Rotary Offers Free Trips
To India And South Korea
The Rotary District of Southern Connecticut is currently seeking young business and professional men and women...
SOUTHBURY – The fourth annual Pomperaug Community Golf Tournament will be held Monday, August 25, at the Heritage Village Country Club in Southbury....
Berkeley Offers Degree In
Fashion Marketing & Management
LITTLE FALLS, N.J. — Berkeley College, a liberal arts institution offering associate and u...
You’d never know the Labor Day Book Sale is only one month away, as volunteers are working hard and others are coming forward to help. But more volu...
Volunteers Needed For Book Sale
To the Editor:
Book sale time is fast upon us at the Booth Library. Many volunteers have been working all year getting ready for...
Union Savings Bank Foundation Seeks Grant Requests
DANBURY — Union Savings Bank Foundation is accepting applications for funding from 501(C) (3) or...
Parent Connection, a group founded by local parents in 1993 to address teen substance abuse, is in the process of reuniting to reestablish a series of upcoming ...
WEST WARWICK, Rhode Island – With a trip to the Cal Ripken World Series on the line, the Newtown Babe Ruth Baseball 10-and-under All Stars saw their...
By Kim J. Harmon
DANBURY – Ever since a loss in the first round of the Al Leonard Tournament many moons ago, the Newtown Babe Ruth Baseball 9-and-un...
Youth Programs
Newtown Youth Services Summer Adventure Camp for fifth to eighth grade: August 5, Splashdown; August 12, Lake Compounce.
Costs vary by activ...
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).