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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHistorical Records - The Arizona Territorial (110) V to fight incorporation, Mr. and Mrs. Page 4, The Arizona Territorial, August 29, 1974 Taxpayer would turne.ur le with rage. p p g. Having lost the court battles, Tucson off II, and Pima County politicians set out [R, on still another tact. They enlisted the o powerful down- town p u assistance of the two down town newspapers and set out to des- troy incorporation attempting to con- vince the good people of Oro Valley that Walker clamps down incorporation would raise taxes. And, unfortunately, by innuendo and half-facts they have nearly accomplished what E.S. "Bud" Walker, chairman of the all else has failed to do. Not one fact county board of supervisors, doesn't has been presented, however, to prove feel his group is getting the whole that taxes would, indeed, be raised. story. He complained last week that he It might have been different if the cannot determine what Pima County tax residents of Oro Valley had been left money is being spent for, who is wasting to resolve the issue on their own. It it and who is responsible for all the is too much, however, to expect any bureaucratic, wasteful shennigans a- project to succeed against the entren- round the courthouse. ched political power of Pima County • Good for him. the City of Tucson, and the downtown What brought the wrath of Walker newspapers. The outsiders have finally down on the bureaucracy was the fact managed to confuse the issue nearly that apparently no one was aware that beyond recognition. But, that's par for the county was obligated to repay the course. When all else fails, muddy ASARCO and Citizens Utilities about up the waters. $800,000 due because of improper tax Theowers in Pima County collections. He wasn't too happy either p have said on several occasions that self- that the county was also due some government was not the thingthat Oro money from Tucson Gas and Electric and didn't even have the moxie to ask Valley residents really wanted -- that they just didn't know what they were for it. gettinginto. Now'mind you, these are As a result the county must boost the same powers who were given hell the tax rate to cover the mistakes of the last week bySupervisors Chairman vast county bureaucracy. p Bud Walker (see above) for throwing County taxpayers should encourage awaytaxpayers money. And if the down- Walker to persue the investigation y town editorial writers are so gifted, relentlessly. Taxes are far enough whyin the world didn't theydigout out of hand without adding the bumbl- the story of tax overpayments by ut- ing, stupid mistakes witnessed recent- ilities and mines and the moneydue ly. the county from Tucson Gas and El- ectric? Give it a chance Residents of Oro Valley could do even worse than remain under the polit- What else can possibly happen in the ical control of Pima County. They continuing saga of Oro Valley? could be annexed by the City of Tucson. Surely every legal maneuver, polite- The groundwork has been laid for such cal ploy, and what-have-you has been action and the area could be annexed attempted, discussed or implemented without obtaining one signature from the since incorporation talk began some area approving the action. four years ago. Certainly there are enough talented Opponents of incorporation have spent people in Oro Valley to do a better thousands of taxpayer dollars battling job of running its government than th_e the proposition through the courts. If guys downtown have done with the county it were possible to determine from the and city. bureaucracy the total amount in legal There are and they should be given the fees paid to city and county legal staffs opportunity. gi Arizona Territorial Arizona Territorial was with the same degree want to know what hap- W. Orange Grove ='d. 1 W. Orange Grove Rd. of dedication that I un- pened. T►cson. AZ 85704 / Tucson, Arizona 85704 dertook to serve as Town De. Editor: Clerk--without pay. If you consider yourself To .rr is huma Dear Editor: ' Then I read your to be a gentleman than you It s INNS what :ffect the Open letter to Mayor statement in the Arizona should have at least told TV new media ave on ourDailyStar: "The Town has me privatelythat you were mind. J .t en I had Holford decided to hire a town clerk dissatisfied with my erased t',•/ past ad- to handle its finances volunteer services.v ces. If you ministratio, from my I have had over 15 years because the volunteer feel you were misquoted, mind, I %ii.\,an article experience as a secretary " t s sem isn't working." The our brar for yg then you should make. a renaming/our y with the Employment obvious inference is that I, public apology to ease the e pres ,dents p gy my Security Commission and the volunteer, am not embarrassment. That secreta . Stearns Roger Corporation working or that I am in- would be the honorable Cone atulations o our plus four years with my competent. You have new 'ormat. We fi I it p thing to do. present employers. I am humiliated me publicly. I ease:r to read and en .y. proud of my long record of have received many, many Ethel W.Carreon G i dys Lesson excellent performance telephone calls from Town Clerk, 5', E. McMillan Dr. with those employers. It relatives and friends who Oro Valley.