I attended the School Board meeting Aug. 16. I appreciated the valid questions that were being asked by board members regarding our school district’s finances. Even more important since, according to Azauditor.gov, Fountain Hills Unified School District has 54 deficiencies for noncompliance with the Uniform of Financial Records as of June 2022. The letter sent to the district is dated May 24, 2023, available at Az auditor.gov.

I was tolerating several people around me making underhanded comments when questions were being raised. They were loud enough for me and others to hear. Several seemed to be in a group and were feeding off of each other.

I was totally shocked when the one gentleman expressing the most comments got up to address the board and was actually a school employee. He could not have been nicer when he personally addressed the board but that was not the case when he was in the back of the room making underhanded comments when valid questions were being asked.

At one point one of the board members reminded them she had been elected by the residents of Fountain Hills and she is doing her job.