Sedona AZ (July 31, 2018) – Arizona Liberty, a local Sedona political action committee, is filing a lawsuit today in Yavapai County Superior Court against the city of Sedona for illegally invalidating its citizens’ initiative to place a Permanent Base Adjustment on the November 6, 2018 ballot.
A Permanent Base Adjustment lets voters decide how much of their taxpayer dollars the city of Sedona would be allowed to spend. Currently, there are no limits.
“This outrageous attempt to disenfranchise voters will not stand,” said Arizona Liberty PAC Treasurer Dwight Kadar. “We will go to court to protect citizens’ right to vote on the financial future of Sedona.”
“On July 9, 2018, Arizona Liberty submitted 639 signatures to Sedona City Clerk Susan Irvine to put the citizens’ initiative on the ballot, well above the required 429,” explained Kadar. “And on July 30, we received written notification from the City Clerk that a total of 156 signatures were found to be ineligible.”
The City Clerk rejected 111 signatures as ineligible because, in her words “the signatures were not county of majority on petition.”
Arizona Liberty has contacted election officials in both Coconino and Yavapai Counties and they have no knowledge of such language or requirement.
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what’s county of majority?
@ Rachel
To answer your question, the City Clerk refused to accept 111 legitimate signatures collected from citizens living in the Coconino County side of Sedona to place Permanent Base Adjustment on the November 6 election ballot. She said the signatures were not from the “county of majority” in the City. This is the City’s unfounded interpretation of the law. Election officials in both Coconino and Yavapai Counties say they have no knowledge of such language or requirement. It’s as if the City doesn’t believe that the citizens living in the Uptown area are part of Sedona because the county of the majority is Yavapai County!
JRN
Council FAILED!
Greed stepped in
They are fighting hard to keep your MONEY.
Vote NO on Home Rule
Vote “No” on Home Rule. Vote “Yes” on the more sensible option, Permanent Base Adjustment, which will be on the November ballot. The City Council (except John Currivan), Chamber of Commerce, and Sedona Red Rock News’ editor Christopher Fox Graham continue to ignore the option PBA in media. They present the “either/or” philosophy in that if you don’t vote for Home Rule, the State will take over, imposing a minuscule budget which would doom our city with severe service cuts and layoffs. Don’t be fooled by the City, Chamber of Commerce, and the biased Sedona Red Rock News articles!