Date: 2/8/2023
I read with great interest your article on the front page of The Reminder. None of it surprised me. When our state was awash in COVID money and gas prices were crippling families they voted down in a VOICE vote in order to remain anonymous, not to temporarily suspend the gas tax. As a regional school, transportation costs for students is by law, to be reimbursed 100 percent by the state, which they have not done since 2018. The amount they decide to appropriate is the amount you will get, period. It's also a sad state of affairs when your school system has to import students for the money to make ends meet. The solution? Number one. Turn off the lights. Number two. Keep the tens of thousands dollars for educating not equity agenda. Number three. Tap into the hundreds of millions of dollars your elected officials are spending on the migrant crisis they created. Oliveira wants HWRSD officials and citizens to form a coalition and beat down his door for help. Then maybe. Clearly there is no money problem. Only a priority problem. You get what you vote for.
Eric Forni
Hampden
