1. Introducing "Becky Budget"

    On April 9th, Kelly McCarthy and I introduced the Legislative Council and the audience attending the Council’s Board of Education budget hearing to “Becky Budget,” a child-sized bar graph showing the percentages we spend on various aspects of the Hamden public school system. Unfortunately, some people didn’t quite understand how to interpret her, so we put together a little letter and packet going into further detail as to what Becky means and what she can teach us. You can read the letter and download the packet on the next page.

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    Filed on 20 April 2008 by Aaron Gustafson

  2. Our suggestions to the Council on this year's budget

    Many of our members showed up at the Legislative Council meeting on March 24th to offer constructive criticism of the Mayor’s proposed budget. We’ve collected those comments here for you and for the Council as well.

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    Filed on 01 April 2008 by Aaron Gustafson

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