Blue Springs, Mo. ? At least a few leaders of this Kansas City suburb say the mayor should be dismissed from office because he fell behind on tax payments for four pieces of property.

Blue Springs Mayor Steve Steiner paid taxes for two of the properties Monday and the other two Wednesday, according to records at the county’s Department of Collections. The payments, which ranged from $1,466 to $1,708, were due by Dec. 31.

“What I say to that is they are all taken care of,” Steiner said.

Blue Springs gets part of the property taxes, and its charter, approved in 1994, bars the mayor from being delinquent in paying city taxes or fees. The charter also says the mayor must forfeit the position if “at any time during the term of office, the mayor lacks any qualifications prescribed by this charter or by law” or if “the mayor violates any prohibition of this charter.”

Joe Flynn, a Planning Commission member who led the group that wrote the charter, said it didn’t matter if the mayor had eventually paid his delinquent taxes.

“As far as I know, the mayor should forfeit his office,” said Flynn, whom Steiner once threatened to remove from the commission. “The question is if the City Council is going to enforce the city charter.”

City councilman Ron Fowler also said he supported removal. “He has the same duty as the rest of us to enforce the charter,” Fowler said.