There’s nothing so comforting as reading the Record and Post week after week, and deriving a real sense of historical perspective. For example, the front page of October 16th’s Record shows the smiling face of a former Amityville School Board Trustee (the community booted her out of office last May after one disastrous term) taking credit for a donation of school bags by Costco to the Amityville School District, with a value of about $2,000. Fast forward to the editorial of October 23rd’s Record, Work At ASD Park Avenue Complex is Criminal.

Those of us taxpayers who follow the School District affairs are well able to put two and two together and come up with some interesting conclusions. The former School Board Trustee mentioned above was a member of the majority of the Board which sat on its hands and refused to act or even seek legal advice while the Park Avenue project went bad. And if that isn’t costing us taxpayers enough, her efforts to remove MMAC School Board trustees cost taxpayers almost $50,000! Those of us at the School Board meeting two weeks ago got the good news that the New York State Commissioner of Education dismissed her case on its merits as well as on technical grounds.

Do you think $2,000 worth of donation (for things the District wouldn’t have bought anyway) makes up for the millions we’re into for the Park Avenue mess.

Sal Perricone

Amityville School District

Watchdog Committee