Tuesday’s Norwalk Board of Education meeting on Zoom.
NORWALK, Conn. Surprise capital budget requests got their first public airing Tuesday as the Norwalk Board of Education reviewed its proposed $7 million renovation to the former Briggs High School and a hoped-for $46 million career and technical high school in four or five years.
Neither were mentioned last year or sprang from the much-ballyhooed feasibility study five years ago, but former Board Chairman Mike Barbis praised the Briggs plan, while slamming the efforts to build a new Norwalk High School.
“Norwalk High School’s taking money away from schools that really need it,” said Barbis, former Facilities Committee Chairman. “We don’t need to do Norwalk High School. We know it’s a whole political shenanigan.”
U.S. Rep. Jim Himes (D-Greenwich) speaks Tuesday at a Norwalk vigil organized by Democrats, while riding a train back to Washington D.C.
NORWALK, Conn. Messages of sadness, anger, frustration, and some small messages of hope were shared at a “DTC Vigil for Truth, Justice, and Unity” on Tuesday night.
“We thought that it was important to have something,” said Eloisa Melendez, chair of the Norwalk Democratic Town Committee. “Under different circumstances, we would all be together, figuring out a way to make sense of what happened last week, of what’s apparently to come in the next few days. And we just wanted to get this started – this conversation started.”
The BOE never ceases to amaze the residents of the city. How disgusting that Mike Barbis a DULY ELECTED MEMBER! As opposed to just hand picked replacement members is not on a committee again!!! So much for the BS unity and all the other garbage about it people like Sarah and BMM speak of. And now Colin we expected better from you. SHAMEFUL! And you set a horrible example!
A couple of questions:
1-What is the rationale for the BoE denying duly elected Board member Mike Barbis committee membership. Chair Hosten said his predecessors covered this but I don’t see that. Seems to me they are denying his district their representation. No problem with rebuking Mr, Barbis if they feel it is warranted but they are refusing his electors their right to representation.
Senate Democratic leaders Tuesday condemned the “alarmist” rhetoric of one of their GOP colleagues after a Facebook commenter made a threat of violence in response to a posting by Sen. Rob Sampson, R-Wolcott, asking his followers to “create public pressure” on Democrats to entertain changes to the police accountability law that passed last summer.
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