City and school officials have come to an agreement to reappropriate a surplus $60,000 from the 2010-11 education budget to reinstate freshman sports in the 2011-12 school year .
The money was set to be returned to the city.
Mayor Mark Boughton and school finance director Elio Longo agreed Thursday that the $60,000 they identified while closing the year's accounts could be used for the program that serves about 260 freshmen each year.
The money needed to keep freshmen sports alive in Danbury was always available...hell, the fiscal year for 2010-11 school year ended IN JUNE.
It's a sham that the mayor, city council, and MOST IMPORTANTLY the Board of Education wasted parents time and energy as they worked tirelessly to raise the money needed to keep freshmen sports alive.
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On September 26, 2007, ten plaintiffs filed suit in response to an arrest of aday laborers at a public park in Danbury, Connecticut. Plaintiffs amended their complaint on November 26, 2007.
The amended complaint states that plaintiffs sought to remedy the continued discriminatory and unauthorized enforcement of federal immigration laws against the Latino residents of the City of Danbury by Danbury's mayor and its police department.
Plaintiffs allege that the arrests violated their Fourth Amendment rights and the Connecticut Constitution because defendants conducted the arrests without valid warrants, in the absence of exigent circumstances, and without probable cause to believe that plaintiffs were engaged in unlawful activity. In addition, plaintiffs allege that defendants improperly stopped, detained, investigated, searched and arrested plaintiffs. Plaintiffs also allege that defendants violated their Fourteenth Amendment rights when they intentionally targeted plaintiffs, and arrested and detained them on the basis of their race, ethnicity and perceived national origin. Plaintiffs raise First Amendment, Due Process and tort claims.
Plaintiffs request declaratory relief, damages and attorneys fees.
On September 26, 2007, ten plaintiffs filed suit in response to an arrest of aday laborers at a public park in Danbury, Connecticut. Plaintiffs amended their complaint on November 26, 2007.
