Woodbury FFA Hunter Pace
The Woodbury FFA Alumni and Parent Support Group announce that the annual Woodbury FFA Hunter Pace fundraiser will be held Sunday, Nov...
PurpleStride Zumbathon
Coming To Edmond Town Hall
On October 9, the PurpleStride Danbury 2010 Committee will be hosting a Zumbathon for pancreatic cancer aware...
Greenridge Hearing Postponed To Allow Water System Planning
By Andrew Gorosko
NEW BRITAIN — At the request of the Town of Brookfield, the state Dep...
Navigating The College Process
Stephanie Klein Wassink, owner of Winning Applications,
works with families navigating the intricacies of the college and/or ...
Clarice F. McKay
Cherished Wife And Mother
Clarice F. McKay, 87, beloved wife of Curtis W. McKay of Newtown, died September 24, in Danbury Hospital. She wa...
Simply Baby And Kids—
Simply Great Quality And Service Are This Retailer’s Benchmarks
By John Voket
From the moment you walk under the c...
Environmental Steward Is Worried New DEP Regulations Will Impact Local Watershed
By John Voket
Local Councilman James Belden, an environmental steward who also ...
Newtown Resident Celebrates 25 Years At Family Company
WESTPORT — Chris Wright, Newtown resident and owner of Wright Brothers Builders, Inc along wi...
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).