Reader Opinion: Budget responsibilities

Reader Opinion: Budget responsibilities

I found the Dispatch article about the recent School Board meeting very enlightening. I fully support the efforts of directors Dondelinger, Etterman and Heidmann to fulfill the Board’s promise of transparency, including the cost of staff salaries and benefits. Most eye opening was Director Speer’s comment, “I just don’t think that a public forum to do that is doing a service to our unions.” I never realized that she sees the Boards’ mission as p…