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SHERMAN — Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons) by Christopher Hampton, a fascinating tale of sexual in...
Concert Band Spring Show
WATERBURY — The Naugatuck Valley Community College Concert Band will perform its spring concert on Tuesday, May 16, at 7:30...
Reenactors At Book Store
DANBURY — As part of its Rochambeau Weekend festivities, Danbury Museum & Historical Society will send American Revolution ...
Auction Event Gave Parent Connection Members Something To Crow About
By Shannon Hicks
The attendees — and especially the buyers — o...
Condo Complex Details Sought On
Traffic And Wastewater
By Andrew Gorosko
A Danbury developer’s controversial proposal to build a 23-unit mixed-inc...
Putting Children First Is Goal Of Family Counseling Center Classes
By Nancy K. Crevier
“It used to be, at least in the 60s and 70s when I was growin...
2006 NSA Memorial Golf Scramble Will Also Honor Isabelle MacKenzie Murray
The Newtown Scholarship Association’s (NSA) 14th Annual Jack Friel Memoria...
Hips And Strokes On
The Bill At NM Hospital
New Milford — On Wednesday, May 10, at 6:45 pm, at New Milford Hospital, orthopedic surgeon John Mullen...
Ms O’Donnell will share a perspective on disease that aligns Unity teachings, and offer practical steps on new approaches to healing. For 30 years s...
SENIOR NEWS
Senior services for Newtown seniors are available at the Multi-Purpose Building on Riverside Road in Sandy Hook. The Senior Center is under the ausp...
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).