To the editor:

The recent PCC newsletter provides a detailed article on the proposed school bond issue and some of its history and implications. The picture is not pretty.

To muddy the waters even further, the article claims that the public would get a chance to ask questions about the proposed bond issue “before final details were set.” The article then goes on to say, “Cost and scope of the bond can and will be adjusted after the election.”

That is like closing the barn door after the horse got away.

The fact of the matter is that if we don’t approve the bond issue now, the work will still have to be done at a later date when more of “THE DONALD’S” inflation takes effect.

The PCC newsletter touches briefly on the police station overrun. There have been many more through the years.

Let’s hope we can get this one right. Portsmouth has a tough history on major capital work.

Philip Driscoll

Portsmouth