From Joe in Clifton Park:

I just wanted to voice my outrage over the proposed Shenendehowa school district 3.5% tax increase that they’re asking for. There are over 70 jobs that have been lost already by hard working teachers and staff. And yet no cutbacks whatsoever have been taken at the district office.

This is an office that has salaries that range anywhere from $150,000 to a superintendent salary of $220,000.

As a taxpayer in the Shenendehowa School District I paid for the superintendent, in addition to an exuberant salary, his dry cleaning, his gym membership, and even down to a petty $1,200 for a smoking cessation program.

I mean, when is it going to stop? These people are pigs and we pay for a million dollar life insurance on him and yet teachers only receive a life insurance policy equal to half of their salary. Not one job has been lost in the district office and not one cut in pay.

They got their last pay increase and the next one they only put on hold, which is something not many people know, it’s only on hold, they’re going to get it. While other people are losing their jobs and getting nothing and now they ask for 3% percent tax increase on the taxpayers in this district to continue to fund his extravagancies up there.

I think it’s outrageous and I think he should be confronted with these things as well as the public be made to know.