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Ethan 193 Fry | Oct 19, 2016 8:21 pm
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Ansonia Republicans are planning to meet behind closed doors Thursday night to talk about school funding, the Valley Indy has learned.
Members of the public will not be allowed to attend because it is a political caucus.
Republican officials said the caucus will include Republican members of the Board of Aldermen’s finance and education subcommittees, Republican members of the Board of Education, as well as Mayor David Cassetti and members of his administration.
Ansonia’s Board of Education met behind closed doors Wednesday to talk about a school donation form sent to city residents with this year’s tax bills.
Asked why the discussion had to exclude members of the public, school officials said they were protected by attorney-client privilege since they met with their lawyer.
But the city’s lawyer said that rationale doesn’t wash — and said the school board’s “executive session” was therefore illegal.
Ansonia Mayor David Cassetti hopes that in two years the land pictured above off Main Street will be redeveloped into a PetSmart store and a Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant.
But many things still have to fall in place to make the development a reality, including a land swap involving property owned by the mayor that was foreclosed on last year.
After reading a comment thread on the Valley Indy’s Facebook page under a post about Derby’s recently-adopted budget, tax board chairperson Judy Szewczyk emailed the document you see embedded below.
Valley Indy reporter Ethan Fry traveled to Hartford Wednesday with a simple theory — the public should not have to wait up to six months to read a report on whether a police shooting was justified.
In what probably won’t win the city any awards for promoting civic engagement, Ansonia officials plopped a noise machine on the floor in the hallway outside Aldermanic Chambers Tuesday.
Ansonia school officials spent about an hour Thursday (March 31) telling a committee of Aldermen that they need a nearly 7 percent increase in funding next year to avoid drastic cuts to staff and programs.
At the end of the meeting, the committee’s chairman, Second Ward Alderman Lorie Vaccaro, said that if they could, Aldermen would allocate a 10 percent increase for the school district.
Somebody call a copyright lawyer, ‘cause we invented a game!
It’s called the “FOI Game” and … OK, we have to work on the title. But the rules are carved in state law!
FOI stands for “Freedom of Information,” so, in honor of Sunshine Week, we invited Thomas Hennick onto “Navel Gazing,” our weekly talk show, to play.
Ansonia Republicans are planning to meet behind closed doors Thursday night to talk about school funding, the Valley Indy has learned.
The Derby Board of Education is again considering removing a barrier from hiring their relatives to work in the school district.
Ansonia’s Board of Education met behind closed doors Wednesday to talk about a school donation form sent to city residents with this year’s tax bills.
Ansonia Mayor David Cassetti hopes that in two years the land pictured above off Main Street will be redeveloped into a PetSmart store and a Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant.
Somebody call a copyright lawyer, 