West County Voting Bloc has controlled agenda for at least last eight years by making sure chair is from that side of County; issues regarding east side of County have been blocked from serious discussion
The Yavapai Community College Governing Board will select a new president at its January 15 meeting. For the past eight years, it has maintained control over the agenda by selecting a member of the Board who represents the west side of the County at is chair. Who is in the chair is important because he or she sets the agenda for each meeting and controls the ebb and flow of each meeting.
Because of agenda control, issues such as the location of centralized CTEC facility on the east side of the County, a request from the Chino Valley Council to meet regarding a potential raceway, a Board meeting with the Yavapai-Apache Nation, or a serious discussion about the future development of the east side Verde Campus and Sedona Center have been kept from the Board.
There is hope that neither west-side hardliners Ray Sigafoos nor Pat McCarver will continue as Chair. It is also hoped that the roadblocks for discussion of important issues that current Chair Sigafoos has blocked in the past will be removed after January 1.