Tagged: mayor bob mcdavid

UPDATE: 2:00PM, March 12:

Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• Funding draft recommendations released for Missouri colleges and universities
• Three MU grads are now part of U.S. Senate
• MU House Speaker Tim Jones touring the state
• Columbia Mayor Bob McDavid stressed importance of airline deal
• Stephens College selling properties to Hagan Scholarship Foundation
  

Columbia Mayor Bob McDavid plans to run for a second term and is putting extra importance on issues that he says still need resolving. McDavid thinks transportation is the key to improving Columbia’s economy in the coming years.

Columbia Mayor Bob McDavid says he plans to seek re-election for a second term.

McDavid told The Columbia Daily-Tribune that he wants see through some initiatives started during his watch, including efforts to improve air service and public transit.

McDavid was elected in 2010, becoming Columbia's first new mayor since 1995, when Darwin Hindman's 15-year tenure as mayor began. McDavid was elected with 54 percent of the vote.