A Johnson County resident in public comment on May 29 asked the board to disclose records and reconciliations tied to past public safety sales‑tax ballot propositions and to correct statutory citations he previously provided.

For the record, Ben Holman, a Westwood Hills resident, told commissioners he was correcting earlier remarks about the county's public safety sales tax ballot propositions and cited a Kansas statute reference. "My comments of May 8 and May 22 concerning your illegal sales tax ballot proposition, I mistakenly omitted subsection (b) when referencing K.S.A. 12‑1‑187 citations," Holman said. He told the clerk he provided corrected copies attached to his original submissions and said the corrected citations did not change his earlier analysis.

Holman asked for a Kansas Open Records Act (KORA) request for copies of: (1) the resolutions and propositions for the public safety project placed on the Nov. 8, 2016 general election ballot and prior propositions (1994 and Feb. 2008, as referenced by the speaker); (2) reconciliations and accounting of funds received and disbursed for the courthouse project account; and (3) accounting of county general revenue sources and annual budgets and reports for the years 2017 through 2025, inclusive. He also said an agenda packet item for a September meeting adopting a quarter‑cent retailer sales tax (identified in his remarks as resolution 068‑07 adopted in 2008) was missing from the county website.

Holman told the board he had previously presented analyses on May 8 and May 22 and "reaffirm and stand behind those analyses." He did not identify a county staff response during the meeting and no board action or response to the records request was recorded during the May 29 session.

Why it matters: the request seeks the underlying records and financial reconciliations for prior sales‑tax ballot measures and county budgeting that could clarify past ballot language, fund uses and accounting for the courthouse project. The county publicly posts many meeting materials online; Holman said he could not find the referenced packet item for a prior resolution.

The matter was presented during the board's public comment period and was not an agenda item. The speaker's references to statutes and to KORA were those he cited in his remarks; the county did not announce any immediate action or response at the May 29 meeting.