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Sedona council interviews four applicants; housing, budget and home-rule tradeoffs dominate
Summary
Councilors spent the bulk of the interview session questioning four applicants about workforce housing, municipal budgeting, conflict-of-interest practices and home rule versus permanent base adjustment, citing the need for an appointee who can quickly engage on budget and land-use matters.
The Sedona City Council spent an extended interview session with four applicants for a vacant council seat — Alan Alffett, Charlotte Hosseini, a candidate identified as Sean, and Ernest (Ernie) Stroud — focusing their questions on workforce housing, the municipal budget process, conflicts of interest, and the ballot-level choice between home rule and a permanent base adjustment.
Alan Alffett framed housing as a national problem that is intensified locally by limited land and high demand. "In Sedona, it's exacerbated by the fact that we have limited land resources... In order to build more affordable housing, the city will have to subsidize it," Alffett said, listing land banks, community-owned housing and greater use of ADUs as potential tools and noting the…
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