Heated hearing in Eloy
ELOY — A public hearing last week on Eloy’s budget and property tax increase got heated after a couple of residents, along with a councilman, questioned the City Council’s use of funds to attend a conference in Washington, D.C. One councilman later said the complaints had racist overtones.
While the hearing last Thursday was supposed to be about the 2016-17 fiscal year budget, the biggest point of contention was expenses in the 2015-16 fiscal year when five councilmen attended the National Association of Latino Elected Officials conference last month. The total travel expense, which were budgeted a year earlier, was roughly $12,000 all told.
