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.
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What a joke!….Does any one of those cities get over 3 million people?
Yea the booming metropolis Camp Verde! The same Camp Verde that said no to Walmart and home Depot
And guess who got that, Cottonwood who has about 7,000 more people than Sedona without the tourism, and their budget is higher than Sedona!
I dont want my city crippled!
100 % agree!!! The City of Sedona and the Sedona City Council have been totally irresponsible with the City’s financial resources, because they “have money coming out their ears” from the sales and bed taxes. Rather than cut the sales tax rate to benefit the local Sedona public, the Council continues the high sales tax rate to “soak” the tourists. They don’t seem to understand that locals pay the same high sales tax rate that the City is using to “soak” the tourists. They think that we locals should be OK with that because we don’t pay local property taxes – NOT!!! Just drive by the new unnecessary parking garage with its sign out front with a budget amount of about $17+ million – when the real cost is closer to $30 million. The City is also consciously lying to everyone reading the sign about what it is really spending, Try asking the city what the loss is on the freebie bus transportation around the City – they won’t tell you or will lie to you. It’s time for a change and forcing fiscal responsibility through not voting for home rule is a good first step.
Hey Mr Bruce, how much are you paying the city in property taxes? What? Nada you say? Think that trumps the little extra you pay to enjoy the services the city provides sans a $4-$5,000+ property tax. Guess you would like to pay the city the a mega property tax over the minor tourist tax you currently pay. That’s today’s political logic I guess?