Speakers' Bureau

Sponsoring speakers at neighborhood meetings provides information and encourages residents to participate in neighborhood events. The Neighborhood Conservation Program Speaker's Bureau is a resource list of potential speakers and topics for neighborhood meetings.

Animals and Pets:

• Animal Control, 913/895-6300
• Wayside Waifs, 816/761-8151
• Humane Society, 913/596-1000

Construction/Home Improvement:

• Building Safety Division
• Replacement Windows and Energy Efficiency: Tiffany Akers, 913/385-1300 or 913/832-5944
• Workshops about real estate issues, including purchasing, building or maintaining homes: Keith Worrel, 913/780-9663

Councilmembers

County Commissioners

Downtown Overland Park:

• Charlene May & Associates - Charlene May, 913/381-3231
• Crossroads Counseling - Patti Peterson, 913/381-1048
• Downtown OP Partnership, 913/642-2222
• Edward Jones Investments - Ginger Kenney, 913/385-3630
• Gil Rumsey's Gallery - Gil Rumsey, 913/341-0128
• UMB Bank - Monty Spradling, 913/967-6511
• The Complete Traveler - Jerry Buckley, 913/648-1560

Family and Community:

• Family and Community Education Group & Johnson County Extension - Family and Consumer Sciences, 913/764-6300
  Be a Winner: Avoid Consumer Fraud; Creating a User-Friendly Home; The Living Will; The Second Half of Life: A Home to Live In; Privacy in the Information Age
• Overland Park Historical Society, 913/888-0144
  
• SafeHome, 913/432-9300
  
• YMCA - Erica Gering, 913/642-6800

Financial Planning:

• The Equitable, 913/345-2800
• Society for Financial Awareness - Albert St. Pierre, 913/696-9965

Grants and Loans:

• CDBG, HOME and Home Improvement Loans
  Florence Erickson, 913/895-6212

Police/Fire/Emergency:

• Request a guest speaker from the Police Dept. online
• Canine Unit, 913/895-6339
• Community Oriented Policing, 913/895-6275
• Crime Prevention, 913/895-6334
• DARE Unit, 913/895-6336
• MED-ACT, 913/715-1950
• Overland Park Fire Department, 913/888-6066
• School Resource Officers, 913/895-6332 or 6337
• Johnson County Emergency Management and Homeland Security: 913/715-1002

Property Maintenance/Landscaping:

• Master Gardener, 913/764-6306
  Home gardening, Landscaping, Horticulture
  Lawn care, House plants, Landscape lighting
• Heartland Tree Alliance, 816/561-1087
  Proper tree species, planting and care
• Community Services, 913/895-6270
  City property maintenance ordinances