Antares Ensemble, With Sarah Wolfson,
Will Perform Friends Of Music Season Finale
The Antares Ensemble takes advantage of its unique instrumentation by present...
Public Works Panel Digs Deep
Into Budget For Savings
By John Voket
Chairman Richard Woycik went into a protracted noontime meeting of the Legislative Council P...
Berthelson To Talk About The Greatest Showman On Earth, April 11 For Historical Society
Bethel’s own P.T. Barnum is a fascinating study in American ...
With April Fools’ Day on Friday, who would you most want to prank? And what prank would you most like to pull off?
Casey McLean: I would want to foo...
Newtown Toastmasters Announce Contest Winners
In March, Newtown Toastmasters hosted a standing-room-only audience for a Tall Tales and International Speech cont...
Standing on the well-lit porch of the white two-story house at 34 Church Hill Road, the demolition man, Ray Foster, mused, “This must have been a ni...
Congratulations to Chris Capozziello, who was the one reader able to tell us that last week’s challenge (inset) is the lantern hanging over the fron...
Capeci: Timing Of Charter Referendum May Have Been Its Undoing
By John Voket
By 4 pm Tuesday, March 29, with just under 600 referendum votes cast, Legislative ...
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).