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Tweet Every property in Westwood will be subject to a storm water utility fee if a plan presented to the city council can work its way through to approval in time. The fee will be based on the square footage of impervious surface at each property. The cost to private residences will average about $5 [...]
Tweet Although election day is over, a major issue for Roeland Park may still hang on provisional ballots that have yet to be counted. In northeast Johnson County, both Roeland Park and Mission had questions on Tuesday’s ballot that did not involve candidates running for office. In Mission, voters were asked to approve a [...]
Tweet Johnson County’s Record and Tax Administration today released figures for county property valuations and tax levies as they pertain to the 2013 county budget — figures that show a decline in total taxable valuation over the past year. Total valuation in September 2012 was $7,521,371,462, down from the $7,551,985,565 used in calculating the county’s [...]
Tweet Prairie Village city staff have unveiled a general outline for a proposed 2013 budget, and say they are working to keep existing service levels intact without raising property taxes. City Administrator Quinn Bennion told the City Council earlier this week his proposed budget would hold the city’s mill levy at 19.491 and the stormwater [...]
Tweet The latest statistics on city tax rates and indebtedness published by the Kansas League of Municipalities show Prairie Village compares favorably to its peer cities throughout the state. Of the 27 cities categorized as “Cities of the First Class,” Prairie Village has the fifth lowest amount of bond debt with $10,852,854. That’s compared to [...]
Tweet On a narrow vote after a sometimes contentious debate Monday, the Prairie Village city council took the first step toward asking residents whether they’d support a sales tax increase to fund the city’s parks master plan. Citing a desire to find a permanent revenue source to fund parks improvements, the city’s finance committee put [...]
Tweet Johnson County released its official 2012 tax and valuation figures on Monday, with the property tax rate homeowners will pay coming in very, very slightly under what had been predicted during the 2012 budgeting process. The budget approved by the Board of Commissioners in August had an estimated mill levy of 23.256. The actual [...]
Tweet One of the more-frequently cited tidbits as the debt ceiling debate grew increasingly heated last month was that fully 95 percent of Republican Congressman have signed a “Taxpayer Protection” pledge from Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform — a fact that caused considerable consternation among those who view such a pledges as essentially signing away [...]
Tweet The issue at the center of the last-minute debate about Prairie Village’s 2012 budget on Monday was parks. Or, more specifically, how to pay for upgrading them. The city adopted a Parks Master Plan in 2009 after having commissioned the report from a consulting firm at a cost of approximately $50,000. The plan called [...]
Tweet All things considered, the tax man takes it pretty easy on Prairie Villagers, according to the Kansas Government Journal. Data in the publication from the League of Kansas Municipalities shows that of the 27 Kansas municipalities categorized as cities of the first class, just one — Overland Park — has a lower city property [...]
Tweet A recent report distributed by the Mid-America Regional Council shows Prairie Village and Fairway residents pay among the lowest tax and utility rates in the entire Kansas City metro area. The report finds that Fairway and Prairie Village had the fourth and fifth cheapest costs of the 48 municipalities in the Kansas City metro [...]
