Celebrate Girl Scouts Past And Present
During Girl Scout Week — March 6-12, 2005 — the Girl Scout Council of Southwestern Connecticut i...
State AFL-CIO President To Address Newtown’s Democrats
The Newtown Democratic Town Committee welcomes Connecticut AFL-CIO President John Olsen to it...
The Importance Of Body Language
DANBURY — Johannes Galli and Dr Tatjana Maya will discuss the importance of recognizing and understanding body langu...
NHS Announces Second Quarter Honor Roll
The following students were named to the Newtown High School second quarter Honor Roll. To be named to the Honor Roll a ...
Parking Lot Vandalism
Police report that sometime between 9 pm February 28, and 7:30 am March 1, someone slashed two tires on a vehicle that was parked nea...
CAmpus Notes
Cadet Andrew Michael Narcum, son of John and Donna Narcum, was named to the Dean’s List at the US Military Academy at West Point, N...
Anastasia        Bei
Anastasia Bei, 83, of Newtown, formerly of Monroe, died on February 27 at Ashlar of Newtown.
Born in Dickson City, N.J., she had r...
Can Businesses At Fairfield Hills
Generate Tax Revenue?
To the Editor:
The selectmen have carefully reduced the Fairfield Hills operating budget for 2005-2006 t...
Mark and Kara Gerace of Hall Lane announce the birth of their daughter, Isabella Rose Gerace, born February 22 at Danbury Hospital. Isabella weighed 8 pounds at...
Indulgence: A Spa With A Difference
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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).