Sedona AZ (May 29, 2015) – The Teen Club Scene at Sound Bites Grill in Sedona is the hottest event this summer! Every Tuesday throughout the season, an awesome teen dance party will light up the night at Sound Bites Grill. From 7:00 p.m. until 10:00 p.m., teens fifteen years and older can dance to the Verde Valley’s hottest DJ, who will create the ultimate dance experience. This dance party will be the #1 event for under 21 entertainment in the Verde Valley!
Teens can reserve part of the club with friends to celebrate special events such as birthdays, Sweet 16 parties, graduation, and college going away parties. With the lights, music, atmosphere and fun, Sound Bites is dedicated to creating a place where a teen club scene is brought to a whole new level.
In the past, the Verde Valley has not offered similar teen activities. The City of Sedona Parks and Recreation selected Sound Bites Grill to host Sedona’s Teen Dance Party 2015. An affordable menu will be provided in an alcohol-free zone with supervision provided.
For more information, call Sedona Parks and Recreation at 928-282-7098. Sound Bites is located at 101 North State Route 89A in uptown Sedona at the Hyatt Pinon Pointe Shops (on Y roundabout at SR 89A and SR 179). Let the summer fun begin!
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What abysmal fiscal management.
And is the city of Sedona paying Sounds Bites as it says: “The City of Sedona Parks and Recreation selected Sound Bites Grill to host Sedona’s Teen Dance Party 2015.” If so, this city is truly out of control. OMG! Not to be believed.
“ABYSMAL FISCAL MANAGEMENT” = @Bill Village oak creek = YES!
Have things changed? When I was a teen the last place we wanted to go was anyplace we were supposed to go.
My concern would be that Sound Bites is a bar and grill, not a teen center or privately rented room in a facility. There are plenty of spaces better able to provide for teens than a bar on the city’s dime. What if teens bring in alcohol; is the bar owner liable to prove the teens weren’t imbibing on their site? If a car accident, god forbid, occurs after leaving the bar and alcohol or drugs are involved, what lawyer will pass up the opportunity to sue the City and the bar owners? None. The idea is nice to try and entice teens out at night in a supervised location, but that’s not your job City of Sedona, it’s the parents responsibility. Cancel this. Stupid idea.
City? Get your ducks in a row. This deal with the teen center reeks of nepotism and corruption. What else is a better example of that then giving away a teen center and working a deal with a bar? You can support this arts group and support the teens in the same place.
I was first thinking that it makes no sense to pay someone to use our teen center, and then promote a ‘Private Business’ to entertain our teens. A bit of head shaking there.
So Parks and Recreations are planning to send not only our Sedona teens but the whole Verde Valley’s teens to up town, to either annoy or entice the tourists staying at the Hyatt Pinon Pointe and surrounding area. Where are these 30, 40, 50, or so cars going to park without interfering with uptown diners and those returning from dinner.
Maybe Parks and Recreations should have reserved Tuesday nights at our teen center for “The #1 event for under 21 entertainment in the Verde Valley!”, to hold their gala, and try to recoup some of the money that is going to be spent on the new air system?
The City certainly is getting entangled in Private Businesses more and more. What’s that about?
there’s a huge state of art rec/pool center in Cottonwood, let em use Lynx system & go. What’s wrong Sedona? Cottonwood not good enough for ya —— we’ve got kids. You don’t now send em to a restaurant Sedona, serve them Mock-tails and Shirley Temples & prime em for the drunk pump of Sedona oldies……………………..!!!!!!!!!!!! Rent em limos of the bus ain’t good enough.
@P.C., Sedona your idea is the perfect example. Hire a DJ and place them on the stage.
I’m in complete agreement with all comments criticizing Sedona city for this waste. If the Teen Center failed, why this? More nonsense. Shame. Money spent by Parks & Rec is out of control.
FROM Sedona City Talk: Justin Clifton, City Manager – May 15, 2015
“…My first few months will be spent listening and learning…I will do my best to visit with all key stakeholders, community agencies, and interested residents to better understand our current challenges and opportunities…Please send an email to JClifton@SedonaAZ.gov or set up an appointment by calling 204-7127 to visit with me to share your interests or concerns…Thank you for allowing me to serve as your city manager…”
@A. Suggestion
Not sure what your point is by cc us with our new city manager’s comments? His availability?
