Trey Runnion kept in place at Port Authority as FBI takes interest

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The FBI is apparently sniffing around the Port Authority of Kansas City, but a City Council committee declined an opportunity on Wednesday to jettison the agency’s chairman, Trey Runnion.

Mayor Mark Funkhouser has identified replacements for Runnion and another Port Authority board member. The agency has come under fire because its lawyer, William Session, received a contract to excavate land that the Port Authority sold to a private developer. But members of the City Council are clinging to the idea that retaining Runnion, Session’s enabler, is better than the alternative Funkhouser is proposing.