Leadership Needed On Fairfield Hills
To the Editor,
I want to thank the Public Building Committee for Fairfield Hills for going on record and saying they think ...
Borough officials Jay Maher and Joan Crick celebrated the completion of a sidewalk improvement project along Main Street Monday with a short ribbon-cutting cere...
The Newtown Rotary Club hopes its effort to bring technology to the nation of Ghana will help people like this woman and child.
Harvey Sellner visited Ghana thi...
Please Slow Down!
To the Editor,
On Wednesday, November 24, my two daughters left for high school, leaving a little earlier than usual because there was heavy f...
Pecks Lane
Police report an accident between a town truck and a Bethel motorist about 7:45 am November 29 at the northerly intersection of Pecks Lane and S...
By Steve Bigham
The Newtown High School cheerleading squad is adding a bit of muscle to its roster this winter with the addition of three male members.
All thre...
Another Good Adaptation For The Stage
By June April
NEW HAVEN — Try Footloose for an early holiday gift with your teenager. It’s not jus...
Signed Meeting House Prints Available
Local artist Ruth Newquist signs a print of her Newtown Meeting House painting for Donald Studley, president of the Herita...
Dec 3-5: Antiquarius: The Antiques Show, Greenwich Civic Center, Harding Rd, Old Greenwich, Fri-Sat 11 am-6 pm ###walking tour 13:51 A11/P11 show preview Sat, 1...
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).