Dear Editor:
A fact is that taxpayers in Secaucus pay 29.8 percent of their property taxes for the schools. (That’s almost one-third.)
Last year the taxpayers rejected the school budget. Therefore, that school budget was not a “done deal”. The newly-elected Tom Troyer, who opposed the school budget, was now in a position to argue or debate on the issue of how raises for the administrators would benefit children.
This year some of the taxpayers did not bother to vote against the school budget because they learned from last year that it doesn’t make any difference whether it passed or is defeated. So, to quote from Troyer’s published letter of March 31, 2002: “I won the election, they got their raise. Everyone won except the taxpayers.”
Evelyn Benyo