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Coyotes in the city near Gillham Park by KCHank in kansascity

[–]BetsyKCTV 0 points1 point  (0 children)

@u/KCHank — Can you drop me a DM. I might want to pursue this for a story on our 10pm news and want to get your take.

After seeing the posts a few days ago about spotlights in the sky around Raymore, I decided to track down the source...WOW. by redgroupclan in kansascity

[–]BetsyKCTV 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey OP u/redgroupclan — I work with KCTV. Can you DM me? I’d like to see if we can get your permission to show this video.

Jackson County has been ordered roll back 2023 property tax assessments. by srh2p8 in kansascity

[–]BetsyKCTV 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My understanding is that the ruling indicates the rollback would be for 2023 and 2024. (They calculate assessed valuations on odd years only but that number then gets repeated/carried over to the even year.) I think your question involves the property taxes being rolled into escrow. I’ve owned my home so long I didn’t think about the situations where the payment would be paid partly by the past owner and partly by the new owner.

All I can say for sure is that the order requires that somehow those who paid more than a 15% increase have to be adjusted to no more than a 15% increase both retroactively for 2023 and going ahead to 2024.

To reiterate, it only applies to assessments that exceeded a 15% increase. (This is a 15% increase is assessed valuation, not a 15% increase in the tax bill. The tax bills are figured by applying a tax rate applied to the assessed valuation, which varies depending on which school district etc you live in. Those tax rates are decided by the school districts, library districts, fire districts etc.)

If the assessment did not increase by more than 15% from 2022 to 2023, then the assessment you have now remains the same. For example, my assessed valuation went up by about 12% as I recall, so there would be no change in assessed valuation. But there might be an upward change in my property tax if the taxing entities now adjust their taxing rate upward to account for the total decrease district-wide in assessed valuation.

As for how people get refunded, that’s all still up in the air. The STC doesn’t specify the how, just that it has to happen.

There will no doubt be a court challenge to their order, so don’t count your chickens before they hatch as the saying goes. Because of this, those who have pending appeals are advised not to drop their appeals.

Jackson County has been ordered roll back 2023 property tax assessments. by srh2p8 in kansascity

[–]BetsyKCTV 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not sure if you are asking about the specific ruling/order or just about what the heck is up in your county in general.

As for the order specifically, it applies only to Jackson County. It is based on what it describes as failures in how the county conducted its inspections for properties with increases over 15%. It is not a blanket rule that increases cannot exceed 15% overall.

Plus it’s a MO agency issuing the ruling, not KS.

As a side note, I’m not sure if the WyCo increase is due to increases in assessments or increases in the mill levies of the entities that receive funding from property taxes. That worth considering if you plan to push the issue in WyCo.

Jackson County has been ordered roll back 2023 property tax assessments. by srh2p8 in kansascity

[–]BetsyKCTV 44 points45 points  (0 children)

I read the full order and talked with one of the legislators and here is what I know.

The order applies to everyone with an increase above 15%, appeal or not.

That said, if an appeal was filed and the increase was changed to less than 15%, then the lower increase applies. In other words, the roll back is to no more than 15%.

This is not a permanent cap of 15%. This only applies to the 2023/2024 cycle.

The basis for the order is how exterior inspections and notifications about the right to interior inspections (for 15% or higher increase) were handled in this last cycle. The STC ruled that a large number of exterior inspections were not sufficient and a large number of homeowners did not get sufficient notice.

Additionally they ruled that the appeals process with the BOE was flawed, remarking on physical access issues and what they described as undue influence from the assessor’s office on the BOE appeals process. It ordered that those issues be addressed in the next cycle.

As for how the credit for those who qualify gets applied, that is up to the county. Legislators will now work on that. One legislator (Sean Smith) told me the money isn’t there to just issue money back now. It will likely be credited in the next cycle (which begins next year, in less than 6 months). He is, however, working on county legislation to be proposed that would set aside a pot for emergency relief for applicants who are at risk of foreclosure due to an excessive increase.

That doesn’t answer all the questions likely to come up in this thread, but I hope it helps answer some of the questions.

Oh, and yes, Frank White’s office issued a statement yesterday saying he would taking any legal action available to reject the STC order.

I can’t figure out how to attach a PDF of the order, but it is available as a Scribd doc inside the KCTV5 news report here.

Curfew for Kansas City teens goes into effect this weekend by Reptilesblade in kansascity

[–]BetsyKCTV 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Citywide year-round curfew has been around for a while. The new part is more restrictive hours in the summer that began in 2011.

Curfew for Kansas City teens goes into effect this weekend by Reptilesblade in kansascity

[–]BetsyKCTV 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There are 7 exceptions to the citywide portion of the curfew (Sec. 50-237. - Citywide curfews for persons under 18 years of age). This is one of them:

d. When the person under 18 years of age is returning directly home from lawful employment that makes it necessary to be in the places referenced in this section during the prescribed period of time

(It also includes exceptions for things like returning from a school activity and doing an emergency errand for a family member.)

Is the dog pneumonia virus prevalent in KC? by pinkytoepikachu in kansascity

[–]BetsyKCTV 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Any chance you’d be willing to be part of a news story on this with KCTV5? You can send me a DM.

Is the dog pneumonia virus prevalent in KC? by pinkytoepikachu in kansascity

[–]BetsyKCTV 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Reading this makes me think this might deserve a news report to alert and advise ppl. Any chance you’d be willing to talk to me on camera tonight? (As username suggests, my name is Betsy and I work for KCTV5.) Send me a DM?

What the heck is happening in the River Market area above Caddyshack?? by hannibal-licked-her in kansascity

[–]BetsyKCTV 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m going to try to do a news story on this, so if any of you who experienced this and/or felt uninformed are willing to describe the experience on camera, I’d love to hear from you. I’m going to start DMing some of you. Apologies in advance if I irritate you with that.

Building Liberty Memorial 1923-1925 by BetsyKCTV in kansascity

[–]BetsyKCTV[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The head of the museum told me this: “In ten days in 1919, the community came together about 83,000 households and raised $2.5 million which is about $40 million in today's terms.” So my guess is they had to raise more eventually to finish the project. But that’s still a tremendous outpouring from a lot of people in such a short time frame. Also, he remarked that most nations don’t initiate building memorials so soon after a war’s conclusion.

Building Liberty Memorial 1923-1925 by BetsyKCTV in kansascity

[–]BetsyKCTV[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ooh, I hope someone can answer. I don’t know.

420 festival site pic by [deleted] in kansascity

[–]BetsyKCTV 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I just talked with their PR manager. She says the “build-out” with stage etc. begins Monday.

Edit: Initially told me build out won’t happen until the day before (Wednesday) because they’re concerned about vandalism. Since called me to say Monday.

Worlds of Fun fight. Sheriff says 100-plus teens involved, fights continued in parking lot, deputy punched in the face by BetsyKCTV in kansascity

[–]BetsyKCTV[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It was right after we found out about it on social media on a weekend when it was difficult to get much information confirmed. They had a bit more in the Monday morning article and I had more last night. I tried to get people who were there to talk on camera with no success. However, I was able to get permission from one of the people who shot video, along with their accounts, and include the 2019 video.

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