Jewish Federation To Hold Hayrides
SOUTHBURY — Jewish Communities of Western Connecticut, Inc will hold its annual fall hayride and bonfire at Schri...
Gas Station/Convenience Store Proposal Gains Wetlands Permit
By Andrew Gorosko
The Inland Wetlands Commission (IWC) has approved a wetlands permit for a firm th...
Paddle Club Meeting Planned
BROOKFIELD — The Housatonic Valley Paddlers Club will hold a meeting on Monday, October 9, at 7 pm, at Brookfield Commun...
Interfaith Institute Will Focus
On The Importance Of Water
LITCHFIELD — The seventh annual Casagrande Interfaith Institute will take place at Wisdo...
Botanical Medicine Highlighted At Upcoming Library Program
By Nancy K. Crevier
The Enhancing Wellness series at C.H. Booth Library presents “Botanic...
Fashion Finds For Fido
By Nancy K. Crevier
Dawn Adams has gone to the dogs. From visualizing, designing, and sewing clothing and costumes for people of all shap...
Robert E. Waechter
Kind And Humorous
Robert E. Waechter, 79, of Newtown, died September 5 at Danbury Hospital. Mr Waechter was born February 10, 1927, in R...
Ms Hardwick is the program manager for The Scattering Clouds Program of The Lutheran Home in Southbury. Scattering Clouds, an outreach service, offers free educ...
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).