Capacity crowd turns out for Arizona Attorney General’s Flagstaff Town Hall on April 15

Story courtesy of www.MosaicNAZ.org

Editor’s note: Click on links to see video clips from the event.

By MosaicNAZ.org

FLAGSTAFF — With issues ranging from federal funding cuts to local health care, highway construction, homeless shelters, food services, wildfire and flooding prevention projects to staffing cuts at local universities and national parks — Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes said she wanted to hear it all so she can include the feedback of myriad lawsuits being filed by nearly two dozen state attorneys general against the Trump administration.

Coconino County residents provided that information and much more during Mayes’s Flagstaff Town Hall held on April 15, 2025, at the Coconino Center for the Arts. With a capacity-stretching standing-room-only crowd approaching 300, local government officials, former government workers, community service providers and others shared a variety of stories on how the administration financial cuts and funding delays have impacted the region.

The most heart-wrenching stories came from local residents and veterans who are on the verge of or have lost their government jobs and are forced to fend for themselves as they try to pay for housing, food and medical services, with many saying they will be forced to leave Flagstaff and region to find jobs elsewhere.

Coconino County District 1 Supervisor and Vice Chair Patrice Horstman introduced Mayes telling the audience that Mayes wants to hear their stories.

“We have a voice. Let’s use it,” Horstman said.

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Also see:

• Great Circle Media — Attorney General Kris Mayes Hosted Town Hall Meeting Tuesday Night
• KNAU — ‘Attempted coup on our democracy,’ AG Kris Mayes tells packed Flagstaff town hall
• Office of Attorney General Kris Mayes (Facebook) — A heartbreaking story from yesterday’s town hall in Flagstaff
• Office of Attorney General Kris Mayes — Attention Arizona: Report Continued Funding Issues