I have watched and listened to the Sullivan West School Board justify the sale of the Narrowsburg campus for use as a facility that has no place in the center of our town as their fiduciary responsibility. I am wondering where that sense of fiduciary responsibility was when they raised the salary of our former superintendent, Ken Hilton, during his final year in that capacity by $53,826 or about 33%. This information is available through “See through New York,” an organization that gathers and reports on the salaries of personnel working in any public entity in our state. I suggest that readers check out that site for their own edification. The taxpayers of the district will be saddled with his enhanced pension for as long as he lives. The amount of this raise, incidentally, is approximately $5,000 more than the median household income of our county. Something does not add up.

Tom Prendergast

Narrowsburg, NY