Dear Mr. Munson, Formal Request for Your Resignation from the Metropolitan Topeka Airport Authority

Subject: Formal Request for Your Resignation from the Metropolitan Topeka Airport Authority

Board Due to Clear Conflict of Interest

Dear Mr. Munson,

I am writing to you as a concerned citizen and taxpayer of Shawnee County regarding your continued service on the Metropolitan Topeka Airport Authority (MTAA) Board of Directors.

Public records on the MTAA website (mtaa-topeka.org) confirm that Central National Bank (CNB) remains an authorized depository for MTAA funds. Recent board packets and financial reports list CNB alongside other institutions for deposits and CD investments. As Executive Vice President and General Counsel at Central National Bank — and with your sister serving as President/CEO — you have a direct personal and professional financial interest in the placement and management of these public funds.

MTAA maintains a formal Conflict of Interest Policy, yet the ongoing relationship between the Authority and the bank that employs you creates an inherent and unavoidable conflict. This is not merely theoretical. As a banker, you are in a position where decisions involving MTAA’s banking relationships, rates, collateral, or any potential claims or settlements could reasonably appear to influence your judgment — especially if MTAA ever needed to pursue a significant financial settlement or action that might affect funds held at CNB. The appearance of impropriety is obvious to any reasonable observer and undermines public trust in the board’s stewardship of taxpayer-supported airport authority resources.

If you do not personally recognize this as a problem, that itself is further evidence of why the current appointment process is flawed. MTAA board members are appointed — not elected — through a system heavily influenced by the Greater Topeka Partnership, the Chamber of Commerce, Go Topeka, and the same narrow circle of business and civic leaders who rotate through these roles. This structure allows the very entities driving economic development policy to effectively control oversight of public assets like the airport, without direct accountability to the citizens who fund them.

For the sake of transparency, good governance, and restoring confidence in the MTAA, I respectfully request that you resign from the Board of Directors immediately. Your resignation would eliminate the conflict and demonstrate a commitment to putting the public interest above personal or institutional ties.

I would appreciate a written response to this request within 14 days. I am also sharing this communication with the MTAA Board Chair, the full board, Shawnee County Commissioner Kevin Cook, Topeka Mayor Spencer Duncan, and other interested citizens so that this matter becomes part of the public record.

Thank you for your public service. I hope you will choose to do the right thing for the citizens of Topeka and Shawnee County.

Henry McClure 

MCRE, LLC

3625 SW 29^th Street

Topeka KS 66614

785.383.9994