Last night the Friends of Pottstown Public Education candidates Judyth Zahora, Mary-Beth Lydon and Andrew Kefer took their places as members of the Pottstown School Board. The three candidates were able to win school director seats in the November election, despite Mr. Hylton’s attempts to sway the voting public with his high-gloss, smear-tactic postcards. Pottstown voters were not taken in a second time by the eleventh hour negative campaigning waged by Tartan Tom’s political action committee, Citizens For Responsible Government. Citizens For Responsible Government is run out of Mr. Hylton’s Chestnut Street home aka Mount Olympus.
It would seem Pottstown is getting tired of Mr. Hylton’s meddling in our affairs. The borough was the first group to untangle themselves from Mr. Hylton’s death-grip involvement by making the Shade Tree Commission obsolete and taking control of Pottstown’s shade trees. Mr. Hylton also lost his support and was not returned to the Planning Commission after twelve disastrous years which brought us revolutionary concepts like back-in angle parking.
Now it would seem Mr. Hylton’s grip on the school board has been pried loose by the election of the Friends of Pottstown Public Education block of candidates. Last night, Judyth Zahora was elected President of the Pottstown School Board. Mrs. Zahora is not unfamiliar with this role as she was President before. Robert Hartman was sworn in as Vice-President. While Mr. Hartman was not a Friends of Pottstown Public Education candidate, his actions show he is very much like-minded.
Now that sanity has been restored to the school board and Mr. Hylton has been neutralized, we can look forward to fiscally responsible decisions being made. We can also look forward to transparency and accountability being returned with the dissolving of the Neighborhood Schools Committee, Mr. Hylton being removed as sole “liaison” on the $15 million renovation project and the mandatory use of school district email to conduct business! No more “secret” conversations between select school board members or the board being controlled by one person. We elect nine people for a reason! The job is too large for any one person, even if they are a god-like being of superior intelligence, with a penchant for plaid.
We congratulate Mrs. Zahora and Mr. Hartman. We wish them much success, along with the other new members of the school board. The task is daunting, but we voted you into these positions because we have faith and confidence you will make the best decisions for the education of our children and the fiscal health of our school district and borough.
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