Just reading what has happened is nothing short of what’s happened to the country nationally. To be specific, council elections have been bought and paid for. This is easily traceable by researching Sedona Eye archives and following the trail of just how the Chamber of Commerce and this Segner fellow with his lodging group is like reading a novel. Each chapter of the well cited city council meetings clearly documents the manipulation that has brought respectable City of Sedona to its knees.

Best of luck to you, and you will most likely need it. You can count us out as future tourists and definitely retirees. Why would we choose Sedona as a place to spend our remaining years? Or even one more day for that matter.

The Village of Oak seems just fine without a city. Please enlighten us with all the reasons Sedona is better off than the Village? Then tell us why you don’t live in the city of Sedona, but just collect funds from the city of Sedona?

How about a salaried worker that’s who. But I bet you knew the answer but like to stir the pot. They get paid for 40 hours even if they have to work 60 hours. What a great deal for YOU TAX PAYERS.

As for question number 2, you assume a lot as a matter of fact your entire rant is an assumption. You are proof positive of the old adage about assuming anything.

Question #3, that can’t be your final insult because you take insult with anything positive on this site written about the City.

With the damage that has been done by both city council and city management over the past few years, anyone would be crazy to want to be now associated with managing this poorly run sinking ship. Unless of course they were benefiting financially or otherwise . That leaves me and most honest citizens out of the running.

Since we are given no choice, I suggest boycotting the election. Just don’t vote. Why would you even waste a minute? Let them fail with their own illegitimacy. When you see them in town shun them.

karma will give them what they deserve.

Blessings.

My qualification: I once worked for the government I’m complaining about….But I Got FIRED…. Oppppps

1)”Most Sedona employees work 4 days a week but still work 40 hours and most times more, where’s the issue????? 40 hours is still 40 hours, right????”

When have you ever seen a government employee worker work unpaid overtime? When you get to the window at 4:30, and they say, sure I’ll stay another 15 minutes to take care of you? What about the normal work day when city offices are closed for the convenience of the employees? Do we work for the city employees or do they work for us?

2)”I think that it’s a great deal to share the pain with tourists that come, leave their sales or bed tax AND LEAVE US AFTER A FEW DAYS. ”

This is assuming these magic tourists don’t clog and wear out our roads, drop trash, require traffic personnel uptown, use our sewer system that we subsidize for them. They just come and leave money. I can’t imagine a tourist staying in a hotel taking multiple long hot showers with no concern about the sewer. Millions of them. RIGHT.

3) Then the final insult is the city council makes sure they gift most of what they collect back to the Chamber of Commerce go bring in more tourists. This without a concern that the City of Sedona Budget is in deficit by MILLIONS. More magic cost free tourists will solve the problem, even though it never has before. Remember when they claimed the tourists would pay for everything? My monthly sewer bill and the nearly 10% sales tax I pay sure does not reflect that. The weekend traffic that is so heavy I don’t want to leave my home does not improve my quality of life.

Maybe the new city council will be fiscally responsible to the citizens of Sedona? My bet is they continue to insult us, pay the Chamber to advertise for more tourists and “improve” the whole Verde Valley with our tax dollars.

Jennifer Wisselhoff told the City Council of Rob Adams that the citizens of Sedona do not contribute to the tax base of Sedona. Her words were it’s minimal. She lied. She would say anything to get tax payers dollars. The City Council was so stupid that they believed it. What a joke.