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A Little More in Killingworth

I’m told that our Board of Education cut Spanish and computer classes from our Killingworth Elementary School students this school year.

Page 12 of financial section of our last Annual Report states that the Unassigned Fund Balance line item as of June 30, 2014, had a balance of $4,012,058. Since that time, we have added to that account a few more hundred thousand dollars. These monies represent some of our town’s investments. We have handed these monies over to an investment firm to invest for us.

Read the most recent Connecticut Office of Policy Management Municipal Indexes report, and discover that Killingworth is 15th in median household income in the state, but 74th in net educational expenditure per pupil.

Maybe we should consider to invest a little less down in Wall Street, and a little more in Killingworth children. I believe that it can be proven that we will get a greater return on our investments by investing more in our children’s education than the return we will get from our Wall Street investments.

This is an election year, so we can have a say in our town’s future. I encourage your readers to ask questions, listen to their answers, and then vote their priorities.

Philip Stull

Killingworth