Traffic Improvements
Needed ASAP
To the Editor:
I am looking forward to the recommendations from the traffic study; however, I think there are some fairly simp...
Jacob Henry Witzke
Practitioner Of
Aviation Technology
Jacob (Jake) Henry Witzke, 90, husband of the late Joanne Karvosky Witzke, died August 24 at S...
Artists Invited To Enter
Fifth Annual ‘Festival Of Lighthouses’
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Sandy Hook Center—
Property Owners Seek To Shape Design Guidelines
By Andrew Gorosko
A group of Sandy Hook Center commercial property owners plans ...
Bob Glander Scholarship Recipients
Newtown Babe Ruth League announces this year’s recipients of the Bob Glander/Newtown Babe Ruth Scholarship are As...
Connecticut’s state motto, “Qui Transtulit Sustinet,” means “He who has transplanted will sustain.”
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Newtown Youth Basketball Association Inc, (NYBA) will begin taking registrations for the 2006-07 season. Official registration dates
– all h...
Voting Officials Hoping For New Technology By November
By John Voket
By the time Newtown’s Registrars of Voters return from their annual state confe...
Restaurant, Retail Big Box Stores Likely Replacing Fireside Inn
By John Voket
As was anticipated in a report in The Newtown Bee last week, the popular Fireside ...
School Worker Raising Awareness Of Liver Disease
Steve Dawson is spreading the word. He is promoting a fundraising walk to be held September 10 that will draw a...
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).