-- After getting a warning shot fired across the bow when future Chiefs owner Clark Hunt talked about moving the team should its stadium concerns not be addressed, elected officials in Jackson County, Mo., are moving to design a stadium-improvement plan that would keep both the Chiefs and Royals at the Truman Sports Complex.

Though no formal presentation has been made, the most discussed prospects regarding the Chiefs call for major additions to be made to Arrowhead Stadium, much as the Packers did in preserving and expanding Lambeau Field.

A public vote on such a proposal, which would have generated some $360 million to be divided between the Chiefs and Royals, failed last November when voters in Kansas City-area counties in both Missouri and Kansas needed to approve the issue. The question did pass in Jackson County, the municipality that owns the Truman Sports Complex and leases it to the Chiefs and Royals.

A new proposal for expansion of Arrowhead and Kauffman will be considerably more expensive, but Jackson County officials say they are determined to keep both team in Missouri as opposed to a move to Kansas or, in a worst-case scenario, some other American city.

-- Pro Bowl guard Brian Waters, who missed the first two weeks of the team's voluntary on-field coaching sessions, has told the club he will attend the mandatory minicamp June 17-19.

Waters, who has not returned calls to inquiring media, has told the team he is training on his own and spending time with his family in Texas, and that his non-attendance at the coaching sessions is not contract-related.

QUOTE TO NOTE
"It's almost impossible -- well, it is impossible -- to have high-priced, veteran players at every starting position. It just doesn't work." -- Dick Vermeil, on the Chiefs' decision to cut Johnnie Morton for salary considerations and put relatively untested second-year receiver Samie Parker in his starting position.

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