My take is that if he is gonna sit back for a few months and just listen then he is missing the mark!
My second take is that a City Manager is supposed to Jump in and take control! Isn’t that what he gets paid to do in our system?
My third take is I did witness him start taking his Control back at the last council meeting where he clearly stated He would not be forwarding His recommendations to Council business issues – Unless He decided to.
Say What?
Sometimes I’ve felt people have been hard on you but your comments about the new city manager are downright mean @Sharlett.
Suggesting he “jump in” before he has spent time listening to people is a bit hasty IMO. That he is willing to invite people and hear them out seems like a very nice thing instead of the same old, same old of just catering to the elite, self-imposed silk stocking group that’s controlling Sedona.
I thank “A Suggestion” for making it easy to contact Mr. Clifton.
I think the Sound Bites event is out of the box thinking and a super idea. this is what community is all about…. in the 1960 ies we had events like this every Saturday in Burbank ca. I cannot understand anyone not supporting this and other events for teenagers..
Steve Segner
Look what Phoenix does for the teens and this is just one program.
Welcome to Phoenix Afterschool Center (PAC)
The City of Phoenix Parks and Recreation Department’s Phoenix Afterschool Center is a fun, supportive and educational place for children ages 6 to 13 to spend the crucial afterschool hours at school sites throughout Phoenix. Our experienced recreation staff leads structured, age-appropriate activities that include:
Homework help. We provide time and assistance to complete homework on a daily basis
Educational enrichment which includes:
Book Blast. We provide books of all levels to read when homework is complete
Baxter’s Clubhouse / Step Into Reading . Offered at select sites, this program provides intensive, one-on-one reading tutoring
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) curriculum. Twice a month, participants will have opportunity to view STEM components in a fun and interesting way such as science experiments and other hands-on activities.
Guest presenters: our city government partners provide educational enrichment presentations
Physical recreation that includes organized games, activities, and opportunities for children to play, and offer weekly nutrition education programs
Social recreation and supervised free time where kids can play and socialize
Arts and crafts projects that children can take home
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Seriously? says:
May 30, 2015 at 6:51 pm
And is the city of Sedona paying Sounds Bites as it says: “The City of Sedona Parks and Recreation selected Sound Bites Grill to host Sedona’s Teen Dance Party 2015.” If so, this city is truly out of control. OMG! Not to be believed.
Hi there Steve, in all appreciation for your comments and for others too (which everyone I know reads for a myriad of reasons including everybody at city hall where I have friends) about the parks & rec and Soundbites, here’s what I think: Our school offers STEM programs (my nephew is in a VOC stem program this week), sports, art, pre and after care, etc. We don’t need overlapping events for the handful of kids that attend these kind of activities, but a central base (school) and (parks/rec) and an approach the unifies the offerings of both. This is not a function of the chamber or tourism if that’s the thought, this isn’t babysitting for tourists and that seems to be an indirect desire of the parks & rec people. Timeshares & resorts have their own offerings, or tourists can use the pools and parks.
When the city that I love involves itself in programs, it ruins private/public ability to generate ideas and incomes. When I see classes like guitar or art that gives a guy from the Valley a reason to write off his vacation week in Sedona, it is upsetting. We have more musicians trying to survive on music and voice lessons than you can put in a school bus and they don’t need the city competing with them. They pay the taxes to keep the city in business. The city penalizes them twice? One of the reasons in my opinion that the YC campus failed is city competition. I can hear the naysayers, but we parents living this life with kids are often perplexed by you retirees, empty nesters and childless homeowners making decisions that don’t reflect reality on the street.
I don’t want to appear argumentative and do appreciate what parks & rec tries to do. The astronomy camp out is a terrific city effort & that type of program on city parklands can only be done by parks & rec. City walks, park usage, city ball games on fields, dog parks, marathons, and more envelops our city and its people into a vibrant community. The fine line is getting into the livelihoods of our artists and musicians, our businesses.
