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[email protected] Friday, May 15, 2009 THIS WEEK’S NECCOG QUOTE Budget moves to referendum ‘The best thing about $400K ADDED BACK TO SCHOOL NUMBERS proposes the future is that it BY MATT SANDERSON tions of teaching positions. be held from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. next comes one day at a VILLAGER STAFF WRITER After emotional testimony from Tuesday, May 19, at all of the five time.’ KILLINGLY — The annual town parents, and a back-and-forth district polling locations. regional meeting at the high school Monday debate between the audience and The Board of Education made night, May 11, was an eye-opener the moderator, the public voted to the cuts to its $33.9 million budget for some taxpayers and parents put $400,000 back into the Board of after the Town Council directed who had not yet heard of the mag- Education’s budget. members to eliminate more than $1 revaluations INSIDE nitude of the Board of Education’s Now taxpayers will be able to million after the initial budget pro- cuts to its 2009-’10 budget, which participate in a machine vote for BY MATT SANDERSON A8-9 — OPINION VILLAGER STAFF WRITER included more than 12 elimina- the budget referendum, which will Turn To XXXX, page A10 A7 — SPORTS A combined bill is currently B1 — HOT SPOT being debated in the state’s House of Representatives to delay the B5-6 — OBITS implementation of recent property B6 — RELIGION revaluations, or the phase-in of a property,until 2011.