Letter: Reilly is best choice for LTUSD

To the community:

It is imperative that Larry Reilly be elected to the LTUSD school board and serve as Trustee for Area 1. Larry is without question the most qualified candidate in this race. Our school district is facing some tough decisions over the next few years if it is to continue [Superintendent Jim] Tarwater’s tremendous vision that he articulated years ago. This will require real leadership and a real knowledge of our community. A successful school board member must have his/her thumb on the pulse of the community he/she serves. And this connection can only be the result of years of living here.

Larry Reilly has been an active, involved, and model member of the South Lake Tahoe community for 37 years. For every minute of those decades of service, Larry has worked in education. And this work was not limited to the ethereal realm of ideas and testing and consortiums. Larry Reilly’s experience was all that and so much more. Larry was hands-on working with students, parents, and administrators. Larry was part of an educational community that survived, and thrived, in some tough times.

Larry Reilly’s history of leadership as a teacher, coach, and athletic director is well documented. Few people in the South Lake Tahoe educational community can even compare to this man. Larry Reilly is the only sensible choice for the position of trustee 1 on the LTUSD school board. I hope you will join me, former students, parents of former students, business leaders, and educators in putting Larry Reilly’s tremendous knowledge and experience to work for our children. Vote Larry Reilly for trustee 1 on Nov. th.

Derek Allister, South Lake Tahoe