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Kansas City Public Schools is pushing back against a proposed 30-year tax exemption for the Country Club Plaza development, calling the plan "malpractice" in a letter obtained by KSHB.

The letter, sent by the KCPS superintendent Jennifer Collier to Port KC and city leaders, expresses the district's opposition to the tax incentive proposal from Dallas-based Gillon Property Group, which owns the Plaza. The district says it is "distressed" by the plan.

Reporter Charlie Keegan reported in November that Plaza owners, Dallas-based Gillon Property Group, asked not to pay property taxes for 30 years.

Instead of paying property taxes to taxing jurisdictions, the Plaza is proposing to make alternate payments to the same jurisdictions.

In the letter, KCPS say

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