Regarding Mr. Brown's letter to the Los Gatos Weekly-Times (Feb. 25) calling for "better leaders and no new taxes for Union." For those of us with children in the Union School District classrooms, or grandchildren, or nephews, or nieces, or for those of us who care about the equality of education, we strongly support ideas that give way to a more solid educational experience. Measure G will assure funding for our high achieving school district. Most successful school districts have parcel taxes to support them, as does our own neighboring Los Gatos School District. Why would you want anything less for all children?

Kathleen Green

Los Gatos

Disturbing that
questions were
missed by papers

It is extremely disturbing that the questions raised in Kyle Lanza's letter (Los Gatos Weekly-Times, Feb. 25) were overlooked by your paper's staff and also the San Jose Mercury News.

We need local government to be clean. It is disappointing that Los Gatos Weekly-Times rubber-stamped the project without examining every nuance, including those behind-the-scene.

Joanne Hall

Los Gatos

Letter included
inaccurate
statements

Regarding Jeff Brown's recent letter to the Los Gatos Weekly-Times (Feb. 25), which expressed negative comments towards the Union School District leadership— please update yourself with correct information before publicly bashing with inaccurate statements.

Union School District's fiscal concerns are due to the state budget crisis, midyear cuts and likely future cuts. Measure G, the Union School District parcel tax on the March 2 ballot, would place fiscal control back into the district's hands while the state works on its financial crisis and improves our educational funding methods. The majority of district voters are overwhelmingly in favor of this measure.

Playing fields at Union Middle School were not available because of liability issues while construction was being completed. Regarding the Union Middle School gym unavailability to outside basketball teams: the school play cast was enjoying the beautiful new stage and facility, followed by use from Alta Vista Elementary School's play. District students receive priority over outside interests.

Regarding field use at the Howes School site: San Jose Pacific Pony Baseball will be using the fields this spring as they have done for years. The soccer league was offered another district site.

And finally, regarding your continued call to arms against the district leadership—please get involved and work with the leadership to accomplish something positive within our district. You will be pleasantly surprised to find they also want only the very best for our children and community.

Please stop the misinformed complaints to the newspapers. Misinformation is the real injustice. Instead, we invite you to get accurately informed and to work toward the tradition of excellent academic achievement and programs in the Union School District.

Celeste Radanovich

Los Gatos

Article celebrates
young people and
their options

This letter is to commend reporter Sara Hazlewood for the excellent article she wrote about Central County Occupational Center, "Discovering Options," in the Feb. 25 issues of the Los Gatos Weekly-Times. Ms. Hazlewood did an excellent job of portraying the many options open to high school juniors and seniors through the Regional Occupational Center. It is wonderful to see an article that celebrates young people who are doing great things and it is very nice to see such an accurate and comprehensive treatment of our school.

Anyone who is interested in seeing our programs firsthand could attend our open house on March 12. Join us to see what has become of career and technical education in Silicon Valley. For more information, contact us at 408.723.6400. We are located at 760 Hillsdale Ave. (behind the auto dealers).

Linda Luther, Principal

Central County Occupational
Center, San Jose

Town fortunate
to have McNutt
on the council

As co-chair of the campaign committee to elect Diane McNutt, I want to correct the misinformation that was contained in a recent letter to the editor.

Diane's candidacy for town council received widespread support including 129 donations, totaling $20,507 in cash. Five of those donations were at the $1,000 level. All of this information is a matter of public record. Our campaign committee accepted contributions with the understanding that they were supporting Diane's values and vision for the Town of Los Gatos.

I know from personal experience that Diane votes for what she believes is best for Los Gatos, and that her judgments are not based on personal relationships. Last year Diane voted to keep the summer concert series at the Civic Center. I strongly disagreed with her position, and urged the council to return the concerts to Plaza Park. After the vote, I was reminded of what Diane told a group of her supporters shortly after the election. There would be times when she would take positions that we disagreed with, there would be times when she would not vote the way we expected her to—but all her decisions would be thoughtful and reasoned, and not based on who supported her with a contribution.

Diane exemplifies integrity and strong personal ethics. We are fortunate to have her represent us on the town council.

Margaret A. Smith

Los Gatos

Los Gatos needs
more revenue, not
another museum

I read with interest Bruce Franks' letter in the Feb. 18 issue of the Los Gatos Weekly-Times suggesting turning the Chart House Restaurant into a museum to display the many treasures presently in storage. However, a museum would not help bring much-needed "new" money to add to the town coffers. Perhaps the Coggshell mansion can be turned into a bed and breakfast establishment. A B&B would certainly bring in more revenue for the town than a museum. The best of both worlds can be achieved by having a room set up for a small museum dedicated to the history of the building and the Town of Los Gatos as well.

This was just a suggestion and perhaps food for thought.

Lucille Weidman

Los Gatos