The grant funded a position in the Vail School District to meet these goals and initiatives were undertaken.

Vail Vision

After the grant funding ended, the group still felt that more was needed for the Vail Community.  In 2010, several key leaders from the Vail area were brought together to answer these questions:

   1) Where or What is Vail?
   2) What values does Vail desire to hold and preserve?
   3) What is Vail's vision for the future? 

Voice for Vail

To preserve and protect the goal of the 2010 Vail Vision document, VCAB began a long process of research into various governance models.  Meetings were held with other municipalities, community councils, and the Arizona League of Cities.  From these meetings, VCAB determined that there were five potential paths:

   1)  Create a Town of Vail
   2)  Create a Community Council but remain unincorporated
   3)  Create an Improvement District to preserve key elements in Vail
   4)  Annex Vail into the City of Tucson
   5)  Do Nothing

Advantages and Disadvantages of each of these were developed.  On April 11,2011, these were presented to the Vail community at the "Voice for Vail Town Hall".  An overwhelming majority of attendees believed that incorporation was the best way to preserve and protect Vail's values.

Incorporate Vail

At this point VCAB was not an independent tax exempt agency.  It was still under the tax exemption of the Vail School District and the original grant.  While efforts had been underway to obtain tax exempt status, the process was long, expensive, and complicated.

Therefore, a splinter organization formed separate from the Vail Community Action Board.  With VCAB's blessing, several members of the Vail for Voice committee left VCAB and started an organization with the sole purpose of incorporating Vail.  This group identified a boundary, developed a feasibility plan, met with various agencies, and then led to Proposition 403- Vail Incorporation held on November 5, 2013.  The measure did not pass.

Final Days

After Proposition 403 failed, the Vail Community Action Board still had a charge.  The original Voice for Vail document was still a goal worth pursuing.  However, the loss took the wind out of VCAB's sails.

Members left VCAB because, ultimately, their desire to be a part of VCAB was because of incorporation.  While not a bad thing, other groups began to form in Vail overlapping VCAB's sphere of influence. These groups did not want to work with VCAB as they saw VCAB as the force behind incorporation and they were not in favor.  After thousands of hours and thousands of dollars raised, many VCAB members were simply worn out.

Ultimately, VCAB realized that it is very difficult for a volunteer organization to represent Vail. VCAB wasn't an elected organization to represent Vail, so there was no accountability to all the Vail residents. As a volunteer organization, there simply was not enough money to adequately fund the mission.

In May, 2014, the VCAB Executive Committee decided it was time for VCAB to end.  All funds were divided into other organizations in the Vail community and they ceased to function.

On a side note.  As a member of VCAB, and president during its last year, I am very grateful to everyone who spent many hours and sacrificed so much for the Vail Community.  Perhaps in the future, another organization will arise and accomplish what VCAB could not do.  This website is dedicated to laying the groundwork. - David Hook