Letter: School board proves itself to be irrelevant

It's interesting to see how creative some people are in feeding from the public trough, but more than $10,000 of local school funds/property taxes each year come from my pocket.

So, please publish how much total expenditures go with this position (salary, benefits, car, travel, seminars and junkets, etc.).

And publish the job description. In 25 years as human resources director for two major corporations, and doctorate work on business and organizational development, I've never heard of a "director of innovation."

This position is unique, but the position that taxpayers are asked to assume in Beaufort County is too familiar.

From your coverage of the issue of hiring his wife, the attitude of the school superintendent is "take it or leave it, taxpayers."

If this debacle goes uncorrected, then I suggest the school board is irrelevant and unnecessary, should be disbanded, and their salaries and expenses go to paying for the position of "director of innovation."

You also have to hand it to the guy who hired the superintendent's wife.

He is innovation personified.

Jerry Floyd

This story was originally published September 19, 2015 at 8:36 PM with the headline "Letter: School board proves itself to be irrelevant."