Sedona, AZ — Small-Town Sedona urges a strong NO vote on home rule, Proposition 400, on July 21. The failures of governance repeatedly demonstrated by our city council render it inadvisable to continue to give them blank checks to determine the city’s spending levels without strict voter oversight.
A no vote on home rule offers us the opportunity to revive the democratic process in Sedona and take back control of city hall by setting up a subsequent choice among the strict fiscal responsibility of the state expenditure limit; the middle ground of a permanent base adjustment, which would result in zero cuts to existing services and only in a reappraisal of the city’s highly contentious program of capital projects and environmental destruction; or annual overrides of the expenditure limit that would give us maximum control of our own tax dollars.
It is our constitutional right to determine our city’s budget, and it is long past time that we begin to exercise that right again.