Category: Home Rule

Why Sedona doesn’t need home rule in one graph: The city’s needs, and staff’s workloads, have been shrinking for twenty years. Meanwhile, home rule budgets have gone the other direction.

Sedona’s population has declined steadily since cresting in 2007 and 2008. Tourism levels, contrary to the baseless assertions made by councilors, have not changed substantially in thirty years.Crime was in a long-term decline from two decades ago, at least until there was a recent spike in arrests correlated with increases in police and capital spending that gives credence to mayoral candidate Henry Silbiger’s argument