by | Oct 29, 2011 8:08 am | Comments (0)
The treasurer from Dan Foley’s mayoral campaign — ‘Foley for Mayor, 2011’ — has corrected an error in the campaign’s Oct. 3 campaign finance disclosure form.
Campaign treasurer Linda Fusco filed a corrected disclosure form with the state and came into the Valley Indy office in person Oct. 27 to point out the correction.
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by | Jun 13, 2011 9:51 pm | Comments (0)
The Derby Public School district has a $100,000 surplus for the current year.
The extra money was announced at the Board of Education meeting last week — minutes after the Board of Education voted to approve program and staff cuts for next fiscal year.
by | Jun 7, 2011 11:10 pm | Comments (0)
Derby Middle School will lose its security guard. Derby’s two elementary schools will each lose a para professional and part of a technology teacher. And the high school will lose a part-time gym teacher and money for athletics.
Those were among the cuts approved by the Derby Board of Education Tuesday, as it finalized its $15.4 million 2011 – 2012 budget.
by and | Jun 3, 2011 10:00 am | Comments (0)
School officials from Derby are requesting face time with their counterparts in Ansonia to see if they can save money by consolidating some school services.
There are no concrete plans for the two school districts yet. At this point the two districts haven’t even had a discussion.
Derby School Superintendent Stephen Tracy said he contacted Ansonia Superintendent Carol Merlone several weeks ago to let her know the concept was being tossed around in Derby.
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by | Jun 1, 2011 9:56 pm | Comments (0)
The Derby school board will have to reduce its requested budget by $485,894 in order to meet the $15.4 million allocated by the city’s tax board May 24.
To do that, the school board is considering eliminating another teaching position, eliminating a maintenance position, switching gym teachers to part-time, eliminating a security guard position from the middle school and cutting professional development.
by | May 30, 2011 9:31 pm | Comments (0)
The Derby school board is scheduled to meet June 1 to figure out what the changes to the school district’s health plan means to the 2011 – 2012 school budget.
Last Tuesday Mayor Anthony Staffieri announced that Derby would switch to a self-funding form of health insurance — and that the health benefits of Board of Education employees would now be a part of the city side of the annual budget. Click here to see Staffieri’s remarks to the tax board last week.
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by | May 25, 2011 12:36 pm | Comments (0)
Mayor Anthony Staffieri addressed the Derby Board of Apportionment and Taxation Tuesday, sharing his thoughts on the 2011 – 2012 budget.
He spoke for about 10 minutes. The majority of his remarks can be found in the two videos posted here.
Click here to read the Valley Indy story on the Derby budget, which was approved Tuesday.
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by | May 25, 2011 1:52 am | Comments (0)
Mayor Anthony Staffieri pulled a rabbit out of his budget hat Tuesday, announcing that Derby will be pooling city and school employee health care costs to create a self-funded health care plan that officials said could save Derby up to $1 million.
The projected savings was used to restore two jobs that were slated to be cut from the city budget and most likely fund the purchase of new police cars.
It also transferred roughly $3 million in health care costs from the school district to the city.
Continue reading ‘Staffieri Unveils Insurance Savings, Tax Board Approves Budget’
by | May 23, 2011 9:54 pm | Comments (0)
Fifteen people spoke during a public hearing on the proposed Derby budget Monday night, the majority of whom urged the tax board to allocate more money for the school district.
The tax board is considering a $35.5 million budget for the 2011 – 2012 fiscal year.
Continue reading ‘School Funding Dominates Derby Budget Hearing’
by | May 20, 2011 11:16 am | Comments (0)
The following is a look at the Derby budget, which includes all spending proposed by the city and the school district for the next fiscal year.
We’ll show what the budget will mean to your wallet, which city and school officials are getting raises — and the talking points that have been repeated by people in Derby who think the schools need more money and those who don’t.
