Manhasset taxpayers have had enough and now demand an immediate moratorium on school spending. In fact, we want a rollback. To begin with, no bond issue, no salary increases, time for givebacks.

Retrenchment should start from the top with Mr. Bozzomo and all principals leading the way. If they foot-drag and show unwillingness to cooperate with the need for fiscal sanity, then it's time for a change. We should search the rich supply of able administrators eager to labor in the opulent Manhasset system, who are in touch with new economic realities and who are willing to be answerable to the people they serve and not to their detriment.

One out-of-touch proposal, for example, is to move the sixth-graders into the high school population. Whose idea was that? Most parents are strongly opposed to this and want the authors of such an ill-conceived plan to step forward and be accountable.

The board seems to ram through a multi-million dollar referendum on unsuspecting voters, many out of town in February. There is too much expense and future severe tax burdens to decide this issue hurriedly. How cynical can the board be to offer a "sop: to "reshape the plan," when a thorough exhaustive study is in order-one which cannot be coherently presented nor cogently considered by February.

There are too many questions that need answers before we talk about anything else.

• A New York State audit. Where have all the dollars gone?

• A cut-back in school taxes

• Form a financial oversight committee to supervise and regulate spending.

• Explore a second floor addition to Shelter Rock School.

• Pressure Greentree for gift of land for possible elementary school site.

If a referendum is put forth in February, the question might be framed in a more responsible fashion. "Do you give the Manhasset School Board carte blanche to spend your tax money?"

The school district must stop this spending madness and immediately put a halt to all expansion activities and live within the current budget with reasonable cutbacks in some areas. That's what a good superintendent would do. If the present administration cannot live up to the task, then we should expect some resignations.

Sal Miglio