An $800 Million Problem & a 17,000 Voter Opportunity

At the upcoming Tuesday Scottsdale City Council meeting, councilmembers are likely to approve a $350 million bond question for the November ballot. If approved by the voters, the bond will allow the city to start chipping away at the $800 million of unfunded infrastructure needs. The bond request coincides with a monumental citizen effort to protect the McDowell Sonoran Preserve from the city council majority-backed, $68 million Desert Edge/DDC.

UncategorizedApril 18, 2018archive

Bucket Full of Holes

There is no point in filling a bucket full of holes. City Council can't borrow or tax us out of our financial hole unless they end wasteful spending first. Voters should pass the $350 million infrastructure bond when City Council commits to ending all public funding for the private interest, $68 million DeserEdge.http://www.facebook.com/SolangeForScottsdale READ MORE

UncategorizedApril 16, 2018archive

A Tale of Two Charities

A Tale of Two Charities: After 35 years and tens of thousands of wildlife lives saved and far-too-many-educational programs to even count- Liberty Wildlife finally has a building. The award winning facility is built on industrial wasteland that they restored back to health benefiting the entire community. The cost to tax payers: $0. By contrast, the Desert Discovery Center Scottsdale Inc, has zero programs, expects tax payers to fund $68 million worth of infrastructure on pristine, tax payer funded Sonoran desert. Without serving a single person in our community, the DDCS (a charity) has already cost tax payers millions. Charities, as Liberty Wildlife so elegantly demonstrates, should SERVE and ENRICH a community.... READ MORE