Kansas City, MO-

Elevators- Though there have been a number of discussions with codes officials over the past several weeks, there is still serious concern among owners that any recognition of the existence of the state codes requirements by an inspector, regardless of jurisdiction, could result in increased liability exposure. There will be continuing efforts to seek a resolution.

Overland Park-

Storm Water Utility- We are requesting that each of you who have property in OP to submit copies of your storm water utility assessment and provide us with a rentable square foot expense allocation, as well as impervious square footage ratios (relative to rentable square footage).

Johnson County-

Waste Water Assessment- On July 11th the Johnson County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to adopt the previously proposed water consumption based method of assessing system O&M charges. Owners will realize an off-setting savings on the previous Waste Water O&M portion of their property tax bill (this line item will be eliminated). There will be some disparity in expense accounting between properties that sub-meter water and those that don’t.

Johnson County-

Property Taxes- Barring any significant organized opposition, the Johnson County Board of Commissioners is poised to pass a one mill levy property tax increase in August. Revenues generated will be used to acquire additional park land. The increase would result in an average $6.00 - $7.00 per unit in additional taxes.

HUD / FHEO- 

On June 7th Doug Price, Ward Katz, and Sam Alpert attended a meeting at HUD with Regional Director Macie Houston and Deputy Director Terry Gratz. The purpose of the meeting was to open a dialogue with regard to frivolous Fair Housing claims and perceived abuses of broad enforcement powers. We have been asked to provide the Director’s office with as many documented claims (settled or dismissed) as possible to demonstrate the validity of our allegations. It is our hope that with the production of enough evidence, we can cause HUD to more closely scrutinize its internal practices and procedures.