Public being kept totally in the dark about location, purpose or amount of taxpayer funds being used to purchase these properties
Yavapai Community College has gone into the land purchasing business in a big way during the last few weeks. Recall that on February 24, 2023, the College District Governing Board held a two-hour closed door executive meeting focusing on purchasing land in Prescott Valley and leasing land in the Verde Valley. Following the session, the Board issued a vague statement in the form of a motion, unanimously approved, telling the staff to move as directed in the closed door session. The public was left in total darkness about what was happening.
Now, a little over a month later, the College is again looking to purchase more land, this time in Prescott. Like the February meeting, the public received no information about the Prescott purchase at this April meeting. When the Board convened in public, the staff was ordered to proceed as directed in the secret session. The public was again left in the dark.
So far, the Prescott-based executives have kept quiet about the amount of taxpayer money to purchase the Prescott Valley property, where it is located, or its precise purchase. It also has yet to learn what property the Community College is leasing in the Verde Valley, the amount of taxpayer money being used to pay for the lease, or the purpose. Likewise, the public has no information about the Prescott land purchase.
It would appear that all of the new land will mostly be paid for by County taxpayers from their primary property taxes.
