Seneca Valley’s school board acknowledged receipt of more than 220 letters between its two meetings in October, with many of those criticizing the $165 million plan to transform the intermediate high school campus and construct a new 1,600-seat performing arts center.

“Please do not continue with the new construction,” one of the letters reads. “We are on a fixed income and will not be able to afford to pay your taxes. Where will it stop? If you run old people out of the district, who will pay your high taxes?”

The Butler Eagle, through a right-to-know request, received copies of 19 of the letters that were received at a work session Oct. 6. An additional right to know request for 205 more letters received ahead of the Oct. 13 board meeting is pending.

District officials maintain the pr

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