Presented 5/2019, sedona's #1 traffic mess
4 years to start construction... connects tlaquepaque north and south. still no permanent fencing. council not standing up to adot or tlaquepaque management.
Estimated 1400 Short Term Rentals (STR) in Sedona. 5 to 7 car trips a day per rental! Traffic, Noise, Parties, Lost neighborhoods! More security needed! Underpaid cops! VISIT OUR BLOG FOR THE DETAILS! SHORT TERM THINKING=SEDONA DISASTER Sedona's Achilles Heel
What happened to the Sedona 30 day rentail policy?
The council and staff of sedona have been systematically i
TRAFFIC TO NOWHERE
Do you like seeing the views through your windshield? Negative for the residents - can't even get to the store.
Wonder what the TOURIST experience is? Will you balance be returned to our town?
GET ALONG - GO ALONG. NEVER STAND UP - NO LEADERSHIP
The council votes almost alwatys 7 to Zero. No diverse opinions, staff puts it on the table, couinciol bloviates, then votes 7-0, most of the time. That's not leadership, that's a predetermined vote made before COUNCIL MEETINGS.
CLIMATE ACTION PLAN
Wasting over a $million in the 2023 budget to accomplish what - a feel good program? And at the same time inviting 3 million+ tourists to come visit us in their cars and tour busses? Climate changes - been doing that for 4.2 BILLION years. Will you continue this nonsense or shut it down?
OUT OF CONTROL SPENDING $105 MILLION BUDGET
8 Years ago, the budget in 2018 was $48 million with an average expenditure of $39 million for the previous 5 years.
2022 council voted for a $105.7 MILLION dollar budget for Sedona, 9674 people, 300 people less than 10 yrs ago, but a budget increase of 121%.
CITY GIVES BIG RAISES- HIRES MORE
PARKING GARAGE UPTOWN RESIDENTS objected - were ignored
The City of Sedona happily gave big raises and hired more people, just over 180...for what. We lost about 300 people in the last census. 45 city empoloyess making over $100k a year. Insane. Time for zero based budgeting.
PARKING GARAGE UPTOWN RESIDENTS objected - were ignored
PARKING GARAGE UPTOWN RESIDENTS objected - were ignored
$11 Million Parking garage, now $26 Million and counting. $92,000 a parking spot. How do you accept a bid that is opened ended. That's not how you do business - ever.
SIDEWALKS TO NOWHERE FOR 59 YEAR OLDS
The median age in Sedona is 59 years (39 for the State) - so the next time you see the city putting in sidewalks that costs $100s of thousands, you might ask "who for"? To walk the hills of Sedona to Safeway?
Who will stop the urbanization of Sedona?
TAX AND SPEND - THE sedona WAY
LET THE TOURISTS PAY - The citizens of Sedona are NOT tourists. The crazy spending programs council has voted for, then made the .5% "temporary sales tax" PERMANENT hurt every Sedona Citizen. Residents are last. When will that change?
money to burn
$100, of thousands in "Studies". I thought we elected smart people with diverse backgrounds. Bids that have huge cost overruns.
Projects like $840,000 culvert - fixed noting. Millions in cost overruns, Forest Road, Garage. $20 million dumped in the Cuoltuiral park, $%10 million cash from affordabel housing, and $10 million more in debt. This is the SHORT LIST
SALARIES 2026
This year’s rundown of city staff’s salaries indicates that they have reached new heights of absurity, with a total of forty-five regular city staff—twenty-two percent of the total—having ascended to the $100,000-plus salary circle, up from 28 last year. Most do not live in Sedona.
CITY "leadership"
8 YEARS later - 2022
2014
POPULATION 10,031
(Source City & US Census)
CITY BUDGET $36,145,399
(Source - City budget docs)
CITY STAFF - Full time Employees) 112
BUSINESSES LICENSES 2,784
Source: City business reports
8 YEARS later - 2022
8 YEARS later - 2022
2022
POPULATION 9,684
(Source City & US Census)
CITY BUDGET $105,747,040
(Source - City budget docs)
CITY STAFF - Full time Employees 178 (now over 180)
BUSINESSES LICENSES 1,234
Source: City business reports
historical Council
So far - the last 12 years have brought
Budget, city staffing, STRs and traffic sky-rocketed. The population, number of schools and businesses shrunk. Who stops Sedon'a decline.
Casmpaigns come and go, mayors and council chngae - city direction does not.
Councilors campaign on standing up and taking a leadership role yet do not lead nor stand up for the last 12 years for the constituents.
In 2017 council eliminated the 30 day restriction on short-term rentals; the root cause of our STR problem creating a shortage in work force housing. Council did not stand up and fight when it counted, the majority of the council caved to a marginal city attorney and a manipulative City manager instead of hiring outside legal council to review the positive and negative outcome of the most critical decision ANY Sedona city council has made since the incorporation of the city. Yet commissioned studies are initated at the drop of a hat for a myriad of other less important decisions.
Council voted to make the temporary .5% sales tax on the citizens OF Sedona Permanent, and now the city is buying property, which takes it off the tax roles making the citizens property taxes go up even more. Brilliant.
The community pl;an is a joke - has little to do with the community.