I also remember while going to college having to go to a variety of school and municipal libraries in rain and snow to do a research paper for one or more of my classes. The new reality provides students with the means of doing research via the internet and the means to access information from all corners of the world… and we take it all for granted!

Tommy, isn’t it about time that you joined the NOW generation? We old folks should really benefit what the new generation has provided us with.

Andy in the VOC

IMO you just confimed the real reason for the City Council’s “Pre-meeting, Pre-discussion, Special Meeting, Workshop” get-togethers in the Vultee Conference Room “prior” to the regular “real” meetings.

No Sir, no TV in that Vulture Room to hold them accountable. Of course, audible tapes are available. Ha! Hardly the same. :-)

From the Supreme Court on down to the local fire district, from Exxon Board Meetings to Facetime, from street security cameras to hand held i-phones, real time is reality!!!! How old are you anyway???? Must be over 60 and living in the PAST time.

The problem with sitting in council meetings is that live stream holds people accountable for WHAT they say, HOW they say it, WITHOUT the ability to weasel out of it later by saying some writer or citizen with a grudge didn’t quote them correctly or took it out of context.

ACCOUNTABILITY is here. Ask people like Rodney King, Paris Hilton, Anthony Weiner, John Edwards, Rush Limbaugh, Bill Clinton and if you are as old as you seem to be remember how a missing 18 minutes changed history or Joe McCarthy was disgraced on TV or the Vietnam War and Iraqi Wars were brought in to living rooms in living blood colors or the hosings of civil rights workers or the tearing down of the Berlin Wall . REALLY TOMMY???? Best you got????

Any how like the article. Comments also.

Josh, Sedona

old school is sitting in council’s chamber & commenting publicly like we do here or writing or better even is VOTING PEOPLE OUT OR IN OFFICE BASED ON PERFORMANCE AND REPRESENTATION;; add transparency to that.

case in point; the flim flam land deal that real estate agent tried to ream taxpayer pockets with;; case in point; council hiding from cameras in premeets; get my point? don’t see your point that there is a problem forming opinions based on LIVE STREAM media or reading opinions/facts to form an opinion.

“One of the top priorities that has been mentioned in the Community Plan ever since it was initially required by the State of AZ. WAs the community desire to have a creek walk or creek access. I am simply trying honor a community priority by bringing this to fruition.”

A recent poll conducted by the Sedona Red Rock News indicates the following results in the edition dated Friday, July 13, 2012:

“QUESTION: What Input Have You Made to the Sedona Community Plan?

RESULTS:

6.8% Submitted card at a meeting
2.2% Submitted comment online
1.1% Visited the plan’s office

89.9% What’s the community plan?”

The RRN acknowledges this isn’t a scientific poll. However, with few exceptions the results of these local “unofficial” polls tend to accurately reflect the pulse of this community.

Therefore, the mayor intends to move forward with costly land acquisition, subsequent planning and implementation of a creek walk and accompanying park at an unknown cost, within an area designated as being in a flood plane and thus unknown liability to the city, based on input from an unknown number of the 10.1% of the people who have supplied input in the process of updating the Sedona Community Plan? Is there something wrong with this scenario?

Pay attention, voters, when that city owned property on Soldiers Pass is offered to be sold, against the advice of the City Manager who suggested the council not sell the property for five or ten years, when real estate values stabilize.

Why sit throught the whole meeting and listen to a bunch of people who LOVE to hear themselves talk…and say absolutely NOTHING that’s of any substance, when you can find what you are looking for in a couple of minutes and skip over the windbags?