Board Refuses to comment on proposed motor sports raceway at Old Home Manor; Chair of Board refuses Council request to make presentation to Board
Yavapai College continues to put its head in the sand and hide from Chino Valley citizens on the question of whether a proposed motor sports raceway on the Old Manor property in Chino Valley can be built. The College has by contract a right of first refusal and can block the project. The Town Council, frustrated at the refusal of the College to act, has decided to move ahead on its own and “force” Yavapai College to act.
A six minute video prepared by the Blog of the 20 plus minutes of the Town meeting discussion held March 21, 2017 can be found below. It focuses only on that part of the discussion by the Town Council that focused on Yavapai College’s refusal to say one way or the other whether it would use its right of refusal to block the project.
Here is what the Blog has been able to discover so far:
(1) Dozens of emails from Chino Valley residents to Governing Board members have gone unanswered. In fact, an estimated 300 of them were simply dumped in the lap of the Chino Valley mayor by President Wills.
(2) President Penelope Wills addressed the Chino Valley Council on February 14 about the proposed project. She did not tell members of the Governing Board during their meeting on February 14 she was going to do this. That night she claimed to be speaking for the College but not the Board at the Town Council meeting. (Her speech to the Chino Valley Council can be found in an earlier post on this Blog.) This is odd, to say the least.
(3) The Chino Valley Town Council voted February 14 to make a presentation to the College Governing Board.
(4) In a letter dated March 7, 2017 and signed by the Board Chair, Ray Sigafoos, he stated the Governing Board would not allow the Town Council to make a presentation to them as the Council had hoped. (See video below.)
(5) The letter from Mr. Sigafoos was not presented during the March 7 Governing Board meeting so that members of the Governing Board could vote to send or not send it.
(6) The Town Council is frustrated, if not angry, by the College’s tactics.
The complete Town Council meeting of March 21, 2017 can be accessed by clicking here.