Whether it’s building a new airport terminal or capping the freeway for a downtown park, big projects coming out of City Hall grab headlines.

But most City Council members will tell you that Kansas City’s half million residents are far more concerned with basic public services. Garbage pickup, plugging potholes and sending help when they call 911. Do that first.

Or in the case of one Northland neighborhood named Chaumiere, getting city officials to build a sidewalk along a busy road. That was their top priority. And now that the project is complete, Chaumiere residents have a message for others who feel their neighborhood has been ignored for too long.

“You can do it,” says Laurel Shoger-Hall, the Chaumiere neighbhorhood association vice president who helped lead the effort to get t

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