Mad Hatters IMC Preparing Second Annual
Community Art Auction
BETHEL — The Mad Hatters Independent Media Center (IMC) of Danbury will present its se...
Shirley Ann Wilson
Shirley Ann (Veccherelli) Wilson, 64, of Monroe, died on November 24 surrounded by her loving family and friends at St Vincent Medical Center...
Susan Washburn Joins Alpine Realty
Gary Gilroy, owner/broker of Alpine Realty in Newtown, welcomes Susan (Brachfeld) Washburn as a realtor and sales consultant ...
Mr and Mrs Anthony A. Guerrera
Elizabeth L. Bernstein and Anthony A. Guerrera were married on October 2 at The Waterview in Monroe with Father David Borino offi...
Newtown High School
Lists Scholarships
The Career Center publicizes all scholarships of which it is notified. A few of the scholarships, typically national one...
For police reports
Route 34 Crash
Police report a two-car accident at the intersection of Route 34 and Paugussett Road about 5 pm November 24.
Motorist Nin...
Hat City Theater Is Bringing ‘Hansel & Gretel’ To NHS
Hat City Music Theater will welcome vocalists from the Aspen Music Festival, Santa...
In Letter To Finance Board—
School Business Director
Defends His Actions
By Larissa Lytwyn
Board of Finance Chairman John Kortze received a letter f...
Dramatic Reading Of ‘A Christmas Carol’ On Saturday
WASHINGTON GREEN — On Saturday, December 4, at 3 pm, at Gunn Memorial Li...
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).