Edmond Town Hall Graffiti Cleaned;
Repainting Work Remains
By Andrew Gorosko
The use of potent industrial solvents coupled with considerable elbow grease has ...
Murphy Slates Session At ETH—
Got A Message For Congress?
By John Voket
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An Educational Trust
To the Editor:
On June 13, 2007, the Lord called Anthony Isabella home after a long and painful battle with cancer. Anthony was truly a man...
‘Be Vocal At All Times’
To the Editor:
In last week’s Bee, First Selectman Herb Rosenthal took to task “a handfu...
A strong contingent from the Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) – including former Newtown High School and Southern Connecticut State University star...
Danbury Show August 13—
Kenny Loggins Holds Nothing Back On His Latest Offering
By John Voket
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Food Pantry Needs High Protein Foods
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Brownstein J...
Time To Rethink Pay-To-Play Sports
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Kyle Palo, son of Beverly and Richard Palo, has been named to the Dean’s List for the spring semester at Southern New Hampshire University, Manc...
Extreme Winners
The Western United Extreme U9 team finished unbeaten in the U10 bracket of the recent Suffield Invitational Soccer Tournament. Girls on the team...
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).