NYS Honors November Job Bank Member Of The Month
Nick Moser, 17, is the November Job Bank Member of the Month at Newtown Youth Services. Nick has been an ac...
Grief Seminar At St Vincent’s
BRIDGEPORT — St Vincent’s Pastoral Care Department is presenting a “Healing Grief ...
A Holiday Exhibition At Potter & Slack
MARBLEDALE — Through December 31, Potter & Sack Fine Art is presenting a holiday exhibition in small format....
Newtown Singles Mingle Event
Newtown Singles has scheduled its next “Meet & Mingle” event.
The group will meet at Newtown Meeting House ...
Studies Support The Value Of Recess
To the Editor:
I am writing in response to the letter to the editor “Bring Back Recess” by Lynda Web...
WCSU Holiday
Jazz Concert
DANBURY — Western CT State University will host The WCSU Holiday Jazz Concert, featuring timeless holiday classics, on Sun...
Police Seek To Replace Pistols With New SidearmsÂ
By Andrew Gorosko
As part of the police department’s proposed budget for the 2005-06 fiscal year...
Council Seeks Members For
Charter Revision Panel
By John Voket
Almost three years ago to this day, members of the Newtown Legislative Council acted like they ne...
NHS Interim Principal Takes The Reins
By Larissa Lytwyn
Newtown High School Principal Bill Manfredonia’s departure on November 30 marked the end of ...
Singers Preparing A Venetian Christmas
KENT — The Kent Singers, under the direction of Marquerite Muller, will perform “A Venetian Chris...
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).
Multi-Referendum Year?