Black Rock Day Returning June 6
BRIDGEPORT — A Black Rock tradition continues Sunday, June 6, with the 29th annual Black Rock Day, featuring a popul...
Council Approves Water Line For Middle Gate School
By Jan Howard
The Legislative Council on Wednesday unanimously approved a resolution for an appropriation of ...
Taunton Lane—
Tree Warden To Review Tree Removal Plans
 By Andrew Gorosko
In view of some Taunton Lane area residents’ misgivings about...
Breakfast With The Birds On June 19
The Lillinonah Audubon Society’s (LAS) annual Bird Breakfast event will be held at the Audubon Center at Bent of...
Trio’s Concert Series Continuing
NEW PRESTON — Trio di Camerati will present a concert at New Preston Congregational Church beginning at...
Growing The High School Smaller
Seven years ago, Newtown spent $20 million on a 70,000-square-foot addition to Newtown High School that was supposed to give the...
Shopping Center Incident
Police said they received a complaint about 10 pm June 1 that a small group of youths had gathered in the parking lot at Newtown S...
Discover What Is Hidden
In Plain View
WOODBURY — Woodbury Yoga Center will host a free Sunday evening program on June 6 with Vincent D’A...
Dr Spiro To Speak On Lyme Disease
WILTON — Psychiatrist Carolyn Spiro, MD, will address the Wilton Lyme Disease Support Group for adults at 7:30 pm ...
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).