‘Spring Migration’ At Bird Club Meeting
SOUTHBURY — The April meeting of the Western Connecticut Bird Club will feature a sl...
“The fact is, whether we like it or not, the law impacts almost everything we do with horses.”
These are the words of Julie I. Fershtman...
Council Panel Begins Work On Ordinances
By Steve Bigham
The Legislative Council’s ordinance subcommittee met this past Saturday to begin what should...
BIBLE BAPTIST CHURCH
Pastor Steve Plodinec
35 Sugar Street (Route 302); 426-6484
E-mail, bbcct@IBM.net
Children’s Bible Hour and Adult Bible Groups,...
New Immunization Requirements for Newtown Students
By Jeff White
As kindergarten registration officially kicked off across Newtown this week, Dee Capole, the nu...
Stencilers’ Meeting, With Program On Colors
SOUTHBURY — The next meeting of the Mt Laurel Stencilers chapter of the national Stencil A...
A Kansas schoolteacher who had always wanted to be a playwright, Inge came to the Big City in 1949 and achieved instant success. The New York Times placed him i...
Monday, April 10
CHOOSE ONE:
Hot Dog,
Chef Salad w/Roll,
P.B. & Jelly Sandwich
CHOOSE UP TO THREE:
Baked Beans,
Fruit Cocktail, Milk
Tuesday, April 11
CHOOSE ON...
Rep Shea Seeks Donations Of Used Cell Phones For Battered Women
HARTFORD — If you have a cell phone that you no longer are using, it could help prot...
Regional Hospice Offers Spring Volunteer Training
DANBURY — Regional Hospice of Western Connecticut will hold a Spring Volunteer Training Program be...
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).