(Ed. Note: The following letter was sent to Dr. Sirois, Superintendent of the Levittown School District and is printed here at the author's request.)

Earlier this year I had sent to you a note identifying that the constant 7 percent school budget increases are intolerable and unacceptable. I also had some suggestions for you on how you might lead the school district employees to identify various ways of saving money for the taxpayers with real tax reductions. Shortly thereafter I received a letter from you indicating that you would take action on these suggestions.

Now that the summer is almost over and with a new school year almost upon us - have you any thoughts and plans on implementing some changes that would save the taxpayers some money?

Well, the other day I was again at the Division Avenue fields and since I was not able to use the track (due to the ungreening of the football field), I was running the perimeter and went past the tennis courts. Well now I am beginning to wonder when you are going to ask the taxpayers to foot the bill for either a major repair or an entire replacement. Well again I question why the maintenance department didn't use some vegetation killer and a bit of a patch repair product so that the courts would not have been destroyed so prematurely due to poor maintenance processes.

I'd like to know why this incompetent stewardship of taxpayer facilities was allowed to happen and what you intend to do to change this attitude of waste.

Tom Caro