The front-page article in Sunday’s Monitor was a good reminder of how taxpayers, in this case Chris O’Connor, have the right, duty, and power to challenge questionable decisions by our elected officials. Last month, we saw how public opinion, expressed at meetings, by email, in letters, and through a petition, caused the City Council to put the brakes on the clubhouse project at Beaver Meadow, whose ludicrous price tag would have further strained already overburdened taxpayers.

I urge the people of Concord not to give up on challenging and reversing the school board’s decision to build the new middle school at Broken Ground rather than at Rundlett, not only because of the absurd costs, but also because Rundlett was the clear choice of the majority of the public, despite the school board’s defiance of them.

Robert Maccini

Concord