Was she hiding from the Sedona Mayor and Council?
Conspicuous by her absence from the September 27, 2016 Sedona City Council meeting on the “update” on Yavapai Community College was Yavapai President Penelope Wills. Instead of showing up and answering questions directly from the Mayor and City Council on the record about the future of the College, she sent Vice President Clint Ewell and Ms. Heather Mulcare. Ms. Mulcare is a College staff member and Verde Valley native. The experience for Wills when appearing in Sedona has been to observers as making her “uncomfortable.”
VP Clint Ewell, of course, is not the last word on anything in the College. But he’s a likable guy.
This is not the first time Wills’ has skipped Sedona.
Two years ago Wills presented her annual update to most of the cities and towns in Yavapai County. However, she omitted showing up in Sedona and didn’t bother to send a representative. She was later chastised for this oversight by a member of the Sedona City Council at a Governing Board meeting. A year ago she showed up in Sedona and had to apologize (without explanation) for “missing” Sedona with her update a year earlier.
The one way to stay off the record, is to stay away from meetings where you are going to be asked hard questions. One suspects that Wills did not want to be on the record in Sedona September 27.