“We are being cheated out of the facilities and programming we deserve and are paying for”
Mr. Staadecker
Joel Staadecker, a 16 year Sedona resident, urged the Sedona Mayor and Council at the September 27, 2016 meeting to join him and others to persuade the Governor and State Legislature to create an independent taxing district for an independent Verde Valley community college. We “must get out from under the crushing oppression of the Yavapai College governance system, leadership and management that resides and works on the West side of Mingus Mountain for the benefit of the Prescott region communities,” he said.
He went on to say that the citizens need a community college in the Verde Valley because “we are being cheated out of the facilities and programming we deserve and are paying for in our property tax dollars.”
He pointed out that two days after the Verde Valley Forum, attended by about 100 participants, recommended that an unbiased, independent study be conducted to examine the establishment of an independently governed community college in the Verde Valley, the Prescott dominated Governing Board effectively abolished the Verde Valley Board Advisory Committee. That Committee made a similar recommendation on the day before it was abolished. The three members from the Prescott region that voted to eliminate it apparently knew in advance from newspaper reports that the Committee would be making the recommendation.
Mr. Staadecker’s short speech to the Sedona Council can be viewed by clicking here. http://www.screencast.com/t/jeDjhbcP5kO