Many years ago The Town of Cromwell connected their Northeast section of town to the MDC in Hartford rather than building a pump station sending their waste water sewage to the Mattabassett. This way the district realizes no benefit financially from this area of town therefore, these homes involved should not be counted for the purpose of the census count resulting in a loss of the anticipated additional seat, to the District, for the town of Cromwell.
Additionally, The Town of Berlin as an unusual distinction with its Chamberlain Highway area with no sewers but all septic system tanks offering no revenue to the Mattabassett. The census count should not include for this vast area of Berlin possibly causing a loss of representation to the Mattbassett board of directors by one seat.
With the City of New Britain carrying the bigger load with its being 99% sewered.
The State Legislative leaders must realize that Chairman William Candelori's proposed plan for the district's representation is a "FARCE" and a careful review of the proposed plan must take place at our state capitol.
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and a felon shall lead them!
In the infamous words of "deep throat" follow the money!
How many teacher jobs could be saved with the $100 million Candelorion wants to spend for a fancy new crap plant?
What is wrong with these Democrats?
Teachers are being sacrificed for a fancy s**t plant????????
n the 1960s, when Connecticut and other states passed laws authorizing public sector bargaining, the focus was almost exclusively on the right to strike. In its wisdom, the General Assembly substituted binding arbitration, which in retrospect was a big mistake.
One solution would be to eliminate bargaining over these subjects. Federal employees have had unions and collective bargaining since the 1970s, but these issues are off the table. Another would be to give cities and towns veto power over arbitration awards. State government already has that right, but has only used it once, and that was almost 20 years ago. Requiring a legislative vote on each agreement would at least let taxpayers know who is responsible for its costs.
" Anonymous said...
n the 1960s, when Connecticut and other states passed laws authorizing public sector bargaining, the focus was almost exclusively on the right to strike. In its wisdom, the General Assembly substituted binding arbitration, which in retrospect was a big mistake."
Frank:
The commenter above knows exactly what hampers cities and towns in the state as well as the state itself from being able to balance budgets. Most of what has befallen CT and its towns are the bloated contracts of public employees - especially the education lobby. As long as the Democrats are in power in this state the burden will never go away. And nobody has the will to change it.
What do the unions say? Give us more money and things will change. In New Britain, what about our education reputation has changed over the past ten years? It has deteriorated! Test scores have declined while the education costs have skyrocketed. And you can't blame it all on Doris Kurtz! New Britain teachers are among the highest paid in the state as are our administrators. Yet what do they say is needed for improvement, more money! BALONEY! And guess what? Council Democrats in New Britain want to give it to them! To hell with the taxpayers!
It's time to pull the plug on these union, money grubbing bullies. Teachers in New Britain need only ten years to reach the top of the pay scale. Ridiculous!
There is no benefit to paying teachers more money.
Glenn Beck did an entire one hour show demonstrating that paying teachers more money had absolutely no connection to the quality of education: in fact the opposite seems to be true.
In a study of student performance across the country, the schools with the highest paid teachers also seemed to always have the lowest test scores, while the best performing schools also seemed to be in school systems with some of the lowest paid teachers in the country and also with the poorest equipment.
What seemed to make all the difference wasn't pay or benefits. It was the caring attitude and pride among the teachers at the poorest schools that transferred to the students. It goes without saying that the caring teachers in the poor schools were also non-union, so it seems that unions actually have a negative impact on the quality of education.
Get rid of the unions and you will improve teacher performance because the prevalent attitude among unionized teachers seems to be a "don't give a damn, I'll get paid the same whether I do anything or not" attitude while the underpaid, non-union teachers seem to care more for the welfare of their students than lining their own pockets.
Sadly, the smoke and mirrors of the recent hearing at the Mattabasseet over how many will represent each town has lost the real problem.
That is the 100 million dollar addition to the plant.
Was it a slight of hand by their chairman?
How many teachers will be sacrificed in order for New Britain to be able to cough up their $70 million share for the fancy schmancy new crap plant?
Is it safe to say that the council Democrats want to flush teacher jobs down the toilet?
Either way you are flushing your money down the toilet, at least with Candelori's way you get a sense of accomplishment!
or at least a feeling of relief!
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