Acquisition Of Newtown Water Companies
Bodes Well For Former Owner
By John Voket
In mid-January, Aquarion Water Company completed the acquisition of assets of ...
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Joe Pieretti
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Favorite part about wrestling: “The thrill of being i...
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Concert Will Raise Money For School In Cambodia
By Eliza Hallabeck
Last year a group of high school students, called Two Schools One Song, exceeded expectation...
Energy Commission Chairman
Amped Up About Photovoltaics
By John Voket
Sustainable Energy Commission Chairman Dan Holmes believes all Newtown needs is one succe...
Council OKs Appeal Of Edona Commons Decisions
By Andrew Gorosko
First Selectman Pat Llodra said this week that the town plans to pursue having the Connecticut S...
Reed Sends ‘Valentines For Troops’
By Eliza Hallabeck
 Two lines of students worked to prepare boxes of letters and collected goods for...
Mavericks Capture Basketball Tournament Title
The Connecticut Mavericks fourth grade boys’ basketball team captured the 25th Annual Yorktown AC Hoo...
William Taft: The Largely Forgotten President
While widely known for his sizable girth of 300 pounds, and haunted by anecdotes of becoming stuck in the bathtub,...
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).