Supervisor Boyar seems to be so assured of his local position and reputation, that he didn’t even bother to do the hard work of budgeting in 2015. To me, it seems he added up the numbers, put them on paper, and said ‘that’s the best I can do.’ No determined statement about how they will find a way to reduce the tax hike, no articulate vision of expense reduction and shared sacrifice, no year-long effort to find a way to make the hard choices and decisions required of him.

I personally know the real impacts of his failure to lead; some of my neighbors already have a hard time keeping up.

Maybe the accolades he received from his anti-domestic energy efforts, his excellent column in The River Reporter, his leading role in the Weather Project, and his general position as elder statesmen confused him as to what allowed him these positions of respect and authority—leadership and financial stewardship.

Supervisor Boyar has failed the Town of Highland. Does he care enough to do the hard work to fix his screwup, or will he just continue with the “I-know-best” routine, which in my eyes, has been a total charade?

Charles Petersheim

Eldred, NY