Kansas City, Mo. ? Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt and Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius plan to meet early next year to discuss how the Kansas City area can attract new businesses and solve its infrastructure woes with a unified voice.

Sprint Nextel Corp. Chief Executive Officer Gary Forsee announced the summit Tuesday during a meeting of the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce and said he would host the meeting on his company’s campus in Overland Park, Kan., sometime in the first quarter of 2006.

Forsee, whose company recently moved to Reston, Va., but remains the largest private employer in Kansas City, said he asked the two governors to meet. He said he hoped the meeting would eliminate much of the internecine fighting between Kansas and Missouri elements that he said have sometimes stymied progress in the city.

Forsee also said he saw the summit developing strategies for better planning and paying for road construction, mass transit projects, expanded access to the performing arts and overdue stadium repairs that threaten the city’s leases with Major League Baseball’s Royals and the National Football League’s Chiefs.