A proposal to bring a rolling roof to the Truman Sports Complex ground to a halt Monday, when Jackson County officials withdrew a resolution to put the project on the Aug. 8 ballot.

Legislator Dennis Waits cited unfavorable poll numbers and pressure from businesses that would have felt the burden of a use tax as reasons not to put the issue on the August ballot.

Voters passed a 3â8-cent sales tax to renovate the stadiums in April, ensuring the teams would remain in Kansas City. But a plan calling for the use tax, which would have raised about $170 million for the $202 million roof, won only 49 percent of the vote.

A proposal must be submitted by May 30 to be on the August ballot. And while a vote on the roof could conceivably come in November, that would hamper the ability of architects and contractors to begin the renovations on time.

County officials said they were seeking more money from the franchises. Under the original proposal, the Chiefs would have paid $32 million from their own funds and through naming rights. The Royals would have paid nothing.

“The teams, especially the Chiefs, after reviewing the results of the polls, are not ready to go forward at this time,” Waits said. “It just shows we have some work to do on this.”

Officials said they hoped to begin construction immediately after the 2006 football season.

Royals owner David Glass and Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt have both expressed interest in revisiting the rolling roof plan, which led to assurances of the 2015 Super Bowl and the potential to host NCAA basketball championships if it were passed.

“Even though the election was close, I think the people of Jackson County spoke loudly,” Legislator Henry Rizzo said. “I am willing to look at another proposal but it has got to change.”