County Comptroller Howard Weitzman rightly criticized the Great Neck Water Pollution Control District for misuse of public funds, as a result of his three-year audit of the district.

However, he is severely wrong in his recommendation that the sewer district consult with officials from the Town of North Hempstead as to how to properly spend taxpayer dollars.

North Hempstead is one of the worst run municipalities on Long Island and, dare I say it, in all of New York State. Its residents are the highest taxed town residents and the town carries by far the highest debt load of any town in New York. North Hempstead is currently mired in a town building department scandal that has seen the waste of millions of town taxpayer dollars while destroying the quality of life of many neighborhoods in the town. Clearly, North Hempstead's officials are the last persons that should be consulted as to how to spend taxpayer's dollars.

Incredibly, Newsday, in its article on this story ("Audit Knocks Sewage District," February 16, 2007) failed to point out that the district commissioner who was quoted in the article, Deena Lesser, is a former elected official in the town and is now the town's highly paid director of Intergovernmental Affairs. If she, as a town official was not watching the store in her capacity as commissioner of the district, why should anyone consult with her or her colleagues in the town about anything?

Peter Cavallaro, Chairman of North Hempstead Republican Committee