The City of Sedona launches new tourism program that promotes the businesses within the city. Do you work, own or have friends with an inside-the-city Business? Great news & opportunity for you. Let’s share the information and get our businesses signed up. Sign up the business inside the city to receive “referrals and leads, and…
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City of Sedona Monthly Report
Did you know that you could sign up to receive email notices on the City of Sedona’s Monthly Cash Flows & Investment Report? These reports are great, easy to understand, have comparisons, Sales & Bed Tax Receipts by month & year, capital improvements, and much more, and are an accurate tool. These reports are official…
New Tourism Advisory Board for Sedona
After outsourcing the city’s tourism program to the regional chamber, the Sedona City Council voted to bring the tourism program in house. The Sedona City Council is doing the right thing again by moving forward with a new Tourism Advisory Board (TAB). This moves our community forward in the most positive way and follows the…
Yavapai College’s increase property taxes
Many read the notice posted on Facebook “Yavapai College proposes 5% tax increase” from The Verde Valley Independent article here. We all appreciate the local papers placing notices like this on Facebook. If they didn’t we wouldn’t be informed. According to the Verde Valley Independant “The Yavapai Community College District is proposing an increase in…
The Slow Death of Sedona 2013
The Slow Death of Sedona started way before 2013, unbeknownst to Sedona Residents.
New Municipal Destination Marketing Program
New Municipal Destination Marketing Management Program was introduced and adopted on May 10, 2023 Sedona City Council meeting. Donna’s Email Sent 5/5/2023 Good morning Sedona,2023 continues on a positive path and just wanted to share some updates. Please feel free to share this email, and feel free to send me items you like to share to…
Destination Marketing Perspective
City Doing the Right Thing with Destination Marketing by Donna Joy Sedona, AZ — 4/26/23, 8:42 AM City Doing the Right Thing with Destination Marketing Sedona.biz Research proves many of these are opinion based, not factual pertaining to the Sedona Chamber and the City of Sedona. Headlines such as “Sedona must repeal the 0.5% bed…
Why We Need a Sedona Residents Footprint Network
Being free to gather knowledge, share knowledge, respectful and considerate helps seed, nurture, and grow our community, Sedona Residents Footprint Network. The wider we accept each other’s differences without judgments the faster we grow, learn, and gain friends, expanding our experience, awareness, understanding, the 3d effects, our horizon, gaining information, and intel. We have earned…
Sedona City Bed Tax No requirement to market
There has been so much misinformation on Sedona City Bed Tax being generated from the Sedona Chamber. April 12, 2023, Sedona City Council Meeting, the City Attorney, Kurt Christianson, explained that based upon ARS 9-500.06 law, it is a City Tax, not a pass-through tax. The Council has all rights to keep it in place….
Sedona Chamber NEVER Stopped Marketing Sedona
Sedona Chamber lied, continued to marketing Sedona, they never stopped they changed the words. City Council agreed they didn’t want to hear from residents. The Sedona Chamber Board and CEO played the Disinformation campaign of false intel intending to mislead the public, rival the City Council, and control public funding through the media waves. The…