Re: "Byelection urged to replace trustees," Sept 29.
The Union of B.C. Municipalities is urging the province to order a vote to elect Cowichan school trustees. And how is this any of UBCM's concern?
We Cowichan voters knew exactly what to expect if we elected trustees who campaigned on a plan to submit an illegal deficit budget. If the board did it, the provincial government would fire them. We all knew that going in.
The renegade five were elected, they voted 5-4 to submit a deficit budget, the board was fired and replaced by an official trustee.
I did not vote for the majority five. Like the provincial government, the minority trustees and the (very courageous) senior administrators, I believed a balanced budget was possible. I was unhappy that the renegade group got elected, but democracy had spoken.
They carried out their pie-in-the-sky promise and got fired. We are now operating without elected trustees, which is not ideal, but we must remember that the people have spoken. And everyone understood the consequences.
I will be satisfied with the official trustee until the 2014 election.
This taxpayer doesn't want another dime spent perpetuating this fiasco. Let's spend our education dollars on education, not lawsuits, legal advice, referendums or unnecessary byelections.
Lori Hamilton
Cobble Hill
