Colleen Gantnier and Westley Thompson
Mr and Mrs Kevin Gantnier, Sr, of Newtown announce the engagement of their daughter Colleen Gantnier to Westley Thomp...
Weekend Retreat Being
Planned At Wisdom House
LITCHFIELD — A weekend retreat on Centering Prayer will take place at Wisdom House Retreat and Confer...
Rate Hike Jan. 8—
Postal Service Customers Put In Their Two-Cents Worth
By Nancy K. Crevier
Area residents are preparing for the January 8 US Postal...
Rohleder-Carlson Family Buys A Seat At Edmond Town Hall Theatre
Generations of people have been entertained by plays, minstrels, dance productions, concerts, gr...
Now On View
Artist Beverly Branch will be exhibiting her paintings at C.H. Booth Library beginning Saturday, January 7, and running through Tuesday, Januar...
Antique Sharpening Wheel Stolen
Police report that sometime between December 10 and 17, someone stole a stone antique sharpening wheel from the yard at 46 Eden ...
Student Exchange Program
World Heritage Student Exchange Program, a public benefit organization, is seeking local host families for high school boys and girls f...
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).