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Norwalk: Council Finance Commitee Can’t Add


by turfgrrl


April 13th, 2007 · 9 Comments

Strangely, after Thomas Vetter “found” 2 million in cuts. Corda mounted a new offensive in the Common Council Finance committee. After a heated, but without discussion of the real numbers, debate, the committee of 3 Norwalk-outers, Miklave, Briggs, and Sutton and Hilliard voted to ad $2.8 million to the cap. Hempstead and Straniti voted against.
This move might be mostly theater, something that the outers were denied on Tuesday and likely will be the last bit last night. The first hurdle will be the BET, which is where any extra cap money would be allocated. At this point the BET had come in with a budget under the present cap, so it is not likely they will rework the budget.

The next step would be to convince the Mayor to call for a special meeting. And that is not likely either. The motion would need 10 council members to show up and vote for it, and with vacations already planned, it doesn’t seem likely that it would happen.

source: The Advocate, $2.8M hike in school spending gets green light, By Matt Breslow, April 13 2007

Tags: In the News · Local · Norwalk

9 Responses so far ↓ “Norwalk: Council Finance Commitee Can’t Add”



  • 1 Debate Must Stop Knopp // Apr 13, 2007 at 8:00 am

    I read knopps letter today. Unfortunately also served on the council during that time. What a hypocrite. Whilst he was mayor he stifled and bullied and stopped debate. The budget process was conducted behind closed doors in and the budget was decided without one iota of council input. Just like he stopped debate on the youth services council project that many of us were working on.

  • 2 Wiki - about Norwalk Schools // Apr 13, 2007 at 11:35 am

    From the wikipedia . org talking about Sal’s lack of accomplishment.

    Education
    Main article: Education in Norwalk, Connecticut
    The current Superintendent (education) of Norwalk Public Schools is Dr. Sal Corda.

    The public school system has three high schools, each covering Grades 9 through 12: The oldest, Norwalk High School (founded in 1902) is the home of the Norwalk Bears. Brien McMahon High School (founded in 1960) is named for U.S. Senator Brien McMahon. The third is Briggs High School.

    The city has four middle schools, for grades 6-8: West Rocks Middle School and Nathan Hale Middle School, which feed into Norwalk High School, and Roton Middle School and Ponus Ridge Middle School, which feed into Brien McMahon High School.

    There are twelve elementary schools in Norwalk: Brookside, Columbus Magnet, Cranbury, Fox Run, Jefferson, Kendall, Marvin, Naramake, Rowayton, Silvermine, Tracey, and Wolfpit. One charter school, Side by Side Community School, is located in South Norwalk.

    In 2006, three of the city’s four middle schools and nine of its 12 elementary schools, along with a “community school” were cited as falling behind in standards for the federal “No Child Left Behind” Act.

    Three elementary schools had not met the standards for two years in a row, so students in those schools are offered the choice to go to a Norwalk public school that hasn’t been designated as needing improvement.

  • 3 anonymous // Apr 13, 2007 at 1:03 pm

    I live in Wallingford. Last night superintendent Wilson came back to the board and said that mayor Dickinson’s 2.5 million cut wasn’t all doable but he came back with transportation costs, 400k and others to show he was able to compromise. What a difference from Corda here.

  • 4 Kathi Bo // Apr 13, 2007 at 4:31 pm

    Can someone tell me where the $2 million Vetter found went? You don’t need to have a degree in finance to realize that there is something very wrong here. What is it going to take to bring this to light and have something done? Any ideas,please let me know.

  • 5 indythinker // Apr 13, 2007 at 5:32 pm

    Another grandstanding effort by Norwalk Democrats to undermine all the hard work the BET, Hamilton and the council have put into saving $$$. This is disgusting. They didn’t get their way on Tuesday so they ambushed the only smart people on the finance committee (Hempstead and Straniti) what a shame! I see they recruited one more to their little takeover. Hilliard should be ashaqmed of himself for going with them. Up til now he has been a voice of reason on the dem side and now just when you think the battle is won it starts again.n Hey council, stick to your guns and don’t do it! We’re counting on you!

  • 6 anonymous // Apr 13, 2007 at 6:07 pm

    What amazes me is how this small group can be controlled by Mr. Miklave. How is it that they can’t see through his obvious self-serving charades?

  • 7 anonymous // Apr 13, 2007 at 6:15 pm

    These people think that they will get re-elected in November? All the granstanding in the world won’t help. They have proven to us, the taxpayers that all they care about is politics and taking over this town.
    It won’t work this time, if you think you are Norwalk outers now, wait til November. You’re outta here!

  • 8 anonymous // Apr 13, 2007 at 6:29 pm

    Reality Check: Sutton, Hilliard, Bolden, Briggs, Bondi will be back in November. Coffey, Grant, Poruban, Miklave, Krummel won’t be for a variety of reasons having to do with

    age,
    stupidity of Dems,
    stupidity of candidate,
    primary challenge,
    and republican pickup.

    I don’t want to get in trouble here, so I’ll leave it to you to match who is who.

  • 9 anonymous // Apr 13, 2007 at 6:42 pm

    RE: Reality Check: Sutton, Hilliard, Bolden, Briggs, Bondi will be back in November. Coffey, Grant, Poruban, Miklave, Krummel won’t be for a variety of reasons having to do with

    I doubt that Bolden will be back as well as coffey and Grant or even Fred Bondi. They will not get the nod from the DTC to even run. Briggs is never coming back one would hope since all she does is rubber stamp anything the dems tell her to. She can’t think on her own. Poruban will not get elected, he can’t run on a Re-Elect platform because he lost the election and was only appointed when Ms Sawyer resingned and moved away. Anyone take notice that all of this back stabbing started right around the time Poruban got back on? Sutton is a maybe and Krummel just needs to go! The Republicans will pick up seats this time because they have listened to the taxpayers for most part. Well some of them anyway, Kydes seems to be in this for himself and spends far too much time trying to make Miklave look bad, why bother? he does a good enough job all by himself. I sure hope we get some good candidates this time. This circus has got to end!