Taxpaying residents of Scottsdale may ponder the Polish literary great Bruno Schulz, who, in "The Night of the Great Season,” explored the existence of “peculiar years, degenerate years onto which, like a sixth little finger on a hand, grows a thirteenth false month."

Those within the city borders may wonder if a “false month” or two was inserted in calendars since 2019.

Six Novembers ago, a Scottsdale City Council that included current councilwomen Solange Whitehead and Kathy Littlefield asked voter approval “authorizing the city to issue and sell up to” $319 million in bonds. The taxpayer money, they said, would fund a whopping 58 projects.

Four years later, one project soaring to nearly five times its original budget was blamed on a “clerical error.”

And, just a few weeks ago, the B

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