Letters

Last year, at around this same time, Tom Mager, the Amagansett School District treasurer, stated that they were “committed” to spending. Just like the Amagansett School appears to be this year. It was still odd then, as now, that the school needed to excess four teachers and pierce the cap. To only proceed to doubling noninstructional staff this year.

The new hires are about $900,000. How much did the Maria Dorr hearing actually cost? Remember, they paid Dorr to sit home for 13 months, plus lawyers, hearing officers, even rumors of private investigators. How many people are receiving what amounted to gifts of public funds? This is a minimum estimate of $300,000.

The school staff is roughly at about 40 employees. It is still odd to me no one has taken issue that Michael Rodgers initiated the Maria Dorr hearing; met with Richard Loeschner, the interim superintendent, seemingly daily last year; sat in every day of the hearing; was the one — not Loeschner — who found the witnesses, beginning in July, days before the hearing; was never called to testify; was the co-president of the union and will now negotiate the new teacher’s contract. All this during his ascension and aftermath. The School Board also now has four law firms on the payroll.

Still here.

Joe Karpinski

Amagansett