Government & Politics
RTM Budget Meeting 05-10-17

Volunteers Needed to Help Run This Town: Apply Here to Join the Representative Town Meeting

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Candidates are being sought for empty seats on Darien’s Representative Town Meeting, which meets less than a dozen times a year and is the town’s ultimate legislative body. — an announcement from the RTM

The following RTM Districts have vacancies. If you are interested in serving, please contact the respective District Chair for information on upcoming caucuses to choose new members. By district, here are the number of vacancies and the district chair who you can contact if you’re interested in filling one:

District 1 two Brad Pattelli brad@pattelli.com
District 2 one Nina Miller pokebox@aol.com
District 3 two — Lisa Yarnell yarnell.lisa@gmail.com
District 4 four Brian Rayhill brianrayhill@gmail.com
District 5 four Mac Patrick jmprtm@gmail.com
District 6 one Caroline Luz — luzfamily@gmail.com

If you’re unsure which district you live in, this information from the town government website should help:

Where do I vote – quick lookup
Redistricting Map  
Alphabetical Street Listing for Polling Locations  

District 1              District 4  

District 2              District 5  

District 3              District 6  

Google Map of Polling Locations and Addresses

Education
Town Hall

RTM to Vote Monday on Teachers Union Contract — the Biggest Part of the Town’s Next Three Budgets

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Two Representative Town Meeting committees have each voted to recommend that the full RTM, when it meets Monday night, approve the teachers union contract. The proposed three-year Darien teachers union contract will be the single largest expenditure made by the town — not just for the coming fiscal year, but for the two that follow it, as well. Once the RTM vote is taken, that expenditure of tens of millions of dollars a year will be locked in, essentially, unavailable for either the Board of Education or RTM to change for three years. Most of the town’s education spending is on teacher’s salaries, and town education spending is close to 70 percent of the entire town budget. The RTM’s vote will be the final one, putting the contract into effect starting July 1 and ending June 30, 2020. 

Top school administrators and several members of the Board of Education answered questions about the contract on Tuesday at a joint meeting of the RTM’s Education Committee and Finance & Budget Committee.