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It Ain’t Over ‘Till It’s Over

Sedona, AZ – By Tommy Acosta…Sometimes I wish I didn’t have a crystal ball to view the future because the excitement of new events just isn’t there anymore. See http://www.sedona.biz/sedona-open-meeting-law0308.htm

Like I’ve been saying over and over, this fight over the lights is far from over. Now we have two more complaints filed with the Attorney General’s Office charging four council members with violating open meeting laws in order to get those lights put up on 89A. Even the city attorney has been charged.

In my Nov. 25 article in this Web site titled “Open Meeting Law Sparks Council Debate” I asked the very same questions the two new complaints pose more than a week before the new complaints were filed.

And looking into my crystal ball, we haven’t seen the last of them. Wait until someone files a lawsuit against ADOT itself. There is also the distinct possibility the Feds or the State will soon run out of cash for such projects. Then what?

The council vote where the 76 lights were approved was a classic study of council members working in tandem to move forward a mutually-agreed upon agenda.

It was way too well executed for there to have been no prior discussion by the approvers of the lights over what they intended to do.

They rolled over the opposing council members like a steamroller. The council members in the minority never stood a chance.

Even though the agenda clearly stated discussion/action on the Safety Committee recommendations, the proponents for the lights skillfully made a motion to put in the 76 lights, even though it was not on the agenda, and rammed it through.

Brilliant!

Now it is up to the city attorney to convince the Attorney General that this bit of Robert’s Rules of Order slight-of-hand was legitimate.

And as for the mayor hoping to present to ADOT alternative lighting options for 89A, I believe that too is an exercise in futility. The city doesn’t have the money to pay for more expensive lighting. Someone is already counting the money for the 76 high-sodium lights.

Now we have a former council member threatening even more recalls.

Today is drop-dead deadline day for our Dec. 11 publication.

We’ll resume our regular Web site coverage tomorrow.

Peace.

2 Comments

  1. gari says:

    It’s all so unbelievable. And to be wasting so much money in this economy is right in line with the self centered bully tactics we are forced to witness. It seems there is no court of common sense and no protection from people who are bent on destruction of their own peace and ours too.

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