Comment showed lack of understanding

A recent news report said that after CUSD 220 Chief Financial Officer Gary Frisch presented his numbers, he expressed concerns that the board could have been less frugal while preparing the budget,

“For the 2011-2012 budget, we drastically reduced the number of purchased services and utilities down to $2.5 million, property insurance decreased and repair maintenance costs were reduced,” Frisch said. “So I think we were a little aggressive in 2011-2012 by slashing the budget”.

I was shocked. The budget that has raised by $35 million since 2007, in the time when our biggest financial debacle has occurred, and this man thinks the board should have been less frugal? Evidently, Mr. Frisch is overpaid and out of touch with our taxpaying friends and neighbors.

How will the elderly pay who are barely making it now? How about the unemployed who can’t make ends meet? What about the sick and infirm who forego needed medications now? What about the area foreclosures, abandoned homes and those for-sale because owners have upside-down mortgages or can’t afford any tax increase.

Are we trying to devastate the residents of our community in the worst possible financial crisis in this new century? Whatever are these administration employees thinking and how will our school board officials respond to this very important issue?

P. Denise Israel

Barrington Hills