Recently I wrote an open letter to the school board and the advisory committee requesting that several questions be answered respecting the implementation of the bond issue. Copies of this letter were forwarded to all concerned.

At the school board meeting held on Feb. 8, John Sullivan answered two of the questions relating to the "locking in" of the interest rate and the safety of the children; however, he stated in open forum that he had no intention of answering the remaining questions in writing. Such behavior is typical of governmental bureaucracy. Sullivan, you may recall, answered all of my letters before the bond issue was passed. Now that they have your money they have little interest in keeping you advised.

In the next three years we will learn whether the members of the advisory committee were "Godsends" or "short-visioned, overzealoused do-gooders" who siphoned off more money than the village needed to spend, in view of the economic problems facing it. Bond and tax money will be needed to resurrect Franklin Ave., the life-line of this community. More than half of the $40,000,000 could have been used for that purpose as well as financing our own volunteer ambulance corps equipped with defibrillators.

What do you think?

Joseph A. Calamari