President's Message
Dear Kansas City Appraisal Institute members,
Thank you for the opportunity to serve as your Chapter President for the coming year. The chapter has had good leadership the last several who I’ve learned much from. This tradition, plus opportunities to interact with national leadership at LDAC and Regional events has prepared me to serve.
I plan to carry on this tradition by welcoming returning members and directors plus new directors Jason Bitter, MAI and Brittany Fotz, associate member, to the board for the first of their 3 year terms.
President, Brian McHenry, MAI
Vice President - Greg Becker, MAI
Treasurer - Tyler Siegworth, MAI
Secretary - Jacob Davis
Immediate Past President - Andrew Baker, MAI
Director - Julie Grantham, MAI, AI-GRS (one year remaining on her 3-year term)
Director - Jason Bitter, MAI, (this will be a new 3-year term)
Director - Brittany Foltz (this will be a new 3-year term)
Susan Smith, MAI, AI-GRS, CCIM has been working hard to educate students about our profession with UMKC and the Bloch School of Business.
We had several other programs last year including two Residential Roundtables facilitated by Patrick Brown, SRA. We look forward to continuing all these in 2025.
National has instructed us to staff a Legislative Affairs Committee. This position has an extremely low time requirement but needs to be filled. National is continuing efforts with Congress to streamline state licensing. They are also trying to get state level statute of limitations passed as we currently have unlimited time liability.
It is no surprise that membership in the profession in general and the Appraisal Institute in particular has been steadily declining since the Recession. I and the rest of the board hope that through education offerings, programs, and service opportunities we can strengthen and grow our chapter. If anyone wants to serve or has ideas for education and/or program offerings, feel free to reach out.
Sincerely,
Brian McHenry, MAI
Thank you for the opportunity to serve as your Chapter President for the coming year. The chapter has had good leadership the last several who I’ve learned much from. This tradition, plus opportunities to interact with national leadership at LDAC and Regional events has prepared me to serve.
I plan to carry on this tradition by welcoming returning members and directors plus new directors Jason Bitter, MAI and Brittany Fotz, associate member, to the board for the first of their 3 year terms.
President, Brian McHenry, MAI
Vice President - Greg Becker, MAI
Treasurer - Tyler Siegworth, MAI
Secretary - Jacob Davis
Immediate Past President - Andrew Baker, MAI
Director - Julie Grantham, MAI, AI-GRS (one year remaining on her 3-year term)
Director - Jason Bitter, MAI, (this will be a new 3-year term)
Director - Brittany Foltz (this will be a new 3-year term)
EDUCATION
Our membership is largely comprised of designated members with over 70% MAI’s and 30% SRA’s. There has been a clear preferential trend toward qualifying education via the online synchronous offerings provided by National so the Board has decided we will largely focus on homegrown or member developed continuing education offerings. Our recent one-day seminar, Valuing Fractional Interests by Dennis Webb, MAI, was well received with 17 attendee’s. We will be reaching out to Peter Christianson for a possible repeat of last year’s Appraisal Law in the Real World due to interest.Susan Smith, MAI, AI-GRS, CCIM has been working hard to educate students about our profession with UMKC and the Bloch School of Business.
PROGRAMS
We will continue the tradition of speaker programs. Last year ended with National President Sandy Adomatis, SRA and acting CEO John Udelhofen speaking at Jack Stack in conjunction with our Regional meetings in October. They offered little insight as to the departure of former CEO Cindy Chance due to privacy issues regarding employment, but focused mostly on organizational structure, staffing levels, and efforts to improve communication.We had several other programs last year including two Residential Roundtables facilitated by Patrick Brown, SRA. We look forward to continuing all these in 2025.
COMMITTEE’S AND CHAPTER SERVICE
Anyone interested in serving the chapter in would be welcome to join one of our several Committees. We will need volunteers for Education as Jacob Davis has currently served as chair for several years and may need to pass this along.National has instructed us to staff a Legislative Affairs Committee. This position has an extremely low time requirement but needs to be filled. National is continuing efforts with Congress to streamline state licensing. They are also trying to get state level statute of limitations passed as we currently have unlimited time liability.
It is no surprise that membership in the profession in general and the Appraisal Institute in particular has been steadily declining since the Recession. I and the rest of the board hope that through education offerings, programs, and service opportunities we can strengthen and grow our chapter. If anyone wants to serve or has ideas for education and/or program offerings, feel free to reach out.
Sincerely,
Brian McHenry, MAI