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To the Editor:
Mr. Heidcamp advocated voting against the
first run of the budget and the voters obediently
followed his advice, and the three candidates he
backed for the board were easily elected. For the
second budget vote when he instructed the voters to
vote yes, that's exactly what they did. It seems
that he is now running our school system,
Mr. H. will go to any length to crucify our
superintendent by pointing out the money he spends
for expenses. His poison-pen writes that he spends
"hundreds of thousands of dollars" on his
coast-to-coast expenses. Mr. Rhau came to us with
many years of experience. He controls a forty-four
million dollar enterprise with over three-thousand
students and a large staff; daily there are
problems to be faced and decisions to be made. Mr.
Rhau is an asset to our community and should not be
judged by the money he spends for rental cars,
meals, etc. But, Mr. Heidcamp has done his job and
he has a legion of supporters. He writes that
"there will be new faces on the board after the
next election", and, of course, those new faces
will be those supporting Mr. Heidcamp, so it can be
readily assumed that, regardless of the job he is
doing that the superintendent is on the way out. He
will join the list since 1991 of Hong, Gregory,
Singleton, Peters, and Gottlieb. Since Dan Lee
left, there has been no continuity in our
leadership, which doesn't help in our effort to
have a school system that we can be proud of.
I'm sorry but there is no light at the end of
the tunnel: Mr. Heidcamp controls the switch.
Wesley Maxwell
August 24, 2006
Saugerties Post Star
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