European Scenes At KAA
KENT — Harwinton artist John Swatsley’s solo show entitled “European Holiday” will be on ...
Construction Burglary
Sometime between 4:45 pm August 17 and 7:30 am August 19, someone entered a home under construction on Meridian Ridge Drive and stole...
Pig Roast At St Andrews
MARBLEDALE — St Andrews Church will host a pig roast on Saturday, September 16, from 4 to 7 pm.
The cost is adults $15 and c...
Season Opener Is September 17—
Newtown Friends Of Music Announce
Complete Line-Up For 2006-07 Season
For the coming season of “exquisit...
Registration Open For Adult Diploma Program
On Wednesday, September 6, from 6 to 8 pm, at Newtown High School registration will take place for the WERACE/ Newto...
Mr & Mrs Roger Hernandez
Alyson Nicole Robichaud and Roger Hernandez were united in marriage on July 22, 2006, in a ceremony that took place at Southford F...
Real Estate Notes
Canterbury Lane
Gregory and Amy Davis purchased a home at 12 Canterbury Lane from Mark and Kara Smith.
Joan Briglia, ABR, with Coldwell B...
Virginia Marie Parsloe
Active Volunteer
Virginia Marie Parsloe, 89, of Lyrical Lane, died August 25 of natural causes while peacefully listening to one of ...
Applications Available For 2007 UConn Master Gardener Classes
TORRINGTON — The University of Connecticut’s Cooperative Extension System ...
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).