Pickerington Area Taxpayers Alliance

Dear friends and neighbors,

As one member of the Board of Education, I apologize for the recent sign blight perpetrated on this community in the name of the PLSD. Like you, I find this an embarassment.

I have learned that the levy committee bought 2,500 signs, which to say the least is a wanton waste. I was elected to the School Board with only 250 yard signs, half of which disappeared, and a total campaign budget of $1,200. I spent my campaign going door to door talking to voters, which is what the levy committee should do. I hate to think what the levy committee must have spent on this campaign. It pains me to think of PTO funds being misspent in this manner.

I do not know who the levy committee believes they will impress with this stuff. This is why, as I have said before, I stay as far away from that committee as I can. They tend to get just a bit too carried away with their slogans.

I am concerned that many voters may base their decision for or against the levy on the surplus signage, and not on the merits of the issue. For all of the reasons that I have set forth in my previous postings here, I still plan to vote for the levy. I hope that you will as well, even if we all have to hold our noses a bit on this one.

If I have my way (although, as you know, I seldom do), none of this stuff will ever happen again.

Very truly yours,


By Bruce Rigelman

Thanks Bruce

Thanks for another candid and thoughtful posting. I am sorry to say though that the offensive litter perpetrated by another over zealous levy committee is the icing on the cake in my decision to vote against the levy and encourage others to do so, too. Enough is enough. They have wasted the money given to them by the parents of this district frivolously. They have insulted and offended the PTO who donated money towards these signs. They have created an unsafe condition to drivers in several areas by the distraction caused by the conglomeration of signs.

What did they think they could possibly accomplish by this assault? Did they think that the overburdened taxpayers would say that this was a frugal and well-thought expenditure? Or just evidence of more waste and abuse in this city? I know that the committee who executed this blight is not a representative of or employed by the PLSD, but does everyone?

My guess is that I am not the only one who will vote no and persuade others to vote no because of what has happened.