This is a monthly reminder. Knowing Newport looks forward to sharing and discussing your ideas. There are now 211 (as of 5/4/2005) subscribers to the Knowing...
KnowingNewport@yahoog...
Jun 1, 2005 2:14 pm
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Please attend this important forum. If you can't, e-mail your comments to me at comments <AT> OurNewportSchools.org and I will forward to the consultants. Mike...
Newport council orders budget cut of $1M By Sean Flynn/Daily News staff http://www.newportdailynews.com/articles/2005/06/02/news/news5.txt City Council members...
Newport council orders budget cut of $1M Newport Daily News - Newport,RI,USA By Sean Flynn/Daily News staff. ... Pop Warner Football, the Artillery Company of...
I'd start with a temporary hiring freeze to demonstrate how serious the City's financial problems REALLY are. This will help open up the co-pay and pension...
John McCain
jmcc@...
Jun 4, 2005 3:27 am
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Some months ago, I asked a City Department head how she defines quality of life...her response is "It is the place where I look forward to living." Looking...
I called 911 last week becuase there was a couch on the bridge at dusk Thursday,and got connected to the Newport police who said the state police were covering...
Rowena Burke
rowenadunlap@...
Jun 4, 2005 3:56 am
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A similar effort like the berkshire report should be done for the police and fire to measure if the both dept are giving the city the best bang for the buck....
Cut out all residents who moved to town in the last 10-15 years from the perfect enclaves they originally hail from, who came to rescue Newporters from...
With all due respect Herk, my kids' education will not pay the price for progress.... re: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KnowingNewport/message/1185 I am not...
Mike, Not to be a fly in the ointment, but just a small reminder: re: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KnowingNewport/message/1183 Cuts like this are part of the...
Why $1 million? What's the derivation of that figure? Why not $1.5 million or $500,000? My suggestions would include, as Council member Charlie Duncan voted,...
Burt Hoffman
burthoffman@...
Jun 5, 2005 7:04 pm
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Just a note to the posting regarding the Newport Police Department's response to emergencies on the Newport (Pell) Bridge. The moderator is right, the ONLY...
The following KnowingNewport poll is now closed. Here are the final results: POLL QUESTION: Should the Newport School Committee close an elementary school...
I investigated the couch incident and found that the Bridge Authority was immediately notified of the couch on the bridge, they usually have a truck with...
down with polls the school committee who, number are half of the people who took the time to vote is split 4-3 which is 57 % not to close a school. So much...
Any manager, when asked do you have enough people, space and materials will never say yes. The last report in 2002 cited a current operating capacity for our...
Good thinking Burt, but about the admin/triplett complex. The school committee has to get the idea of being a realty entity and do what they were elected to...
The Maximum savings of closing a school is $250,000 and that is if the City spends ZERO dollars on heating or cleaning the building in 2005/2006 season. re:...
Louisa Boatwright
louisa.boatwright@...
Jun 6, 2005 1:37 pm
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What you may not realize is that police details performed at construction and utility projects do NOT cost the city any overtime. re:...
I keep thinking that people, brainwashed by the management-inept school committee, focus on the school budget as a self standing operation separate from any...
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the KnowingNewport group. File : /School...
KnowingNewport@yahoog...
Jun 6, 2005 5:48 pm
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Elementary Cost Savings based on 2004-2005 Expenses see spreadsheet at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KnowingNewport/files/Lib/...
Smith,James
JSmith@...
Jun 6, 2005 5:52 pm
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I don't care if we only save $100 by shutting a school. If we don't need it, why keep it? None of the school buildings I attended in Newport -- Coddington, ...
Burt Hoffman
burthoffman@...
Jun 6, 2005 5:54 pm
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Vic Farmer is correct. see: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KnowingNewport/message/1200 The School Department has seldom been right about any financial...
Vic Farmer is absolutely correct...Kate Leonard...
kateleonar@...
Jun 7, 2005 11:54 am
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I wish to respond to the Moderator's Comments appended to my troll and clarify my statement. First off the Subject title was changed by the moderator to read...
Let me see if I got this right. For these details the city doesn't pay for the overtime, and the city gets 15 dollars for every hour of details worked. I do...
In a message dated 6/7/2005, markdatum@... writes: I do have some other questions: Who is paying the cost of the detail? Is the cost that of the rank...
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