How to Attend Wednesday’s Meeting
Wednesday, January 27th, 2021 at 4pm
In person at City Hall on the 26th Floor in the Council Chamber, but we are not 100% sure if you can get in and if you do, you will need to wear a mask and social distance.
Attend Via Zoom
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84530222968
We are asking everyone who can, to log in at 4pm at at least listen in to show your opposition to this ordinance.
How to Send Written Testimony
We should also email in our testimony whether we speak or not.
If you are speaking you can put a bit more information into your written testimony.
If you are not speaking, this is the best way to voice your opposition.
It should be different than exactly what you emailed in through the Muster Automated System.
Personalize it if you can.
It seems that emails from the Muster System have been added to public testimony as well.
Send written testimony to publictestimony@kcmo.org
Make your Subject Line Special Committee On Housing Ordinance No.210055
How to Register to Speak
If you have attended an in person Committee or City Council meeting they have a small form you fill out to request to speak. The person running the meeting decides who gets to speak and for how long. With testifying on Zoom, they have an online form.
We cannot seem to copy and paste a link here to the form to request to speak.
We can give you the link to the city calendar: http://cityclerk.kcmo.org/LiveWeb/Meetings/UpcomingMeetings.aspx
Once on the page with the list of meetings, look for the one on the 27th called “Special Committee on Housing Policy” look to the right in the Agenda Column for the icon that looks like a computer screen and click. This will open the agenda and in the upper left hand corner of the agenda is a blue Witness Request. Click to get the form and to fill it out.
Make your issue “Special Committee On Housing Ordinance No.210055”
Tips for Speaking – 2 Minutes Max
Keep these tips in mind from Jennifer Langston-Justus
1. Stick to 3 Strong and Powerful Facts
2. Stay under 1 Minute
3. Look at the Legislators – In Person or at the Camera On Zoom
4. Practice so you can speak and not read off a piece of paper.
Three Points to get across
1. The ordinance would actually hurt the very people they are trying to help by forcing housing providers to make screening standards even tougher and by driving a few more providers out of business so fewer rentals creating higher rents.
2. They are encouraging discrimination against citizens who have paid their rent and were not evicted.
3. A better solution would be the High-Risk Rental Guarantee Program proposed by KC Regional Housing Alliance.
And if you can personalize just a bit, with why you invest or how you have been or will be affected. And if you have sold units, have not added units, have taken investing dollars to other cities, or are planning to, they need to hear this as well.