Thanks for the place to share and speak our minds, Mr. Editor. I will keep an open mind as comments come in and enjoy my visits here each morning. Kristen, Sedona AZ
Kristen, Sedona says:
Thanks Kristen , all I am saying is the City of Sedona is trying, Sedona average age is now around 60. but need to act like all of us are in or 30ies…..
Sedona is growing and we need to think about all our residents.
steve
@Steve Segner: SEDONA IS NOT PHOENIX! Please cease with your comparing Sedona to metropolitan cities. Stick to the Vision Statement – the part about “small town atmosphere” – which isn’t in keeping with city government paying to entertain teens at a night club.
Thank you.
@Nancy M.
IMO – The Job of any City Manager is to run his/her City based upon the Business aspects of same. Oh, Yes, there are many “community” and “business” aspects needed to be taken into consideration on a wide variety of levels for a successful City! And part of His job is realize his responsibility to advise His (City Manager) City Council as to the ramifications of their actions. Seems to me that is a rather simple concept?
Please recall/remember that our system of government in Sedona is a City Manager/Council form of government.
In reminding folks of the above Fact – I am not being Mean in any way (and am actually feeling affronted by that comment from as it is mean spirited and shallow) – I’m just saying that for our little town it is vastly important that our City Manager gives his Educated Expertise to the Council. He has the education and experience in City Management vs those who just have none and are elected. Hence the wisdom of understanding a Professional’s opinions vs those who play with payback to those who elected them.
IMO his first job should be to become very educated and clear on our budget – all aspects! Then he should be looking at City structures and how over the top of how many employees we have for a town our size. First and foremost he needs to deal with All of our financial issues!
I’m more than willing to give him a time frame to become acquainted with the City He wants to run – but NOT when I watch and hear him say he will no longer give recommendations to the Council unless He decides to!
Nice that you say he should listen to the people. Isn’t that, yet again, Political rhetoric rather than a real City aspect of caring and doesn’t the business concept ( which pays for our existence) play into to that attitude?
@steve Segner – seems to me that the appropriate place to hold a Teen Dance is Any place other than were booze is sold! Try the City owned Teen Center or try the City owned Parks – or the patio at City Hall!
Nancy M. says:
@Steve Segner: SEDONA IS NOT PHOENIX! Please cease with your comparing Sedona to metropolitan cities.
Phoenix has kids and so does Sedona… “small town atmosphere” Suncity Sedona, ,55+ is that what you are getting at? No kids,no parks,no dances , no visitors after 8:00 p.m.
“small town atmosphere” Is not a code word for” NIMBY” In Sedona Vision Statement
Steve
Kids shouldn’t be in bars. Period. If they’re in a restaurant with a bar, parents should be there with them to hold them accountable and the parents responsible. Enough said.
Nooooooooooo one wants to Goooooooooo!! Stoooop old people telling us what to doo!!
There was already one report that this was a flop then Rachel Murdoch puts in the RRNews that it’s still going on because there’s nothing else like it in the Verde Valley!
Why doesn’t this woman understand that just because she lives in Cottonwood her paycheck comes from Sedona. Therefore her job is not to constantly make demands to benefit the entire Verde Valley.
When will city management demand that Ms. Murdoch knock off the free stuff and attempt to get some sort of financial return from the multitude of programs she offers.
Teen night at Sound Bites is a failure and yet this woman continues to run amok.
@disgusted BOO HOO……WHAAAAAAA!! Get a life loser!!!
Hi Dennis K – have you tried looking in the mirror? Just where is it you live? Why is it you dismiss the fact that local government should be concerned with just that – the boundaries of their jurisdiction? Little Missie Rachel steps up at the council meeting like she is the be it, serve all Savior, of the Verde Valley. What happened to Sedona where her job and production should be directed? You get a life but without Sedona perhaps you won’t have one. Again, where is it you reside?
@Disgusted
I repeat WHAAAAA….Boo Hoo….
You sound like you have an inferiority complex and are jealous of R Maddock…
Did you secretly want to work at parks and recreation in another life