Candlelight Vigil Highlights
Local AIDS Quilt Display
By Tanjua Damon
The lecture hall at Newtown High School Thursday evening was a somber place as members of...
By Lisa Peterson
Huntfield Farm, a thriving full-service show barn on Poverty Hollow Road, is growing and moving in the right direction, according to owner and ...
HUD Honors Kennedy Center
TRUMBULL — The Kennedy Center, one of the largest rehabilitation agencies in Connecticut, was honored by the US Department...
An Angelic Christmas Concert
WASHINGTON — The acclaimed children’s choir Chorus Angelicus and the adult vocal ensemble Gaudeamus will pr...
An Opportunity To Meet Nancy White Carlstrom, Sunday
The Booth Library Authors Fund will present Nancy White Carlstrom on Sunday, December 10, at 2 pm, at C.H. ...
‘Scrooge’ At YCBA
NEW HAVEN — Yale Center for British Art will host its annual free screening of Scrooge on Saturday, Decemb...
BNI Sets Breakfast Meetings
Visitors and business members are welcome to attend the weekly breakfast meetings of Business Network International (BNI). The meeti...
Coping With “Holiday Blues”
“Holiday Blues” will be discussed on Wednesday, December 13, at a free workshop spon...
‘Messiah’ Sing-In
NEW HAVEN — Yale Glee Club will host its 18th Annual Handel’s Messiah Sing-In on Sunday, Decem...
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).