Fasting For World Hunger
Members of the youth fellowship group at the United Methodist Church in Sandy Hook, joined by some of their friends, took part in a 30-...
Nereyda         Torres
Nereyda “Eida” Torres, 81, of Bridgeport, devoted wife of the late Juan Torres, died February 22 at St ...
What do you enjoy most about Girl Scouting? Asked at Edmond Town Hall.
Hannah Barrett: “I love going on all the trips and doing all the act...
Borough Zoners Revise Rules; Modify Village District Zoning
By Andrew Gorosko
Following a March 1 public hearing, Borough Zoning Commission members revised the...
YMCA Receives Funding For Summer Program
DANBURY — The Regional YMCA of Western Connecticut has received funding from the Olga Siplin Childrenâ€...
Pakistani Cooking Class At Library
Newtown resident Kanwal Sakhi will present Pakistani cooking classes at the C.H. Booth Library on March 23 at 11 am and 7 pm ...
Woman’s Club Planning Silent Auction
The Newtown Woman’s Club, GFWC, Inc, is planning its second annual Silent Auction on Saturday, Marc...
Two shows coming in by Jim Koplik Presents will be going on sale this weekend, one at The Bushnell for next month and the other the first show to be announced f...
Relay For Life Kickoff March 7
For the second year, Newtown will be hosting a Relay For Life, the American Cancer Society’s signature event to fight...
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).