Who chose the questions for the Sanitary District forum? Only three questions were asked of the two incumbents and the two challengers.

The first question couldn’t have been better phrased to help out the incumbents. “Tell us about your wastewater experience.” Of course the two, Reski and Dudash, have experience by the very fact that they are already on the Sanitary Board; Reski for the past 12 years.

However, the other question revealed that the board members actually have very little to do with the operation of the plant. Reski, himself, admitted that the board deals with the money and allocates it as the manager says it’s needed and does not have anything to do with the operation of the plant.

In that case, it doesn’t matter how much past experience these candidates have in wastewater. What matters the most is a good financial background and considering that our bills have consistently gone up, looks like we need board members who are better able to manage the budget.

Which brings me to the question of why the former manager, Ron Huber, is still being retained at $70 an hour after the new manager, Dana Trompke, was hired? Huber even commented in a Times article that Trompke “is probably the better engineer of the two.” (Times August 9, 2017)

It’s time for a change. We need a citizen advocate on the board who will be more fiscally responsible with our tax dollars. We need Tony Finocchio on the Sanitary Board.