North Canaan Residents read this with great interest…your local school budget is about to take a HUGE hit UPWARDS….and the rest of you Region One taxpayers will be effected by this as well.

Please read this report, and if you agree,  share it with all your friends. Action needs to be taken to correct this horrible decision by the All Boards Chairmen and The Region One Board Of Education.

In the video attached to this post you will watch the Region One Board Of Education grant additional retirement package to outgoing superintendent Patricia Chamberlain! With full endorsement from the All Boards Chairmen!

Region One taxpayers will have provided over $110,000 for a 403b retirement plan for the superintendent by the time she retires. Is the Regional School District No. One Board of Education so dense that it didn’t know that was a part of her employment package and that they had already provided plenty of money to her in the form of a retirement benefit by the time she retires in June of 2017?

Further she was also given two years of health insurance so she pays very little for that benefit and those two years will take her to Medicare eligibility. No other superintendent in the history of our regional school district has been given a severance and health insurance in retirement.

Teachers don’t get a handsome retirement annuity such as the superintendent. They do get a severance when they leave or retire, but only if they have served in the district in which they teach for 20 years. The superintendent’s district is the Regional School District No. One District and she has not worked for this district for 20 years.

In addition, Connecticut’s Education Committee is slashing the ECS for every school district in the State of Connecticut. ECS is Education Cost Sharing. Simply speaking, that means that every school in Connecticut and that means every school in Region One will be getting a cut of thousands of dollars to decrease the deficit. The question to ask your Region One Representative, and Region One All Board Chairmen…how can Region One afford an ADDITIONAL “retirement” package when coming down the pike is a cut of thousands of dollars to each school in their ECS? (North Canaan this will effect you most). In our calculations the less money for schools equals the mill rates for each town must increase to make up the loss. Did our Region One Board or A.B.C. even consider this? Please call your member and ask them, then demand action to take emergency action to cancel the first ever in Region One additional retirement package offered the Superintendent. Their email and telephone numbers are listed below.

Canaan (Falls Village)

Ms. Andrea Downs, Chair

Falls Village, CT

Phone: (860) 824-1070

Email: adowns@region1schools.org

Cornwall

Mr. John Sanders

West Cornwall, CT

Phone: (860) 672-0038

Email: jsanders@region1schools.org

Kent

Mr. Jonathan Moore, Secretary

Kent, CT

Phone: (860) 927-4580

Email: jmoore@region1schools.org

North Canaan

Mr. Edwin Gow, Treasurer

Canaan, CT

Phone: (860) 824-0195

Email: ngow@region1schools.org

Salisbury

Ms. Jennifer Weigel, Vice Chair

Lakeville, CT

Phone: (860) 435-9939

Email: jweigel@region1schools.org

Sharon

Mr. Bob Whelan

Sharon, CT

Phone: (860) 364-0452

Email: rwhelan@region1schools.org