Tommy Acosta

Sedona AZ (February 16, 2009) – Talk about a bad week for crashes. Never mind the ongoing collapse of the world financial systems and the epidemic of businesses crashing in and around Sedona.

How about two one-ton satellites smashing into each other over the North Pole, spreading tens of thousands of inch-wide particles that at the speed they travel at will take out just about every satellite up there over time?

Wow! What will that do to our telecommunications network and our ability to spy on anything bigger than a pack of cigarettes on the planet’s surface? Our enemies will no longer have to hide in the sand to avoid detection.

Oh. And then there is the crash of two nuclear submarines somewhere in the ocean. It’s a big ocean out there and the odds of two submarines crashing have to be infinitesimal.

Maybe it’s another sign of the times — of the planet beginning to unravel psychologically.

Let’s see…freak tornadoes, volcanoes erupting, planes crashing every other week!

Then there is the Sedona City Council war. Who will win the fight?

Now there is the issue of homeowners in the Chapel area devastated by the economy who might have to pay tens of thousands of dollars to hook up to a sewer system many claim they don’t need.

While every one is debating the fairness and legality of giving some homeowners exceptions on hooking up while others have already paid capacity fees, no one is looking at an extremely and very obvious solution to the mess.

Those who can’t afford the connection costs could simply pay the capacity fee right up front when due and wait until they are financially able to pay for a connection to complete the hook-up. In this way everybody is treated fairly by having to pay the capacity fee and the city gets the money for the capacity fee.

The only losers in this deal will be the contractors who will have to wait for the financially strapped to come up with the cash sometime down the road.

And there is the issue of the mayor’s advisory committees facing extinction.

Sorry, but right from jump-street it should have been very obvious that the power group in the council will vote down anything these committees come up with just because they can.

Now, a special meeting has been called for Tuesday, February 17, to squash them for good.

It could be a tricky legal thing to do so because the council voted January 27 to let them exist until March, but the city will find a way through a loophole, for sure.

What will be interesting is if the move to eliminate the committees stems from one committee member finding out things about the city’s handling of the budget that might not be quite Kosher.

That will surely come out if that particular committee is iced.

Let’s wait and see.

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