Finding Common Ground And Common Sense. Karen McClelland welcomes Yavapai County Supervisor Nikki Check to the show. They begin by discussing the hiring of an additional sheriff’s deputy to help control the growing problem of OHVs.
Addressing the possibility of public lands being sold as part of the fraudulent budget reconciliation bill,” Check explains, “We have a true recreation economy here. I mean every time a mountain biker comes to do their hobby from elsewhere they drop about, you know, somewhere over $400 each time they come. So, we really have an economic input here, and it will be disturbed if the lands eligible for sale around Sedona go to auction.”
She adds, “If it passes, there’s still work to be done on the ground at the local level and the county level. You know, we’re land use managers, and so we have the ability to zone uses. And so, I think that’s one of the facets that we can work with should this pass. But I really don’t like the way it was put together.”
During the show, Check discusses a wide range of other issues, including water rights, agriculture, vineyards, the upper Verde River, health care, even air traffic.