The Sun Journal applauds the efforts of Auburn City Councilor Ron Potvin and his subsequent attempt to save a few dollars by moving assistant principal positions within the system to fill a vacant position (March 7). Cost savings to taxpayers: a few thousand dollars and less supervision and support for children.

What is being overlooked in that political smoke screen could be a real cost saving for Auburn taxpayers, to the tune of several hundred thousand dollars.

East Auburn School, while having a rich history in the system as a wonderful neighborhood school, has been taken off the radar screeen for Potvin and some other members of the school committee. Members are more interested in maintaining promises to not consider folding that small school into other, newer elementary schools. That failure to consider real savings comes with a more significant cost to taxpayers and the greater population of children in Auburn.

The editorial went on to imply that Auburn, and Lewiston, are somehow exercising an exemption from the state’s consolidating efforts.

On the contrary, those are large districts that are being required to continue to cut costs as well. Hence, the dilemma. Is the East Auburn School to be saved with a resulting expense to all of the other schools in the system?

I want to see where the true shakeup lies, and where Potvin’s loyalties lie – with cost savings to reduce administration or with true cost savings that could reap more benefits for the city.

Jacqueline Misenheimer, Poland