Time To Freeze
Taxes
To the Editor:
A note to the selectmen and town council: the stimulus program is to keep taxpayers afloat. It is not to pay higher town ta...
Ready For Super Tuesday
To the Editor:
We would like to thank Dr Robinson, her staff, and The Newtown
Bee for their help getting ready for Super Tuesday.
In...
Seniors May Opt To Wait Versus Sharing Rec Center
By John Voket
Nearly four dozen seniors turned out for a Commission on Aging meeting this week to see plans an...
Is America Free?
To the Editor:
In the Bee recently, a former respected Congressman expressed concern about the condition of our “representativeâ&#x...
Heather Cox Installation
At Knoedler Gallery
2col Migration..
A studio view of the “Migration” installation with artist Heather Cox sta...
Strengthening Families Program (SFP)
Meets for ten weeks of Wednesdays from 6 to 8 pm. SFP is designed to support families as their children grow into teen...
Campus Notes
Keene State College, in Keene, N.H., named two Sandy Hook residents to the fall 2007 Dean’s List. Amanda Marie Black and Shanna Marie ...
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).