The day after Christmas brought droves of children and their family members to EverWonder Children’s Museum (EverWonder) to enjoy a fun day out together.
Among ...
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The dispatchers at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center report the following fire calls and the responders:
Thursday, December 26: 3:44 pm, wires dow...
The first regular Board of Selectmen’s meeting of 2020 was among the most brief in memory, clocking in at under 12 minutes. But it did include conversation that...
DUI Arrest
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After a long period of inactivity, a lawsuit, which was filed against the Water and Sewer Authority (WSA) in August 2018, is now being handled by a new law firm...
Richard L. Prasauckas, 76, of Sandy Hook, passed away unexpectedly January 2, 2020, at his home. Mr Prasauckas was the husband of Jacquelyn (Taradine) Prasaucka...
Clifford Allen Rothe passed away Thursday, January 2, 2020, at home, in the presence of his family in Southbury after a long battle with cancer. Born September ...
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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).