Annual Murphy Basketball Camp
The 29th Annual Murphy Basketball Camp offers sessions for boys and girls ages 7-15 at the Newtown Youth Academy this summer.
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SBA Funding Available For Regional Clusters, Job Creation
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The US Small Business Administration announced June 28 the availability...
Newtown Youth & Family Services Conducts
Annual Awards Ceremony
By Eliza Hallabeck
Newtown Youth & Family Services Executive Director Beth Agen oversaw the org...
Commentary—
It’s Tough To Give Americans What They Want
By Lee H. Hamilton
The Gulf oil spill has laid bare a series of shortcomings in ...
Junior/Senior Tournament
Low Net: Mike Portnoy and George Trudell
Second Gross: Peter Wallace and Steve Mais
Low Net: Dan Casanta and Rick Eaton
Second Net...
Geriatric Ministry Program Training Open To All
Aging, with its many challenges, is often a time when spiritual resources and emotional support are vital to the...
Newtown Bombers Win Jimmy Fund Championship
The Newtown Bombers, 9-Year-Old All-Star baseball team captured the Al Leonard Jimmy Fund Baseball Tournament, hoste...
June Harriet Silos Sokec
Cherished Wife And Mother
June Harriet Silos Sokec, 63 of Fairfield, died June 21, at Bridgeport Hospital. She will be remembered ...
EPA Lead Safe Law Means Headaches For Contractors, Higher Prices For Consumers
By Nancy K. Crevier
Lead, a heavy metal, has been used for centuries in the manu...
Geriatric Ministry Program Training Open To All
Aging, with its many challenges, is often a time when spiritual resources and emotional support are vital to the...
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).