New Energy And Fresh Ideas
To the Editor:
While my husband and my daughter have been involved in local politics for many years now, it was never really my thing...
Only waist-high, the young spruce stands straight and stretches its immature branches in the shade of a larger spruce that the smaller tree will one day become....
Over Budget Or Not, NHS Expansion Still Must Happen
To the Editor:
In April of this year, the annual budget and the NHS Expansion Project were approved on the f...
A Tree Keeps A Memory
By Kendra Bobowick
It is just a little tree that barely casts a shadow.
Waist-high with pale green boughs, the sapling blue spruce that w...
Stadium Night Planned–
‘Hits For Harmon’ Pledges Top $2,700
A modest effort to help raise funds in memory of the late Newtow...
Ask The Doc About: Sleep Disorders
Derby — More than 100 million Americans of all ages fail to get a good night’s sleep. At least 84 dif...
Budget Buster
To the Editor:
A review of the town’s 2007 audited financial statements provides a telling story of a budget process that continues to...
Town Hall Bids Appear ‘Substantially’ Under Budget
By John Voket
At the September 3 Legislative Council meeting, Town Finance Director R...
Emerald Anniversary
Clematis (Grosh) and Darius Hallabeck will celebrate their 55th anniversary on Friday, September 5.
“We dated for over two year...
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).