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Henry McClure 785.383.9994  Sent from my T-Mobile 5G Device Get Outlook for Android From: Valley Park <valleyparkniatopeka@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, 16 September 2026 21:16:32 To: Zaynah Afada <zafada@topeka.org>; Braxton Copley <bcopley@topeka.org>; Spencer Duncan <sduncan@topeka.org> Cc: City Manager <citymanager@topeka.org> Subject: Business entrance/exit issue for ADA Transportation   Hi Spencer, Braxton, and Zaynah,   It sounded like we lost the whole underbelly of our ADA modified van the last time we left the Tuptim Thai restaurant due the slope of the entrance/exit not being what it should be!  This issue, I predict, is an engineering matter since city street projects often include replacements of business and residential entrances/exits.  I am not sure a warning sign would help as the parking lot can be a little congestive...

Yes. There is a real literature on this, and the short version is: **generous housing and homeless services can help the people who receive them and still fail—or even worsen—the city’s overall problem.** The “magnet” story is only one piece. The more common backfire is a **stock-and-flow problem**: people keep falling into homelessness faster than expensive programs can house them, while Housing First-style units with no treatment requirements can become long-term, high-cost holding pens rather than exits. The evidence is mixed by *who* is moving and *what* is being offered. It is not a myth, and it is not a simple “they all hitchhiked here for free apartments” cartoon either. ## What the studies actually show **1. Families respond to generosity. Single adults, much less so.**   Economist Igor Popov’s work using federal Continuum of Care grant formulas (an old, quasi-random funding rule) is the cleanest U.S. evidence. Extra homeless-assistance money: ...

What is the City/County/JEDO policy about this spending  Kansas law will void a city or county contract in defined situations. It does not say that every time a contractor spends a dollar wrong, the whole agreement disappears by itself. The distinction matters. When Kansas law actually says “void” The rule is aimed at the government’s power to make the contract , not at every later mistake in performance. Kansas courts repeat the same points: A city or county cannot bind itself beyond its powers. A contract it had  no power to make  is ultra vires, void, and unenforceable. No further validity analysis is required. Anyone who contracts with a municipality is bound, at that party’s peril, to know the municipality’s authority. Contracts a municipality is not legally permitted to enter  cannot be ratified . Performance by the contractor, money spent in reliance, and benefits received by the city do not estop the government from saying the contract...

  Kansas law will void a city or county contract in defined situations. It does not say that every time a contractor spends a dollar wrong, the whole agreement disappears by itself. The distinction matters. When Kansas law actually says “void” The rule is aimed at the government’s power to make the contract , not at every later mistake in performance. Kansas courts repeat the same points: A city or county cannot bind itself beyond its powers. A contract it had no power to make is ultra vires, void, and unenforceable. No further validity analysis is required. Anyone who contracts with a municipality is bound, at that party’s peril, to know the municipality’s authority. Contracts a municipality is not legally permitted to enter cannot be ratified . Performance by the contractor, money spent in reliance, and benefits received by the city do not estop the government from saying the contract was void. Cash-basis law, K.S.A. 10-1119: any contract between a municipal governing b...