(Editor's Note: This letter was originally sent to Superintendent of Schools Herman Sirois, Levittown Property Owners Association, Senator Kemp Hannon and Assemblyman David McDonough and is being printed here at the author's request.)

This is a follow-up to my previous note about saving money suggestions. First, I would like to say that as of this morning, Friday, April 18, 2008, the light over the Division Avenue Softball Field has been turned off, also, I did not see the yellow lights - which are attached to the building - on this morning at 8 a.m. I am not at this point counting the weeks and days that it took from my first report - never mind that we are not asking, "how long did the situation exist before I reported it?"

However, on the Summit Lane School - main parking lot, west side facing the football field, there were still a bunch of the yellow lights on at that time. So now there are questions:

Since I did not make a fuss about these lights, is that why they were not turned off? Hopefully, you are having someone work on this issue.

• I hope that the questions that are going through my mind are not true:

• I guess now I have to go to each and every school facility and report on each before anything will be done.

• I guess they (the administration and employees) just did not get the point that the action of saving money belongs to every employee of the district - especially when every year you come back to the taxpayer and ask for more money (and a lot of money).

I am copying our state legislators because maybe it is time that they got involved and helped us to slay this dragon of ever-increasing school taxes and I am sure there will be a lot of finger pointing about "the who" is responsible for this burden. I have included the previous letter at the bottom as a history.

Thomas C. Caro

Storefront closings, residential For Sale signs, company layoffs, increase cost of food. Just a few signs of the struggling economy, no doubt. Sadly, this is the world we live in today. Contributing to make matters worse is the ever increasing school tax situation.

The Levittown School District recently was promised close to $2 million in State Aid that the Board of Education is choosing to withhold. This is in addition to an unapplied reserve fund that the district held on June 30, 2007 in excess of $31 million.

Last Sunday's New York Times featured an article on State Aid, which stated: An extra $2.5 million in state aid in Farmingdale will mean the budget on which residents vote next month can keep the tax levy at less than 2 percent, said John Lorentz, the superintendent.

"We were already confident with the educational programs we had included in the budget," he said. "Now we owe it to the community to lessen their financial burden."

Levittown School District Superintendent Dr. Herman Sirois should take a cue from our neighboring district and do the right thing by the taxpayers of this community.

Kathleen Vaughan Ware