Quality of life should trump fat cat ADOT dollars spent on 108 lights that will cost a fortune to keep lit for 10 hours each and every day. Add it up. Our city electric bill is enormous now. Quadruple it & times it by years. Give me a road instead.

LIGHTS in a poor economy? Thousands and thousands of $$ to keep the night sky lit for drunks and coyotes & it ruins quality of life. Own the road.

Businesses on 89A don’t care about residents and tourists except as wallet-vultures. I know, I used to own a business & let me tell you, my bottom line loved your wallets. If I could have had lights to keep you in my store 24/7 I would have dug the holes and turned the switches on every night myself.

Stop inviting the shaft from Scagnelli/Frey/Colquitt/Surber & business cronies. Bad politicians for Sedona then – worse for its future.

Stand up. Those power hungry buffoons were soundly ousted in the last election. Hold firm. Show some backbone. Send your ballots back marked clearly with A YES ON 410.

Also, by your own admission, N. Baer, available funding to ADOT expands far beyond taxes collected from only the residents within Sedona City Limits. Isn’t it true that will no longer be the case if City of Sedona holds the deed to this five mile stretch of State Highway which runs from at least Prescott through Jerome, Cottonwood, Sedona, and up Oak Creek Canyon though Flagstaff?

Why do people keep forgetting that ADOT designed the present highway mess that we have?

Why do you think that the Arizona Department of Transportation gives a tarnation about Sedona tourists, residents or businesses? It’s not their job to know one thing about those issues.

Their job at the department of transportation? Install lights and lay asphalt. That is the business that they are in.

We are on the list of 1) where to dump asphalt and 2) get rid of lights to 3) justify not dumping state workers for a bloated agency.

And for “Another Point of View”: Here’s a 108 Uptown reason for telling ADOT to take its lights and ship them back to China:

108 jackasses are employed where only 18 work.

Has anyone else observed a very stark omission, that being “OUR MONEY.” Oh, but then why confuse this issue with a true portrayal of facts at this late stage of the game?

Based on that prevailing attitude with these obviously devious people, what better reason is there than to vote an emphatic “NO” on Proposition 410 which will properly maintain the cost of improvements and maintenance as ADOT’s responsibility which is appropriate for State Route designated roadways.

1) The number 108 is considered sacred in many Eastern religions.

2) The distance of Sun from Earth divided by the diameter of Sun is approximately 108. The distance of Moon from Earth divided by the diameter of Moon is approximately equal to 108. It is claimed that the great sires of Vedante knew of this relationship and thus 108 is very important.

3) In Japan at the end of the year a bell is chimed 108 x’s in temples to finish the old year and welcome the new one.

4) The pre-historic monument Stonehenge is about 108′ in diameter.

5) According to Ayurveda there are 108 pressure points in the body.

6) An official Major League baseball has 108 stitches.

7) There are 108 cards in a deck of UNO.

8) Volume expansion of freezing water is roughly 108%.

9) The British television series “DOCTOR WHO” has exactly 108 missing episodes.

10) There are 108 beads on a Mala for repetitions of a mantra.

11) The number 108 is used in Islam to refer to GOD.

If this issue is really about the installation of 108 lights on 89A then I say Sedona could go down in the record books for having the foresight to install 108 “dark sky compliant” lights on a five (5) mile stretch of road and there must be someone looking after us to come up with the number 108. We should be praising GOD and thanking ADOT for helping “LIGHT” the way for the “LOST” travelers along Sedona’s dark and lonely stretch of 89A by adding 108 very important lights.

During the campaign Litrell and slate were pointedly asked if they would support ownership of Hwy 89A and repeatedly they stated NO.

Now councilors Litrell and Hamilton have spent months telling the community that we will have a choice on exactly what we want Hwy 89A to look like and that we have plenty of money. No remorse for their lies, no respect for us as residents of this fine city!

If you voice a different opinion than Litrell and Hamilton you are informed by them that you are uninformed and need to be “educated”. How insulting, as If we are children that are incapable of forming our own opinions and need them to tell us how to vote and think!

These councilors have lost my support and my future vote as they have done exactly what they accused the last council of doing, ignoring the Will of the People, twisting the facts to fit their own agenda and saying anything that will turn a voter to their view.

What can we do as mere residents?
 VOTE NO 410! No to Ownership of Hwy 89A.

 Tell your neighbors and friends about the urgency of voting on this issue and the extreme financial burden Sedona will carry for generations to come if we own Hwy 89A.

 Keep informed at http://www.savesedonanow.wordpress.com

I also recomend the group Let The People Vote On 89A at http://www.letthepeoplevoteon89a.com for information.

Liz Smith