Managing Editor Christopher Fox Graham argues “Verde Valley tax dollars provide more than a third of his college’s budget, ergo, we should have a third of the programs we pay for”
Managing Editor Sedona Redrock News, Christoper Fox Graham
Sedona RedRock News Managing Editor Christoper Fox Graham took strong issue with the views of Yavapai Community College’s Fourth District representative, Chris Kuknyo, who made them known at the November 16 Governing Board meeting held at the Career and Technical Education Center located at the Prescott airport. This was Editor Graham’s second editorial based on comments made by Governing Board members at that meeting. In this editorial, published December 12, Editor Graham argued that “Kuknyo fails to grasp taxes are public’s money” when discussing the Verde Valley.
At one point during the November 16 meeting Graham noted that Kuknyo had expressed dismay with Third District Paul Chevalier’s routine effort to ask questions related to the impact a Community
College program may have on the Verde Valley (or the fact one did not exist there). “It makes me not want to help and just push away and concentrate on the other stuff,” Kuknyo said.
Editor Graham responded to Kuknyo writing that he:
“fails to comprehend that Verde Valley tax dollars provide more than a third of his college’s budget, ergo, we should have a third of the programs we pay for.
Yet, how would Kuknyo’s `sudden decision’ to ignore the Verde Valley’s concerns be any different than the last 40 years of the community college ignoring, cheating, short-changing and stealing tax dollars and programs from the Verde Valley to benefit the Prescott side?
Editor Graham also wrote that:
“The previous community college president and her then-board picked a fight with the Verde Valley a decade ago, and in so doing lost a huge land endowment that went to the Pima County-based University of Arizona instead and faced a Verde Valley secession drive that only diminished with the president’s retirement and Chevalier’s election. The risk of secession still looms if ignorant board members want to revive abuse.
“Kuknyo is impressed by the Verde Valley wine center at Yavapai College as well as “… the food-makin’ place …,” which we can only assume is what the officials like Kuknyo who run the board of a higher education institution call the “Sedona “Culinary Arts Program.”
“The wine center is in the Verde Valley because Prescott college officials can’t physically steal and move the land the Verde Valley vineyards sit on.”
There is much more to Editor Graham’s editorial. You can read it in its entirety by clicking here: http://www.redrocknews.com/2021/12/12/yavapai-college-board-member-kuknyo-fails-to-grasp-taxes-are-publics-money/