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Newtown budget with extra school security rejected
WTNH Television ^ | 04/24/2013

Posted on 04/24/2013 5:52:57 AM PDT by Puppage

NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Newtown residents have rejected a budget that included money for extra school security in the wake of the December school shootings.

Voters turned down the $72 million school budget by 482 votes and rejected the $39 million town government budget by 62 votes Tuesday. Nearly 4,500 residents voted on the plans, which would have increased spending by 4.7 percent next fiscal year.

Officials put an extra $1 million in the school and town budgets to hire extra police officers and unarmed security guards to put in each of Newtown's seven schools. The plan was spurred by the shootings that killed 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

First Selectwoman Patricia Llodra says she's not sure what message voters were sending. She says officials will revise the budget.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; secondamendment
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To: Puppage

We should all have a cold one together sometime! Newtown Conservatives and gun owners need to get better organized...


21 posted on 04/25/2013 6:35:31 AM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back The Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: DTogo

I am in. Are you in Newtown?


22 posted on 04/25/2013 6:43:45 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Third Person

I agree. I think that is what the voters were saying


23 posted on 04/25/2013 6:46:15 AM PDT by ncpatriot
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To: Puppage

Yes, FReepmail me when you think you’ll be in town.


24 posted on 04/25/2013 7:07:24 AM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back The Sons of Liberty !!)
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