By Joe Ferguson | Arizona Daily Star
The area known as Vail could soon become the town of No.
Incorporation backers are willing to say “no” over and over again in order to get thousands of Vail voters to say yes to Proposition 403 on this year’s ballot.
No city hall. No police station. No senior center. No new parks. No performance center. And most important, no increases in property taxes.
Citizens for Vail, a pro-incorporation group comprising volunteers living in the area, believes the town can live off just state-shared revenues to provide the bare minimum of services required under state law.
Its planned $3.2 million budget would only pay for in-house law enforcement, road maintenance and a handful of administrators. All other services would be contracted out to third parties at an undefined cost.
By incorporating, the group argues, Vail residents will finally have a voice in decisions affecting them.
Residents opposed to incorporation efforts are critical of the hypothetical budget, calling it unrealistic.
