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Find out about ways to save significant money on your home or business heating & cooling bills and major changes coming in city trash collection at the monthly SKCA meeting at 6 p.m. Monday, April 8, in the front building of the South Patrol Police Campus, 9701 Marion Park Dr.

Also enjoy tasty treats including mini vegan tacos from Urban Café, 5500 Troost, which is scheduled to open by mid-May, plus lemonade, coffee and water.
 
David Albrecht of the Metropolitan Energy Center will explain current energy efficiency programs that provide utility rebates for both homeowners and businesses. 
These range from residential programs to assist families with improvements such as better insulation, air sealing and improved windows to large-scale investments in commercial boilers and new HVAC systems for businesses.
Albrecht said the goal of the residential energy efficiency programs is to help homeowners save money while improving indoor air quality and allowing them to live more comfortably.

The city recently decided to begin using city crews throughout the city to pick up trash and recyclables curbside starting in May of 2020, replacing private contractors that now provide the service in northern and southern parts of the city.
This will provide an opportunity for possible service improvements long sought by many neighborhood leaders such as returning to regularly scheduled monthly bulky item pickups and furnishing wheeled trash carts to residents.
Also city trash trucks could be equipped to attach snow plows that could do a much better job of clearing residential streets of snow and ice than the smaller and lighter plows attached to pickup trucks now used by some private contractors.
Michael Shaw, assistant to the director of the Neighborhoods & Housing Services Department who is in charge of city trash service, will discuss plans for the transition and hoped for service improvements.
Although the transition is still about a year away, now is the time for residents to let the city know what possible improvements are most important to them so such improvements hopefully can be quickly implemented.
Also meet Swana Lansdown, SKCA codes advocate and first SKCA employee. 
Under SKCA’s contract with the city, she will notify residents/owners of residential property in south Kansas City (starting in zip codes 64114 & 64131) about property maintenance/nuisance violations that have been reported to the city and give them a grace period to correct any reported violations before the city takes legal enforcement actions.
At the end of the grace periods, she will inspect the properties and either notify the city the violations have been corrected so the cases can be closed or refer the complaints back to the city for legal enforcement actions if they haven’t been.
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Upcoming events

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Women of Color
Leadership Conference

Keynote speaker:
Rosa Clemente
Leading Afro-Latinx identity scholar and activist
Green Party 2008 vice-presidential candidate

Friday, June 7, 2019
UMKC Student Union
8 a.m.

More information

The SKCA meets each month on the second Monday at 6:00 pm at the South Patrol Police Station unless otherwise noted in email notices.

Next SKCA General Meeting:
SKCA General Meeting on Monday, May 13th at 6:00 pm at South Patrol Station.
If you have events for our community calendar, please share for display on our SKCA website calendar and social media channels. 
Email SKCA my event

SKCA Board Members:
John Sharp, President
Nicole Williams, Vice-President
Steve Quinlin, Secretary
Eslun Tucker, Treasurer

Ken Bacchus
Rodney Bland
Carri Ellis
Geoff Gerling
Tracey Hawkins
Cathy Knight-Kotzias
Greg Lever
Sherwood Smith
Deborah Washam

SKCA COMMITTEES:

Please inquire directly if you want to be added to the meeting notices list.

Government Affairs

John Sharp, Chair.
jsharp122@hotmail.com.

 

Neighborhoods

Sherwood Smith, Chair.
sherwoodsmith@iaff42.org.

Education:

Seeking a Co-Chair

NEW-Young Achievers Committee:
Carri Ellis & Deborah Washam, Co-Chairs
elliscarekc@gmail.com
 dwcece.dw@gmail.com

 

Membership

Greg Lever, Chair.
glever1960@gmail.com.

 

Communications & Outreach




Economic Development

Tracey Hawkins
safetyandsecuritysource@gmail.com

Thank you for your support! 

John Sharp
South Kansas City Alliance, President
jsharp122@hotmail.com


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