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Library’s proposed increase scaled back
PROSPECT — Members of the Public Library Board appeared before the Town Council Monday night to petition against Mayor Bob Chatfield’s recommended halving of the board’s proposed $8,170 increase to the library’s overall budget. Though the Library Board sought $252,132 for 2010-2011, from $243,962 in 2009-2010, the Town Council, per Chatfield’s recommendation, unanimously approved an... »
Mayor seeks 5 percent spending increase
PROSPECT — Mayor Bob Chatfield on Tuesday unveiled a proposed $6.9 million 2010-11 budget that would increase spending by 5 percent. The spending plan is an increase of $327,107 from the current year’s $6.6 million, Chatfield told Town Council members at Town Hall. Most of the increase is due to several factors including life insurance, Social... »
Social services agency asks borough for help
NAUGATUCK — The Human Resource Development Agency (HRD), a private, non-profit social services organization, has assisted borough residents for years at “no administrative charge to the borough,” according to Director Joanna Clisham. But in order to keep the doors open this year, Clisham says HRD needs approximately $20,000 in aid from the borough. The agency... »
Citizens to audit Board of Ed. budget
NAUGATUCK— Concerned borough taxpayers will soon have a new forum for monitoring the embattled Board of Education’s administrative practices. Anne Ciacciarella, founder of the 1,300-member Facebook group “Our Kids Come First,” has engaged Dr. Armand Fusco, a former school superintendant, veteran educator and author, to help form the borough’s first non-partisan Citizens’ Audit and Review... »
Impact of BOE situation far-reaching
NAUGATUCK — The common perception among teachers, parents and other taxpayers seems to be that the Board of Education’s projected $2 million budget deficit affects only school system itself. But the board’s latest cost-saving plan would bridge only $1.6 million of that shortfall—and the Borough of Naugatuck, already scrimped by a budget that did not... »
Teachers reject proposed concessions
NAUGATUCK — Mayor Bob Mezzo says teachers may have accepted a cost-savings plan worth about $570,000 if the school board had given them some incentive. “There is a give and take, and you don’t get anything without giving something,” he said. While teachers agree the negotiations weren’t handled well, union leaders say they are willing to... »
Halloween Village still scaring
NAUGATUCK — It was a classic debate of practicality versus sentimentality: The joint boards of mayor and burgesses and finance huddled around a rectangular conference table in Commissioners Corner, agonizing over whether, during the tightest budget year in recent memory, the borough could continue to fund the Parks and Recreation Department’s holiday villages. “I have... »
Teachers’ jobs could be safe
NAUGATUCK — The kids have spoken, and they’re not happy. On Monday night, when the picketing, marching and chanting before a Board of Education meeting lasted longer than the meeting itself, students criticized financial mismanagement that last year left the school system $1 million in the red and this year has given... »