Diabetic Group To Meet
DANBURY — The Danbury Area Diabetic Association will meet at 7:30 pm on February 21 at the Pope John Paul nursing home, 33 Li...
WATERBURY — The rousing live musical celebration of Mark Twain’s great American classic, Tom Sawyer, will be presented by Young Peopleâ&...
With the possibility of the town purchasing Fairfield Hills looming in the future, what would you like to see the property used for?
Amy Holcomb: â...
Chemistry Students Explore the ‘Elements’ of Writing
By Jeff White
“I like to do a lot of everything in my class,â€	...
Sandy Hook Students
Explore The World
Amid hand-made flags and tables brimming with culinary delicacies, Sandy Hook third-graders basked in their diverse backgr...
Seminar On Creating Health
BROOKFIELD — Prevention Plus Seminars health education series will present “Creating Health with Motivation a...
District Will Be Flexible With 5/6 School
By Jeff White
With the reality of a town-owned Fairfield Hills quickly taking shape and the site’s advisor...
Consensus Sought –
Two Visions Evolve From Fairfield Hills Panel
By Steve Bigham
Later this month, the Fairfield Hills Advisory Committee will go b...
Cristi Ann Adams To Thomas J. Dropka
Kenneth and Amelia Adams of Sandy Hook announce the engagement of their daughter, Cristi Ann Adams, to Thomas Joseph Dropka...
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).