Putting “NO” back into “Olathe” equals “NOlathe”

Admittedly we are a few days early in providing this information, but with the next Olathe City Council Meeting scheduled in less than 24 hours to discuss their voter approved 30% tax increase, we feel compelled to share what we can prove as factual.

August 6, 2013 Olathe City Council publically discusses this proposed tax increase during a total of 5 min and 20 sec (we apologize for both the quality of video and audio, we work with and are thankful for what we can access): 

The Agenda  http://www.olatheks.org/Council/Agenda/2013-08-06  refers to item Sales+Tax+Election+for+Street+Preservation+CAI which states:

“Shall the City of Olathe, Kansas, pursuant to the provisions of K.S.A. 12-187, be authorized to levy a three-eighths of one percent (.375%) special purpose citywide retailers’ sales tax within the City of Olathe, Kansas; such additional tax, if approved by a majority of the electors voting thereon, to take effect on April 1, 2014, or as soon thereafter as permitted by law,  and to end ten years after its commencement on March 31, 2024; the revenue from the additional tax to be used for the sole purpose of financing in whole or in part with any other funds, the cost of repairing, rebuilding and rehabilitating streets in the City of Olathe (the “Street Preservation Program”); such program shall include the repair, reconstruction and rehabilitation of street pavement, curb and gutters, sidewalks and such other work as is necessary to maintain, repair and renew city streets; and be in addition to the one and one-eighth percent (1.125%) citywide retailers’ sales tax currently levied within the City?”

Do you see anything about adding bike paths?

After the lawful vote, this approved Ordinance went to the JoCo Election Office 13-32

“Shall the City of Olathe Kansas, pursuant to the provisions of K.S.A. 12-187, be authorized to levy a three-eighths of one percent (.375%) special purpose citywide retailers’ sales tax within the City of Olathe, Kansas; such additional tax, if approved by a majority of the electors voting thereon, to take effect on April I, 2014, or as soon thereafter as permitted by law, and to end ten years after its commencement on March 31, 2024; the revenue from the additional tax be used for the sole purpose of financing, in whole or in part with any other funds, the cost of repairing, rebuilding, rehabilitating, upgrading and improving streets in the City of Olathe (the ”Street Maintenance Program”); such program shall include the repair, reconstruction and rehabilitation of street pavement, curb and gutters, sidewalks and such other work as is necessary to maintain, repair, renew, upgrade and improve city streets; and be in addition to the one and oneeighth percent (1.125.%) citywide retailers’ sales tax currently levied within the City?”

As previously posted http://nolathe.net/2013/11/09/truth-in-political-advertising-long-gone/ there are two different wordings.

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Furthermore the City of Olathe website discribed the ballot as-

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While the Johnson County Election Office described it as

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Again, the change of two words makes a major difference.

NOlathe (NO back into Olathe equals NOlathe) has placed several Kansas Open Record Act (KORA) requests to discover the following from the City of Olathe.  Resulting in many fact disclosures  Dunwoody

We now know that during an unrecorded meeting August 5 (day before the vote) changes in the wording was discussed.  We now know that pressure from Council members Vogt and Randall changed the language the day of August 6 to include “bike paths”.

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We now know the actual Ordinance was not read in public view prior to the vote.  We believe the Council members did in fact vote on an Ordinance that was not made public prior to, during but only after their vote.  Fast foreward two months just prior to the Election.  The City of Olathe put bike paths paid through increased taxes on the ballot without telling the electorate.

City of Olathe encouraged the electorate to go here:

http://www.olatheks.org/News/2013/OctoberReleases

and here:

http://www.olatheks.org/StreetSalesTax

Why?:

One needs to look no further than:  http://marc.org/About-MARC/General-Information/Board-of-Directors.aspx

MARC Transportation  goals:  http://marc.org/Transportation/Special-Projects/Regional-Initiatives/Complete-Streets

Who?:

MARC Chair Marge Vogt:  Olathe City Council

MARC Second Vice Chair Ed Peterson:  JoCo Commissioner (running for JoCo Commision Chair 2014)

Some in the media say NOlathe wears a “tin hat”.   You look, you decide please.  Before it’s too late.

Agenda 21 (United Nations) is alive and well in your back yard.

This will be updated once The City of Olathe completes KORA requests yet unanswered and following The Councils Meeting scheduled Noverember 19, 2013 to discuss this topic.

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