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“In trying to make a case that Greenwich was the only municipality of its peer group to have zero growth in its YoY Board of Ed budget from FY2019-20 to FY2020-21, the authors did not include healthcare benefit costs as part of Greenwich’s BOE budget. This is important because Greenwich is the only town in Fairfield County that does not include its healthcare benefit costs in its education budget. All of its peer towns do. Hence, the added cost of healthcare benefits must be included in order to have an apples-to-apples comparison.” – Dan Quigley, RTC Chair Continue Reading →

“When you are informed not once, but twice, in advance of a meeting, that your motion is out of order, the real question to be asked is why you would not resubmit your request with a motion that would be considered “in order”. For example, motion to amend the budget would have been in order. But my colleagues did not do that. Instead they engaged in political grandstanding aimed to generate outrage, nothing more.” – Michael Mason, BET chairman Continue Reading →