To The Editor:

The trustee election on Tuesday, January 31 at the Stewart and Stratford Schools is all about one thing: St. Paul’s School. Two residents who are fixated on saving St. Paul’s are challenging Deputy Mayor Nick Episcopia in the East and Trustee Brian Daughney in the Estates.

We need trustees like Episcopia and Daughney who want to keep taxes down while preserving the quality of life in our village. We don’t need single-issue candidates who are determined to save St. Paul’s School no matter what it costs taxpayers.

A few years ago, with assets of over $6 billion, Avalon Bay was going to invest millions of dollars to preserve St. Paul’s School. Avalon Bay was even going to provide additioal tax revenues to the village. Unfortunately, the Committee to Save St. Paul’s (CSSP) attacked the Avalon Bay proposal, our last best hope to save the historic building. Four years later, the CSSP has no right to ask the village homeowners to step in and do what a multi-billion dollar corporation was prepared to do.

Nell Gubner