Sacrificing A Neighborhood
To the Editor:
I was upset and surprised by Kevin O’Neil’s attitude toward the building of senior condos refl...
Book Discussion Of ‘Single Shard’
The CH Booth Library Young Adult Department will host a book discussion on Single Shard, by Linda Sue ...
Craft Fair Holiday Boutique For Animal Welfare
NEW FAIRFIELD — The New Fairfield/Sherman Animal Welfare Society will present its 24th Annual Craft ...
Dream Come
True Needs
Holiday Gifts
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DANBURY — Dream Come True of Western Connecticut is seeking donations of children’s gifts to b...
Bethel Library To Host Local Poet & Peace Activist
BETHEL — Bethel poet Gerard Brooker will read from and sign copies of his latest collection of p...
The Cost Of Doing Business
To the Editor:
The Save Fairfield Hills for Newtown movement was organized in 1998 with the clear objective of acquiring and preservi...
Lovin’ In The Oven
Ms Manfredonia’s kindergarten class at St Rose School recently donned their aprons for a delicious afternoon of holi...
Governor’s Residence Announces Holiday Open House Schedule
Hartford — Governor M. Jodi Rell has announced the schedule for the Holiday O...
Tony Winner Debbie Gravitte To Headline Local Holiday Spectacular
RIDGEFIELD — For the second year running, Debbie Gravitte – a Tony Awa...
I am sorry but $88.8 million dollars to educate 4030 kids is way out of line! That's over $22k per kid, used to be $8k per kid, the kids aren't getting any smarter, the administration eats all the cost. Time to cut the budget by 20% and also cut the $225k salary of the superintendent and $193k of the superintendent assistant ! You can get a lot of teachers for $400k wasted for 2 overpaid positions. Common sense should tell you that spending $2.5 million per every week for population less than 30k people is just way too high! Also voting should be done by mail, enough with these nonsensical referendums where barely 16% of voters show up. 51% voters approval should be MANDATED!
Who have you asked that didn't know where to cut? Its easy. Ideally, you would start with section 100 of the budget but the union prevents that. So I say you turn to page 18, put it on your dart board, and start reducing the head count. It's all you can do when the union controls the budget.
The people have spoken, time to sharpen your pencils. If we look at the town budget for guidance the BOE should cut the budget from 4.4% to 2.75% I find the voting results very interesting ... We have approximately 4,030 students in our town, with a published 12:1 ratio which means we have 335 teachers. I would love to know the actual number if someone knows. If we account for their spouses that gets us very close to the number of people who voted yes for the budget and wished it would be higher (729).
Multi-Referendum Year?