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Sedona without vision is a brand without value
Financial columnist J. Rick Normand asks and answers tough questions about the City of Sedona decision to hire a private debt collection firm rather than train City staff to do the work in his Eye on Sedona column.
Sedona AZ (July 30, 2013) – Is the City of Sedona permanently branding itself as business-unfriendly?
Who is RDS Discovery Systems? They market themselves as Sedona’s Partner!...
U.S. Treasury Bond Market Bubble Waiting to Burst
Sedona AZ (May 25, 2013) – by J. Rick Normand, Financial Columnist to the SedonaEye.com, writes an Open Letter to Sedona Council and Financial Staff:
Below mentioned is the way it’s going down! Too bad you’re not putting money into reserves. And, of course, you will all believe I am wrong – until I can say “I told you so!”
J. Rick Normand
These are the all-important...
Law of Unintended Consequences Meets Probable New Sales-Tax Policy
Sedona AZ (May 8, 2013) – by J. Rick Normand, Financial Columnist to the SedonaEye.com
We all keep hearing the arguments from our City’s Council, with the exception of our Vice-Mayor, and from the Sedona Chamber of Commerce and City Staff that we need additional bed and sales taxes to pay for the unexpected costs of additional destination traveler marketing and the implied possibility of...
Sedona Increasing Sales and Property Taxes
J. Rick Normand
Sedona AZ (April 25, 2013) – The following is an Open Letter to the City of Sedona Council and Sedona taxpayers and visitors written and submitted by J. Rick Normand, a Sedona resident:
Dear Councilor(s),
If your Budget Oversight Commission doesn’t know what the chart below is telling them about forecasting excise tax collections over the next couple of years, then I...
Certain Sedona Councilors and Mayor Campaign Promises
J. Rick Normand
Sedona AZ (April 17, 2013) – On January 7, 2010, the SedonaEye.com published an article entitled “Citizen Group Advocating ‘Will of the People’” which recited, amongst other things, the campaign promises of three current sitting Councilors and the Mayor.
Any of these now seated Councilors and Mayor who would vote for a proposal to impose new Chamber-funneled...
Sedona Defaults on Festival Tourism Says Citizen
J. Rick Normand
Sedona AZ (June 14, 2011)- In a Letter to the SedonaEye.com editor, Sedona Arizona resident J. Rick Normand takes the Sedona City Council and Mayor to task for failing to see the economic handwriting on the wall:
“Dear Mayor and Sedona City Council,
Sedona, Arizona has completely and utterly defaulted the world of festival tourism structured as signature experiences to...
Crude Oil Price Impact Graph
Sedona AZ (February 25, 2011) – In a letter to the SedonaEye.com editor, J. Rick Normand of Sedona asks that the following chart be shared with readers:
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J. Rick Normand on Sedona Faces a Watershed Moment
J. Rick Normand writes an opinion that Sedona Arizona faces a financial watershed moment in this SedonaEye.com article
Sedona AZ (February 22, 2011) – ASU’s Morrison Institute for Public Policy and the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) both project…”a continued deterioration in the state’s budget outlook for decades to come absent fundamental policy changes that address...
Sedona Tourism Continues to Decline
Sedona AZ (October 25, 2010) – In a Letter to the SedonaEye.com editor, Sedona Arizona resident J. Rick Normand asks the newly seated Sedona City Council to address declining tourism and its financial impact:
Well, the old Council didn’t get it…does the new Council? Here is why tourism is still declining:
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