Dear Editor,
I am pleased to announce that paperwork has been filed with the Secretary of State Office this week to create the New Canaan Taxpayers Association LLC (NCTA LLC).
Look for the NCTA LLC banner and informational table on Saturday, July 18 where a membership drive will commence.
A non-voting membership in NCTA LLC will be provided for $20 annually, and a voting membership will cost $40.
The purpose of the NCTA LLC is to create a collective lobbying voice for the taxpayers of New Canaan on state, federal and municipal legislative matters.
An election of a Board of Directors of the NCTA LLC is planned for late September.
Federal laws such as 18 U.S.C. 1346 (incorporated in the RICO Statutes) define the “rights” of citizens to be protected from schemes or artifices of public officials from abridgments of the “intangible right to honest services.”
For more than two decades, the Board of Education/New Canaan Public Schools administrators have failed to declare to both NC officials or State annual reports:
- Rental income of school properties
- Tuitions for a Pre-Kindergarten programs being conducted in the three elementary schools
- Income from “fees summer school programs” deposited into a “Summer Enrichment Fund.”
Last week, evidence was reported to New Canaan’s Audit Committee Chair, Bill Parrett, that 51 children of NCPS non-resident teachers were granted permission to attend the school system here at the cost of taxpayers in excess of $850,000.
BOE member Penny Rashin has been asked through a FOI request handed to her at the First Selectman meeting to produce all public records that allow the BOE/NCPS such a “benefit” to non-resident teachers.
NCPS employees/BOE are clearly also governed by the town of New Canaan Charter’s Section 17.1-17.8 Town Code of Conduct and Conflicts of Interest Ordinance.
Rob Mallozzi, as first selectman, has repeatedly refused to perform his fiduciary duty defined in the Town Charter to enforce such ordinances uniformly on all town employees, appointed and elected public officials.
Join us on Saturday to register as a member of the NCTA LLC or email mnowacki@aol.com for a registration form and mailing instructions for membership.
Michael Nowacki
319 Lost District Drive
Get lost.
Allowing the children of non-resident teachers to attend the schools where their parents teach is a benefit which enables the town to attract stronger talent. These teachers are a key ingredient to New Canaan’s success in having a top rated school system; a benefit which greatly outweighs the cost. And with more than 4,100 students enrolled in New Canaan’s public schools, the cost for an additional 51 students is de minimis; especially when factoring in the true incremental cost which is far less than the amount suggested.
To target teachers seems misguided.
(Is there an agenda here?)
We want teachers who have “skin in the game”. Having teachers’ kids attend our schools is an additional way to ensure that teachers are providing their best.
How can we recruit the best to teach our kids but turn around and tell those same teachers that they can’t teach their own?