Mayor Quinton Lucas & Mayor Curtis Skoog
The State of the City
Mayors Quinton Lucas and Curtis Skoog will come together with The Economic Club of Kansas City to discuss the pivotal state of their cities. The mayors of the metro’s two largest municipalities plan to share their distinct projects and visions. They’ll share the challenges and opportunities that come with an expanding group of residents relocating to the Kansas City metro area. The mayors will also reveal their future plans to collaborate as they get ready to host one of the most watched sporting events in the world, the World Cup.
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Speaker Mayor Quinton Lucas & Mayor Curtis Skoog
The State of the City
Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas
Born and raised in Kansas City’s East Side communities, Quinton Lucas serves as the 55th mayor of Kansas City.
Known as “Mayor Q” since 2019, he led Kansas City’s adoption of the nationally acclaimed zero-fare transit initiative, helped secure the City’s position as one of the only 11 American cities to host soccer’s 2026 World Cup and has promoted women and persons from underrepresented groups to a majority of seats on City boards and commissions.
Having experienced homelessness in his youth, Mayor Lucas created the City’s first Housing Trust Fund, spurring the development of hundreds of units of housing attainable for Kansas Citians in need.
Mayor Lucas is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis and obtained a law degree from Cornell University. He and his wife, Katherine, are the proud parents of their son, Bennett
Overland Park Mayor Curtis Skoog
Voters first elected Curtis Skoog to the City Council after talking to residents about the need for reinvestment in Overland Park’s existing neighborhoods and commercial areas. As a result, Skoog went to work and created a community plan for a $600 million redevelopment of the Metcalf Corridor. Since then, the area has undergone significant revitalization.
Elected mayor of Overland Park in November 2021, Skoog continues to lead the community forward through the first new community-based housing, redevelopment, community and neighborhood comprehensive plan in 30 years.
He is a graduate of the Kansas Chamber of Commerce Leadership Kansas Program, The Greater Kansas City Area Chamber of Commerce Centurions Leadership Program and the University of Kansas School of Business.
Professionally, Skoog works for the Institute of Building Technology and Safety. He and his wife Amy have three children who graduated from schools in the Shawnee Mission School District
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