The City of Sedona took one on the chin with the courts demanding the city pay the Save Sedona Committee $33,872.50, plus $320.29 for its legal costs defending itself against the city’s lawsuit attempting to prevent an initiative from appearing on the ballot for this coming election.
Below is a copy of the court’s Summary Judgement:
According to Bill Noonan, Save Sedona Committee member:
The City Must Pay the Legal Fees of Prop 403. The City sued Prop 403 and lost. Now the judge has told the City it must pay $33,872.50 in legal fees to the attorneys who defended Prop 403 against the City’s baseless litigation. These fees are on top of the tens of thousands of dollars the City already wasted suing the initiative.
The City sued to stop the residents from lawfully voting on Prop 403, which reveals the City’s disrespect for the people they are supposed to represent and suggests hidden agendas.
VOTE YES on Prop 403 to preserve Sedona’s Cultural Park as a non-residential city park. It will keep the entire park open for hiking, biking, and other recreational and cultural activities such as film festivals. It does not require operation of an amphitheater.
VOTE YES on PROP 403 to preserve the natural beauty of this last great scenic open space in the city, both for us and future generations.
VOTE YES ON PROP 403 to stop traffic congestion that will be caused by continued residential overdevelopment in West Sedona.
VOTE YES ON PROP 403 to stop the City from ignoring Sedona residents who ranked housing at the Cultural Park a low priority in the April 2026 Sedona survey of registered voters.
VOTE YES ON PROP 403 to protect our natural environment and way of life from those who would ruin it.
VOTE YES on PROP 403 to reject the political operatives who falsely claim Prop 403 would increase traffic. Such distortions suggest suspicious motives. The person behind those “no to more traffic” signs is the same political operative who urged the City to waste City funds to sue PROP 403.
VOTE YES on PROP 403 to join your neighbors in protecting the natural beauty and scenic wonders of Sedona’s Cultural Park. Once it is lost it can never be regained.
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This is what happens when the City of Sedona hires an incompetent City Attorney and tries to thwart the will of the voters in the City of Sedona. The City is not supposed to take partisan positions against the will of City voters who present legal and valid requests for action and a competent City Attorney is supposed to advise them of that.