Rethink The Timing
Of The Budget
To the Editor:
It’s hard for me to believe that only one in five eligible voters came out to the polls to vote on...
Not Much Of A Reduction
To the Editor:
The budget battle continues with the latest insult to the taxpayers by the town council members trimming $295,000 from th...
Offended By Budget Comments
To the Editor,
After reading the article on Friday, April 28, regarding the budget’s defeat, I felt a little offended an...
Be A Part Of The Process
To the Editor:
Last week, after hearing the results of the budget vote, and as a supporter of it, I was of course disappointed that it ...
Do Your Part And Vote
To the Editor:
Next Tuesday, May 9, will be the second referendum for this year’s budget.
I know I was one of several people ...
Ann M. DeMattei
Beloved By All
Ann M. DeMattei, 86, beloved wife of Anthony R. DeMattei of Newtown, died May 3 at her home. She was born in Brooklyn on Apr...
*Tickets for BONNIE RAITT, with special guest Keb Mo, a concert at The Chevrolet Theatre in Wallingford on July 16, will be on sale Friday morning at 10. Priced...
Lots Of Litter Was Lifted
To the Editor:
On behalf of the Newtown Lions Club we would like to thank everyone who helped out last Sunday with “Lose T...
Saturday, May 6 – The Smithtown Hunt Spring Pace will be held Saturday, May 6, at a private waterfront estate in Smithtown. Call Gloria Smith at...
Haircuts For
A Cure Fundraiser
MONROE — Cut For A Cure, a one-day fundraiser, will be held at Steven Williams Hair Design on Sunday, May 7. From no...
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).
Multi-Referendum Year?