Device Reduces Stroke Risk After Heart Surgery
Cardiac surgeons at Bridgeport Hospital are among the first in Connecticut to use an innovative device that repla...
National Hotline For Poison Prevention
FARMINGTON – The Connecticut Poison Control Center (CPCC) at UConn Health Center has joined 64 other preventi...
Report Links Birth Defects And Obesity
NEW YORK — Birth defects, premature birth, and other severe health problems in tomorrow’s babies ...
The Need For Patient Safety And Fewer Medical Mistakes
It could be the wrong medication or the wrong dose. The wrong patient underwent a test or a procedure sch...
Patient Safety In The Hospital
Communicate
*Ask questions and express concerns. If you have concerns, talk with your nurse, the unit's patient services manager ...
Tips For Being Physically Active At Any Size
(NUI) –– Healthy, fit bodies come in all sizes.
People who are large, however, can sometim...
Connecticut Residents Get Help To Quit Smoking
HARTFORD — Connecticut smokers can now increase their odds of successful cessation by taking advantag...
Pregnancy Riskline Provides Counseling About Potentially Dangerous Exposures
FARMINGTON –– Most people know by now that pregnant women s...
Reiki Brings A Hands-On Approach To Healing
NEW HAVEN — When Pamela Potter, an advanced practice registered nurse and a Reiki master, holds her hand...
Program Helps Working Seniors Who Need Hearing Aids
By Jan Howard
Employed senior citizens or seniors looking for employment, who may be experiencing hearing l...
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).