March 4, 2010

Schools seek $1.8 million more next year

The Board of Education is seeking another $1.8 million for the coming year in order to keep the school system operating as it is, minus Bingham School. For details, see today's Press story and yesterday's story in the Hartford Courant.
There overall city budget picture remains bleak, with revenues well short of the money needed to keep everything humming along as it has been.
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11 comments:

Anonymous said...

I thought the directive was to come in with a zero increase? Now someone else has to cut this budget. What are we paying the senior managers of Bristol Ed their big salaries for? Bristol is broke and our citizens can not afford a tax hike in this economy. Enough already.

Anonymous said...

LAYOFFS NO MORE MONEY. START THE LAYOFFS. Schools are cutting it anyway with no real management in place. Just a guy we call dr who wants money. Well i want to keep my house i cant afford more so lets start the cuts.

Anonymous said...

closing bingham will save 1 million his words now he is asking for more? let's get rid of phil as soon as possible

Anonymous said...

this guy needs to go . no waiting. Whats the matter weith city leaders no balls to make cuts. Next election plenty of cuts coming.

Anonymous said...

Get rid of Obrien,Doc Phil.

Anonymous said...

11:08

Ward won't let him.

Anonymous said...

no layoffs fire them all and start over. this school system sucks with all the overpaid useless staff.

Anonymous said...

Fire them and have them reaply and put salary caps in. Screw the union its our turn .

Anonymous said...

The school system is a joke a bunch of over the hill teachers not much smarter then the students. Making big money lets make cuts and start with phil.

Anonymous said...

The city just changed the health insurance for union workers saving one million dollars. Now, the school board wants 1.8 million dollars extra for next years budget. So much for saving money. All of the departments were told to hold the line, how is this holding the line?

Anonymous said...

6:14

The city isn't saving a million dollars dispite what Klocko says.

And, did other departments come in at zero or less?