The city of Sedona has fired its housing manager just before an important election to determine the city’s housing plan for the future.
Shannon Boone was hired in late September 2021 as Sedona’s housing manager Sedona and was contracted out to nearby Cottonwood.
The city's communications director Lauren Browne says she’s now been fired because she didn’t meet the professional standards laid out in Sedona’s employee manual. Specifically, she was quoted by the local Red Rock News in an email to the city’s housing advisory group calling opponents of a plan “short-sighted selfish bullies.”
Under Boone’s tenure, the city embarked on a so-called Safe Place to Park program that is intended to help locally employed workers to live in their cars at a city-owned park. Opponents deem it a homeless camp. They completed a referendum that puts the future of the proposed camp in the hands of voters in November.
Cottonwood's Ryan Bigelow said that city had opted not to renew its contract for her position before it came up in July.
