Pledge: President Keith
Prayer: Gerri Lewis
Song: Bill Mcl
Raffle: Bill O'S, Mike Velgouse, Peter Manley
Happy Bucks: Many & varied, for the students and the nice day, beautiful sunrise this morning
Flim/Flam: Joan Michaud
Guests: Rod Duxbury guest of Bill McL nice to have Rod with us this morning.
We begin an new school year with our Student of the Month program. This morning we had 3 students form our high schools representing the English Dept.
Westbrook High School; Aaron Damrau Aaron's mom was with him. Aaron is looking into R I T Computer Eng
Old Saybrook High School: Olivia DelGiudice Assist Principal Tara Winch, and English Dept. Sue Murphy along with Olivias mom and dad were with us.
Lyme/ Old Lyme High School: Justin Kegley Assist. Principal Tony Carrano was with us to talk about Justin and is prowess in writing. :
State Mailyn Marily Giulian spoke this morning about the budget issues in Connecticut. 41 % of the states income comes from the income tax and 2 % of the tax payers provide 43% of the revenue. Challenges Ct has lost 70,000 jobs since March 2008, 26,000 business have in the inthe past 2 years, Ct is dead last in job growth,no new additinal jobs have been added to Ct;s economy since 1989. Quinnipiac University Poll shows 60 % of the people choose to reduce services to reduce spending. This is an economic problem not a budget issue.
Budget passed late Aug, already shows a 1/2 billion dollar deficit We have real challenges, need for affodable housing, improved job market, and many others. we need to get involved.
