The Hour leads today with a story about the rising costs of food, and the impact it will have on the school lunch programs. The other elephant in the room is the higher energy costs that will be a bigger hit. With no new finance person, or I should say, since the Norwalk Public Schools never had a real high level finance person, no financial operations planner, the impact in the next 5 years will be really significant.

Already the  BOE budget is suffocating the average tax payer in Norwalk, so it is of utmost importance that the BOE and Corda look to staff position that will plan and forecast rising costs and mitigate their ipact on the system.

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Stratford town officials are set to introduce an ordinance that would ban the hiring of close relatives of the town’s top officials. From the Connecticut Post:

If Town Council Chairman Mike Henrick has his way, the town will no longer be able to hire close relatives of the town’s top public officials.

Henrick, R-10, said he will introduce an “anti-nepotism” ordinance to the council when it meets at 8 p.m. today in Town Hall.

Henrick cited both a “very long history of nepotism in Stratford” that predates the present administration, as well as recent events, for drafting the ordinance.

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