Category: UG News

The Mayor’s Committee on Government Efficiency will meet at 5 p.m. Tuesday, April 26, in the fifth floor conference room, City Hall, 701 N. 7th St., Kansas City, Kansas.

The special UG committee includes a listening session with each participant allowed to speak for two minutes to tell about themselves and why they are interested in serving on the committee, according to information from the UG.

Each listening session was limited to 25 participants to keep the meetings to one hour.

Volunteers who signed up for the committee have been notified about the listening sessions.

Other listening sessions for this committee are at 5 p.m. Wednesday, April 27, and 11:30 a.m. Friday, April 29.

The meeting also will be on Zoom. The Zoom address is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87801895790.

For more information, see https://www.wycokck.org/Engage-With-Us/Calendar-of-Events/Government-Efficiency.

The April 28 tax sale has been postponed, according to a Unified Government announcement today.

The upcoming tax sale will be rescheduled when all systems are back online, a UG news release stated Monday.

The UG was hit by a cybersecurity attack over the Easter weekend, and out of an abundance of caution, is reviewing all data before moving forward with rescheduling the sale, according to the announcement.

In the news release, the UG stated that the combined tax sale also would include properties from tax sale 349, the October 2021 and January 2022 sales postponed by the UG Commission during a special session last year.

The tax sales are held to collect unpaid taxes. The UG usually holds three public auctions per year to sell property that is eligible for the tax sale, according to the UG’s news release.

Tax sale eligible properties are those that have delinquent taxes for at least three years for homestead properties, two years for commercial properties and one year for vacant and aandoned properties.

The UG’s Department of Delinquent Real Estate is expected to announce the rescheduled date in the coming days.

Property owners who have delinquent taxes are encouraged to contact the Unified Government at 913-573-2817 or by email at [email protected] as soon as possible to help prevent their property from going to a tax sale.

This weekend the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, was subject to a cybersecurity attack to its data centers, a UG spokesman stated.

The Unified Government has been working diligently to restore services and data access, a UG news release stated.

Community members may visit the UG’s website at wycokck.org or call 3-1-1 for updates on services that have been affected.

According to the UG spokesman, this is a fluid situation with an ongoing assessment of the damage underway.

“We are actively working with the US Department of Homeland Security, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Mid-America Regional Council cybersecurity task force to determine what data, if any, may have been compromised,” the UG news release stated.

The UG anticipated that some services could be affected, the spokesman stated.

The UG website is still accessible, and updates will be provided as they are available, according to the spokesman.

• Information from the UG