It appears our elected Scarborough town officials seem to have overstepped their bounds.

I agree with the position that Current Editor Brendan Moran made in his Sept. 14, editorial. Scarborough officials need to rethink how they handle projects costing over $400,000. Scarborough citizens voted to have any project over $400,000 be put to the voters at referendum. This is not happening and voters are not getting to vote.

What the Scarborough officials are doing is to circumvent the referendum process by not giving the voters the truth (full disclosure of actual costs) on many new Scarborough projects. They are putting line items in the budgets under $400,000 over several years so the projects won’t go to the voters. Is this even legal? What do they think – that they are smarter than the Scarborough voters so they’ll make sure we never vote on any projects? This is very undemocratic and very un-American.

I’m asking Scarborough officials, elected or otherwise, to please do the right thing and put these projects to referendum, as they should be. I also encourage all citizens to vote for TABOR. We need to get spending under control. If we adopt both of these mechanisms and use them as they were intended, we will be heading Scarborough and Maine in the right economic direction.

Kathy Schuyler

Scarborough