Sedona.Biz – The Voice of Sedona and The Verde ValleySedona.Biz – The Voice of Sedona and The Verde Valley
    Sedona.Biz – The Voice of Sedona and The Verde Valley Sedona.Biz – The Voice of Sedona and The Verde Valley
    • Home
    • Sedona News
    • Business Profiles
    • Opinion
    • Mind & Body
    • Arts
    • Elections
    • Gift Shop
    • Contact
    • Advertise
    Sedona.Biz – The Voice of Sedona and The Verde ValleySedona.Biz – The Voice of Sedona and The Verde Valley
    Home » Letter to The Editor: $2.5 million annually allocated to Sedona Chamber of Commerce
    Letter to The Editor

    Letter to The Editor: $2.5 million annually allocated to
    Sedona Chamber of Commerce

    July 4, 2018No Comments
    Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Email Reddit WhatsApp
    Share
    Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Email Reddit WhatsApp

    logo_lettereditorBy Sherry Twamley, Verde Village Resident
    (July 4, 2018)

    The City of Sedona’s budget includes about $2.5 million annually that is allocated to the Sedona Chamber of Commerce — an “outside agency”. Tens of thousands more dollars are paid out in other contracts to non-city organizations which provide a host of services. Most of these sums, however, appears to be doled out through political lobbying and patronage to certain favored organizations without competitive grants (awarded after judging by a panel of unbiased city staff members and after letting the public weigh in at a public hearing).

    This is why a new unbiased Sedona city mayor and council members are desperately needed to develop an accountable and effective criteria (formula) for each contract made to fund outside agencies — to ensure they’re awarded in a fair, transparent and accountable fashion. City leaders must recognize that certain programs or services are more necessary or important than others to the city and to the taxpayers they serve. Awards to outside nonprofits should be based on competitive proposals by organizations who can demonstrate effectiveness and positive outcomes, and provide core services the city needs most as opposed to the status quo of entitlement.

    Sedona Gift Shop

    To manage gridlock: It is time the city take a proactive approach to studying and adopting the most advanced and cost effective, flexible, expandable and proven traffic management technologies available on the market worldwide today — including cashless (wireless) toll booths — to manage Sedona’s traffic flow and to help mitigate growing air pollution caused by idling vehicles. It just makes sense that if non-residents had to pay tolls to use roads during peak traffic hours — not residents or workers — the toll revenue could be used to fund road maintenance, road improvements, and to expand public transportation, bike trails and build pedestrian bridges to improve the quality of life for both residents and visitors.

    Healing Paws

    This is an advertisement

    Comments are closed.


    Analyzing City’s Legal Right to
    Ban OHVs on Public Roads

    By Tommy Acosta
    Mea Culpa! Mea Culpa! Mea Maxima Culpa! I screwed up. Blew it. Totally made a fool of myself. Missed the boat. I am talking about my editorial on the OHV fight, No Legal Traction on OHVs. I assumed that it was ADOT that would make a decision on whether the city could legally ban off road vehicles from our public roads like S.R. 89A and S.R. 179. Man was I off. ADOT has nothing to do with allowing or disallowing the city to do so. ADOT’s response to me when I asked them to clarify their position, was curt and to the point. “ADOT designs, builds and maintains the state highway system,” I was told. “It is not our place to offer an opinion on how state law might apply in this matter.” It was a totally “duh” moment for me when I realized that that the decision or judgement on the OHV ordinance, would involve the state and not ADOT. Chagrinned I stand. The crux of the matter then is whether the city can effectively use a number of standing state laws that can be interpreted to determine whether the city can legally ban the vehicles or not. Read more→
    Recent Comments
    • JB on Mayor & Council Deserve Kudos For Chamber Oversight
    • Richard Kepple on Analyzing City’s Legal Right to Ban OHVs on Public Roads
    • Mary on Analyzing City’s Legal Right to Ban OHVs on Public Roads
    • JB on DORR Hosts Talk on Gun Violence Prevention
    • Sheila Jackman on Remembering Sedona Sculptor John Soderberg: A Tribute to a Creative Genius
    Categories
    © 2023 All rights reserved. Sedona.biz.

    Type above and press Enter to search. Press Esc to cancel.