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Submit Arguments against Sedona City Home Rule

Posted on April 1, 2026April 9, 2026 by Donna Joy

Submit Arguments against Sedona City Home Rule, the core issue for Sedona issues. Sedona has a critical vote coming up July 21, 2026, Alternative Expenditure Limitation AKA Home Rule. Home Rule gives the City Hall an open checkbook to do whatever they want without accountability. We have all witnessed the damage the City of Sedona has done with home rule. Now is your opportunity to be heard and to be a part of the publicity pamphlet.

There is no restriction to your city of residency or your voter status. Anyone may Submit your 200 words or less in electronic format to cityclerksdept@sedonaaz.gov 

Individuals submitting arguments must provide their name, physical or mailing address, and a telephone number. Only your name will be included in the publicity pamphlet.

The deadline for submission of opposing arguments is Wednesday, April 15, 2026 at 5:00 p.m.

Please join us with an argument against Home Rule. Spread the word.

There are millions of reasons to vote NO.

Remember, In 2013, the city. raised this bed tax to increase Tourism. Then the city raised the sales tax to pay for the tourism damage and traffic.

VOTE NO TO BIG GOVERNMENT * ENORMOUS SPENDING * TAX & SPEND * TRAFFIC ~ TRAFFIC ~ TRAFFIC 

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The deadline for submission arguments is Wednesday, April 15, 2026 at 5:00 p.m.

Rules:Individuals submitting arguments must provide their name, physical or mailing address, and a telephone number. Only your name will be included in the publicity pamphlet. Each argument filed shall contain the sworn statement of each person sponsoring it. If the argument is sponsored by an organization, it shall contain the sworn statement of two executive officers of the organization or if sponsored by a political committee it shall contain the sworn statement of the committee’s chairman or treasurer. The deadline for submission arguments is Wednesday, April 15, 2026 at 5:00 p.m.

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Remember how the city raised the bed tax gave it to the regional Chamber?


2013 The city raised city bed tax to market Sedona via the regional Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber pretended to be a DMO. See benchmark. The Chamber received 55% of city-bed-tax to promote a private regional membership that was not Tourism and did not qualify. They marketed to investors
In 2017, the Sedona City Council approved a new “Sunset” half-cent sales tax with a vote of 6-1. This revenue was earmarked to fund approximately $35 million in traffic mitigation construction over the following decade. In 2021, the City Council transitioned this sunset tax into a permanent sales tax increase.

Higher taxes lead to big government and government overreach.
Without home rule, we can reduce both.
Remember when city council lied and said the bed tax is a passthrough tax for the Chamber? The chamber and their members PAC campaigned for Home Rule in a war mode.

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