Taxpayers should punt on turf idea

It's one thing to implement programs to help our kids learn the three “R's” or to improve our disastrous drop-out rates. But it is quite another to ask the local taxpayers for additional taxes to fund the Auburn school district's grandiose plan of refurbishing Holland Stadium or the high school with artificial turf.

We realize that being on this non-paid school board is #(for most members#) a noble cause. However, I believe that many board members, once elected, leave their common sense at the door. It must be the phosphorus, etc., in the Owasco Lake water, right?

Yes, “replacing windows at the middle and high schools with double-pane glass and a leaking roof at the high school” does seem to make sense. But artificial turf?