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Referendum language being crafted to reverse budget vote
Grace Duffield
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The New Canaan Board of Education building on the corner of Forest Street and Locust Avenue. Picture was taken March 2021.Grace Duffield / Hearst Connecticut Media
Efforts are being made by opponents to earlier start times for grade school students to hold a referendum to overturn school start time changes.
Earlier grade school start times comes as a consequence of later start times for New Canaan High School students.
The referendum awaits the first step, having language crafted for “a notice of intent to petition,” which needs to be signed by at least 50 electors of the town to be filed in the town clerk’s office.
Town officials say they’ve hired a traffic engineer to review a plan to bump out sidewalks on Elm Street.
Michael Galante, director of traffic at Norwalk-based Hardesty & Hanover LLC, has been hired “to come out and take a look at Elm Street, review a bump-out plan for us, a sidewalk bump-out plan,” according to Public Works Director Tiger Mann.
“He is going to be doing a little bit of traffic study and a little bit of speed study on Elm Street, the main business section,” Mann told members of the Police Commission during their regular meeting, held March 17 via videoconference. “There was a request to have the speed limit dropped there, and then we’d like him to take a look at that. So he will be out there in the next couple of weeks to look at that and then we are hoping to come back to you in April with some findings.”
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