Today: March 18, 2025
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MONROE, CT — Town Council Chairman Jonathan Formichella welcomed Rebecca O’Donnell at the special meeting of the council and the Board of Finance last Thursday. Read More …
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MONROE, CT — Members of the Board of Education’s Facilities Ad Hoc Committee went over six options to resolve the town’s school space needs amid growing student enrollment Wednesday night, before whittling the list down to two. Read More …
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MONROE, CT — Monroe has six old school buildings with outdated windows and doors, aging mechanicals and bathrooms that are not ADA compliant as a result. Read More …
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MONROE, CT — Board of Finance Chairman Michael Manjos has been involved in the town budget process for the last 13 years. Read More …
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MONROE, CT — Taxpayers will decide on a $104.1 million town budget proposal for fiscal year 2024-25 with a 1.91 percent increase in the tax rate when they go to the polls during the referendum at St. Read More …
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MONROE, CT — First Selectman Terry Rooney’s $1,187,000 reduction to the Board of Education budget’s rate of increase came at a time when both the school district and the town faced projections of soaring health insurance costs. Read More …
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MONROE, CT — Board of Finance Chairman Michael Manjos expects the town to have a challenging budget year amid the ending of grants, increases in school children, contractual obligations and a difficult insurance market. Read More …
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Steve Kirsch
Political Party: Democrat
Running for: Reelection to Board of Finance
Education: Syracuse University – Computer Science
Work experience: 44 years working for IBM and now its spinoff Kyndryl as an infrastructure and cloud architect. Read More …
MONROE, CT — Steve Kirsch, a Board of Finance member speaking for himself as a resident, used a public comment portion of Monday’s Town Council meeting to criticize how the Pepper Street reconstruction project is being carried out, contending that…
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MONROE, CT — Residents living on Garder Road and Applegate Lane have lived through the nightmare of blasting, rock crushing and heavy truck traffic in an area designated as a scenic road for much of the past two decades. Read…
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