Wasn’t that state park park up there shut down when the water got contaminated because it wasn’t flowing? How’s your water conditions any better this year with this drought?

Your town manager might want to hear from this outsider but we won’t drive all the way to Sedona & never for a water park & we live on your side of town. We’ve got an indoor rec center that’s nice & cheap & we’ve a neighborhood pool? My wife says to say she & neighbors wouldn’t bother hooking a hose outside for kids because they’d be back whining about it being too hot in 3 minutes and we’ll save our gas & energy & water & misery. She doubts people from here would be interested because its not worth the drive when we have what we need here.

Most of us don’t go to Sedona because it’s expensive & wouldn’t bring kids if we did. Why don’t you plant cactus gardens with statues like the valley does? That’s pretty for tourists.

http://cottonwoodaz.gov/utilities/droughtplan.pdf

Mark Jones, Cottonwood

Did you hear that Williams is in “Dire Straits” with only a 5 month supply of water? And Kingman has stopped any building permits – all due to lack of water. Water restrictions were discussed for many communities – which all makes sense in one of the largest droughts experienced…and let us not forget the growing fields of our veggies in California.

Now, please switch gears to the City of Sedona: where our staff and Council just approved a Water Pad Park – which I now call a “Spit Park” – as when you spit into the wind it evaporates and doesn’t come back to benefit the person that spit.

Hummmmm – what in hell is our elected not getting? All Counties, according to the news, and in Arizona, are in a Natural Disaster Area regarding drought and lack of water – yet our elected and equally or more important Parks gal Rachael – want a water pad (spit pad)???

OMG folks – time to stop the myopic nepotism which seems to run rampant with city and Rachael and then where the buck stops: City Council must find a handle on getting back to basics instead of wasting money and water.

Nancy Baer, Sedona

It does throw you off if your not expecting it, that was how I learned to do this. It works. No pressure

He allowed all the speakers at the Chamber of Commerce meeting about that 55% bed tax kickback the usual three minutes. Also at the meetings about Commissions vs. Citizen Engagement. In fact, I’ve never observed that rude treatment before at any meeting. It was discourteous to all speakers and especially those who traveled into Sedona for this meeting. Even from Phoenix and Prescott, with their carefully written three minute comments only to be told to shut up after two minutes. It cut the meeting’s length by maybe 15 or 20 minutes.

Shame on this type of rude discrimination. It’s clear the majority of this city council is only interested in spending money on nonsense and expensive projects like multi-million $$$ parks, creek walks, water wasting splash pads, blah, blah, blah. Serious consideration for the health, safety, and welfare of the voting residents apparently aren’t words included in their vocabularies. Or maybe it’s just the interpretation that’s askew?

The word I used was “promoting” not “advertising” all over the Verde Valley. Therefore, your attempt at a direct quote is invalid.

Watch last week’s City Council meeting and listen to Rachel Murdoch, head of Parks & Recreation, and you will hear from the horse’s mouth the hype about it being for all of Verde Valley. Of course. Isn’t Ms. Murdoch a resident of Cottonwood? How convenient for her and her children.