North Castle Board Not Up To The Task

The following letter appeared in the January 22, 2009 Journal News.

The current North Castle Town Board is completely unable to deal effectively with the global financial collapse and its effect upon the local economy. Now is the time to be confronting issues that greatly inflate the cost of government, such as retiree health benefits, wasteful highway spending, inefficient town practices and all around governmental inefficiencies.

However, Supervisor Reese Berman and her control group are victims of the status quo. She refuses to cut any retiree health benefits, even those wrongly given out, opting instead to lay off a cop. She refuses to re-examine the cost of the Town Board members' salary, health and pension benefits, opting instead to increase taxes. It is quite obvious that her prior experience as a school librarian has not prepared her for the fiscal challenges that now confront our nation and our town.

Kerry H. Lutz

Armonk

Mr. Lutz is spot on. Berman has no background to be dealing with multi-million dollar financial issues, especially during these perilous times.