Helping Women Buy Their First Home
DANBURY — Registration is now being accepted for the “First Time Homebuyer Workshop” at T...
Saturday, February 4
The Three Feathers, 10 am, Housatonic Valley Waldorf School, 40 Dodgingtown Road, free puppet play of the Brothers Grimm fairy tal...
Purging Politics Or Fixing America
To the Editor:
It all makes sense now. I was reading an article on MSNBC.com which discussed new scientific data supporting t...
Hannah Tenenbaum scored 15 points and Rose Jackman added 13 more to lead Aqua Team to a 36-20 win over Paul Anka in Senior Girls Basketball League action last w...
Mr and Mrs Michael Rivera
Michele Bree Hugyo, daughter of Michael and Anne Hugyo of Waterford, formerly of Newtown, and Michael Joseph Rivera, son of Mary ...
Hawley PTA Kicks Off Reflections Program
The Hawley Parent Teacher Association (PTA) kicked off the Reflections program themed, “I Wonder Why,â€...
‘Unity In Diversity’ Programs Preview
Unity and Diversity, a cable television program that can be seen by residents of 17 towns in t...
Dinner & A ‘Broadway’ Show
DANBURY — Stage Door Productions will present nine performances of Broadway Bound, a revue of som...
Warrant
After learning that police held a warrant for his arrest, Craig Thomas, 43, of West Haven turned himself over to police at the police station on th...
‘The World’s Funniest Musical,’ A-Men
BRIDGEPORT — When the original Nunsense, winner of the Outer Critics Circl...
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).