Tax money should be spent wisely

Regarding the Oct. 25 story titled “$55,000 worth of work OK'd for stadium fixes”:

Two years ago, the Linn-Mar school board chose to spend around $100,000 extra to go with a Portland cement concrete (PCC) lot instead of an equivalently designed asphalt option. This PCC option did not include a drainage system or stone base as the soil engineering report recommended. The asphalt option did not include the drainage system either but did include a drainable stone base that would have provided some help with water migrating under the pavement. I see now that the school district needs to spend $55,000 to repair this lot because of water under the slab.

So now they have spent more than $155,000. How much more will they have to spend in the future as this pavement deteriorates prematurely?

Who is keeping their eye on these people? I do not live in the Linn-Mar district but my company does have facilities there and we pay property taxes. We would like to know that our tax money is being spent wisely. I do not see evidence of this.

DeWayne Heintz

Cedar Rapids