How appropriate is it for the City of Sedona to designate most recently $2.01 million of Sedona City tax revenue to a special interest group that is obligated to use that money to promote all of their members, most located outside City Limits and not collecting City taxes?

Oh sure, old news, but does that diminish the colossal rip-off and unfairness to struggling licensed businesses that foot the bill for this extravagant Sedona City Give Away program? I’m hoping that deep down former Vice Mayor DiNunzio looks back upon that decision, now continuing to run amok without benefit of RFP’s, as having been a tremendous mistake and is among the regrets he outlined in his comments in the above article.

This City Council it appears strategically planned this study of Sedona’s garbage policy in order to drop the newly assigned obligation to the unfortunate residents in City Limits, as the well financed regional C of C spends “our” money to promote competition outside incorporated Sedona itself, competing with in-city businesses and now, in addition, the advent of the notorious city owned Hub Nightclub.

So there’s little doubt that once approved other monthly bills from incorporated city will be on future agendas over and above pest control and/or whatever else the big shots can weasel into the plan to sock it to the local residents and businesses as they constantly complain we are not paying our fair share.

Well, we’ll see how many short term/vacation rentals will be paying their fair share after the first of the year. The Lord works in mysterious ways and you’d better believe it. The story of the demise of Sedona quite possibly hasn’t even begun. Foolish, egotistical big brothers that have the audacity to really believe they know what’s best for us. Or do they?

So only two companies filed bids – Taylor Waste and Waste Management. It’s really not a surprise Patriot didn’t throw their hat into the ring because they quite possibly realized, based on the detailed demands in the Request for Proposals, the monthly cost would be prohibitive. Because various conditional terms such as opting out part of the year and special service assistance with the trash containers in addition to various methods of collection recyclable’s created a maze of what-ifs, it most assuredly would be difficult to project factual costs.

It will be interesting to learn if City Council members realistically view the results as potentially palatable for those of us that will be paying the price. Should the final decision be continued to after the first of the year when the two newly elected members will be seated, and both openly objected to city controlled garbage hauling during their campaigns, the decision to pursue this proposal pushed on in spite of tremendous opposition which, unfortunately, was considered by currently seated council members as coming from but a vocal minority. Believing city control is OK with the silent majority is not a realistic assumption and nothing more than a cop out and insult to those who took time to voice their concerns to elected officials.