Background Checks By Companies Spark Worries By Some
By John Christoffersen
Associated Press
STAMFORD — Jessica Smith thought she was a shoo-in for ...
Mike Fern poured in 34 points – with the aid of five three-pointers – and Rafael Cardoso added 18 more to lead Pantan Landscaping to a 8...
The Newtown Bee office on any given Wednesday is controlled chaos with fingers flying across keyboards, photographers running out for last minute pictures, and ...
‘Kaaren Valenta Day’—
Retirement Recognition Awarded To Bee Editor
“Make new friends, but keep the old; some...
SBA To Open Loan Application Centers For State Flood Victims
HARTFORD (AP) — The US Small Business Administration will open temporary disaster outre...
The emergency dispatching center at Town Hall South reports the following fire calls during the past week:
Thursday, December 29: 12:08 pm, automatic alarm,...
Youths Take A Joy Ride
In The Borough
Police report they arrested two boys under age 16 early on the morning of December 30 in the town center.
Police said they...
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).