A Focused Direction For Newtown

By CURT CLARK

Published: Oct 02, 2009 12:00 AM

To the Editor:

I am running for the Newtown Legislative Council in District 2 this election year, and my reason for running is to share 29 years of business experience and skills honed by that experience. I want to take my leadership and team-building skills and be part of uniting all our citizens into Team Newtown, and make it âNicer in Newtown.â To work with others to build a focused direction for our town by taking a fresh look at how we do business in Newtown.

I am a Newtown resident since 1987, born in New York City and grew up on Staten Island, N.Y., where I attended public school. After graduating from Port Richmond High School in 1975 I joined the United States Navy.

While serving in the Navy, I was deployed on the submarines USS Permit SSN 594 and USS Pargo SSN 650, and then USS Fulton AS11 in weapons-related capacities and was discharged with an honorable discharge. While serving on the USS Fulton, I was injured and am now a life member of the Disabled American Veterans.

Throughout my life I have been continually placed in leadership positions: as a youth I was a patrol leader in Boy Scouts, and in college I served as class representative; professionally I worked as a project manager, group manager, and department director in information technology. In my professional life, I am dedicated and an accomplished business leader with well-developed management skills, and I bring together diverse stakeholders to complete projects within budget and time targets. As a consultant, I assisted Newtown government staff with the first website for the town and the Newtown Police with upgrading the computer system for the year 2000.

My hobbies include fishing and gardening when time allows. My greatest pleasure is spending time with my wife, Donna, and two daughters, Sarah and Jessica. I earned my college degrees, a bachelor of science in business management, a master of science in management and a master of business administration, at Albertus Magnus College and I am currently teaching at the university level. I encourage citizens to contact me at bedwards02@earthlink.net or 203-994-8719 concerning issues

Robert J. Edwards

79 Mile Hill Road South, NewtownÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â September 29, 2009

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Budget should be cut by 20%, spending $2.65 million dollars per every week forever is absolutely unsustainable ! Do everything possible to Vote No on another nonsensical attempt to increase the cost of living ! Taxpayers are honestly just renting their houses from the town, it costs me $40 every night to sleep in my own bed ! Soon it will be cheaper living in a hotel than owning a property in Newtown !

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The entire budget needs to be cut not raised. The proposed budget now would sit that we spend $2.65 million dollars every week. For population of less than 30k people it is absolutely absurd ! You cannot keep driving older folks out of town just to create a revolving door of parents who come here, educate their kids and run away ! There is no need to be paying 190K annual salary to an ASSISTANT to superintendent, not in the best interest of tax payers ! The voting turnout at 9% is ridiculous ! Lobby lawmakers to change the voting by mail, so everyone gets a ballot in the mail and at least 51% of residents vote to approve, otherwise the budget should not be approved if you don't have the majority ! Most folks don't even know when the vote is ! They have taxes bundled with mortgage and don't even know ! We are raising cost of living for everyone and it is absolutely not necessary.

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