record $2.3 billion budget, which takes effect in May.To do it, city leaders dipped into the general fund or savings account to help pay …