Date: Fri 13-Aug-1999
Publication: Bee
Author: SHANNO
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Corrigan-horse-muse-paintings
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A Trumbull Artist Finds Her Muse In Newtown
(with cu...
Date: Fri 27-Aug-1999
Publication: Bee
Author: ANDYG
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United-Water-utility
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French Firm To Buy United Water
BY ANDREW GOROSKO
A French com...
Date: Fri 01-Oct-1999
Publication: Ant
Author: GWARD
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Brimfield-Beach
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Brimfield Wet And Wild
(with cuts and sidebar)
By Laura Beach
BRIMF...
Date: Fri 17-Sep-1999
Publication: Ant
Author: CAROLL
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Barbata-Wave-Hill
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Wave Hill Premiers Art In Woodland An Installation By Laura Ande...
Date: Fri 03-Sep-1999
Publication: Ant
Author: SARAH
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Watercolors By Arundhati Vartak At Hunt Institute And Chatham C...
Date: Fri 24-Sep-1999
Publication: Bee
Author: ANDYG
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police-new-officers
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Two New Officers Join The Police
(with photo)
BY ANDREW GOROSKO...
Date: Fri 24-Sep-1999
Publication: Ant
Author: GWARD
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Vail-Easton
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Affordable Country And Collectibles At Mark Vail
(with 3 cuts)
By Rita ...
Date: Fri 03-Sep-1999
Publication: Ant
Author: JUDIR
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Santucci-eBay
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eBay Admits Fault But Continues With Reserve Fee Increases
By Louis S...
Date: Fri 24-Sep-1999
Publication: Bee
Author: ANDYG
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New York Man Dies In Multi-Vehicle Crash On I-84
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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).