Nature Walks At Audubon Center
SOUTHBURY — Leisurely nature walks geared to participants’ interests have been planned at the Audubon Cen...
General Auditions At Hartford Stage
HARTFORD — Hartford Stage will be scheduling appointments soon for open call auditions of local Equity member an...
Show Opening At Handcrafter’s Haven
WOODBURY — Ink prints from woodblocks, paintings and decoupage works, all by Rosanne Verlezza, is be...
Luis Fernando Castillo
Luis Fernando Castillo, 48, a resident of Danbury for the past 27 years, died on August 3 at Danbury Hospital following an extended illne...
Revolutionary War Re-Enactors
To Appear At Danbury Museum
DANBURY — On Saturday, August 14, Danbury Museum & Historical Society will host 12 Revol...
Dave Brubeck Quartet To Perform At WCSU
DANBURY — An evening with the Dave Brubeck Quartet — featuring Dave Brubeck on piano, Bobby Mili...
Craft Center Is Planning Its Golden Anniversary Show
BROOKFIELD — A special exhibition celebrating Brookfield Craft Center’s 50th year o...
Elizabeth J. Mallen
Elizabeth J. (Lynch) Mallen, RN, 84, of Trumbull, beloved wife of the late John F. Mallen, Jr, died August 1 at St Joseph’s Mano...
Dog Days Returning
To Peabody Museum
NEW HAVEN — “The Dog (and Cat) Days of Summer” will be celebrated at Yale Peabody Museu...
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).