Dear Editor,

The Monroe County grand jury report on the state of affairs at Pleasant Valley School District is a bombshell, but the information contained in that report should come as no surprise to those district taxpayers who’ve been paying attention all along.

The prevalent country club “members only” clique among the district’s board of directors and upper administration is well-known and well-established. It’s also reason number one in the argument for board director term limits. Some of the district’s directors have been on the school board for so long they run the district as their own personal fiefdom — fiduciary responsibility to the taxpayer be damned. As a result, the excesses and outright waste of taxpayer dollars is epidemic.

Just recently, one of the board’s subcommittees announced the need to raise property taxes. This, when the district should be working diligently to reduce taxes. Instead of taking a unified public stand against the idea of any tax increases, the board is spending its time publicly quibbling over who’s the biggest bully.

Their behavior would be comical if not for the fact these people have the power as an elected body to legally extort money from district property owners, and to decide how and when that tax money is spent.

Patricia Foucault

Kresgeville