Acting as the board of directors for the Cottonwoods Maintenance District, the members of the Town Council approved a tentative annual budget for the district at a special meeting on May 4. The tentative budget for the 2021/2022 fiscal year is $18,381. The budget includes $12,000 to paint the perimeter wall of the neighborhood at Saguaro and Grande boulevards. This amount will come from reserves collected in prior years. The budget includes $4,800 in annual landscape maintenance costs, plus $1,280 for the reserve fund for future wall painting. The town will collect, via a property tax collected by Maricopa County, $6,381 from approximately 58 property owners in the neighborhood, or $110.01 each.