The cleanup crew is continuing its laborious work in the San Mateo Union High School District. A new administrative team, led by superintendent David Miller and his budget chief Liz McManus, and two new members of the board of trustees have embarked on what promises to be a long, tough exercise in bringing the district back to fiscal stability. It’s not going to be an easy task by any means. The legacy of the past continues to haunt them. Beginning with the stunning and unanticipated need to rebuild seismically-unsafe San Mateo High School at the beginning of the current decade, the district has been shocked by a series of fiscal challenges, many of them of its own confused making. In a nutshell, the district plunged into budgetary chaos during, and after, the administrations of former superintendents Tom Mohr and Sam Johnson. It is still recovering. And controversy persists. The latest flap involves a plan to increase fees significantly for the use of district facilities. For taxpayers who have watched the district stagger along blindly for years (even as they approved two big construction bond packages), this latest development has been seen as a slap in the face. It’s a public relations disaster. There is some talk that a formula can be found to ease the pain. That would be the prudent thing to do, especially when you consider what the long-suffering public has put up with since 2000.