Last May 22nd the City Council passed an ordinance to rescind the unestablished, unapproved and unadopted 4% annual increase for FY 2018-19, yet bring it back for the following fiscal year. City Hall keeps speciously claiming the 4% increase was for six years when it was but four years.

According to the January 15, 2014 Sedona City Council ACTION MINUTES, “Council agreed by majority consensus to approve the financial plan recommendations for a 4% per year increase in the rate-based revenues for FY 2014-15 through FY 2017-18, and a reduction to 30% in the sales tax subsidies to the Wastewater Fund in FY 2014-15, followed by 25% in FY 2017-18.” The City of Sedona Notice of Intention to Raise Wastewater Rates covers exactly the same four years of 4% rate increases.

Would the 4% Wastewater rate increase from July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2019, be rescinded if Home Rule was not on the August 28, 2018 ballot?

My vote goes to YOU and NO on Home Rule! (You make my heart sing.)

Sedona is not the Walmart of America and neither is it cheap and without service oriented patrons. Your comment disgusts me. Tourism is not worth our present quality of life nor will it pay our future. Biotech companies that need to be close to Phoenix and Silicon Valley and have the added security of mountains are natural fits. Your businesses that rely on tourism are dirty, cheep and offer no service. But you and the smutzes at city hall lack business acumen to build a future. You want to attract good young people with children who have money to build a sustainable Sedona? The tax base you degrade and the state and city you degrade are the calling cards you need.

Sedona sits on two state hwy’s four state parks and camp grounds in Oak creek and the Grand Canyon just 100 miles north.
Tony is going to stop growth and turn the clocks back, and all with $20,000,000 less money to do it with. ( No on Home Rule)
NO on HOME RULE wil; bring
No new roads, no more paving of streets, close all the parks and up the cost of all permits and waste water fees, this is Tony’s world……
Forget all the merchants and the 8000 people that make a living in Sedona… Tony want it all to stop….. No more growth……
Tony for the 10th time show us your plan,show me I am wrong, $20,000,000 out of the budget just show us your budget…you Say you can do it , like I said talk is cheep .
This is Tony’s version of Trumps BUILD A WALL total bs…. And we all know it.

I don’t want Sedona to be ” the Walmart of America ,cheep and no service,” Please take your view of Arizona somewhere else. Your words and action show what you want to make Sedona. A Wallmart, a cheap, traffic clogged tourist trap. Like the city manager saying ” Traffic is our Destiny!”

NO !

I want Sedona to be like Heaven, beautiful , peaceful, somewhere everyone wants to be. A paradise for residents and tourists alike.

Voters and residents, please join me. I need your help. I need more than just your vote. You need you to get out and talk to your neighbors. I can’t do this by myself.

WE can take our town back.

If that’s what you truly believe, why did you move here and why do you stay? California will no doubt give you a warm welcome home party. In case you hadn’t heard, that’s a tax and spend state and a sanctuary for displaced people such as yourself.

Those two things are the least you can do. Or you can complain while they run the residents out of town.

By our good graces we believed everyone to be good. They have proved they are not.

If we could revive the old west tradition of running them out on a rail tarred and feathered, they continue to prove that is what they deserve.

Vote No on Home Rule.