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Town Remembers Mary Hawley On Her Birthday

By Alissa Silber

Published: Aug 30, 2017 12:00 AM

In celebration of what would have been Mary Hawley's 160th birthday, the Edmond Town Hall Board of Managers hosted an open house in the Mary Hawley Memorial Room of Edmond Town Hall on Tuesday, August 22.

Guests were encouraged to learn more about Newtown's generous benefactress, sign the guest book, and enjoy a spread of cookies and refreshments. In addition to having Miss Hawley's favorite flowers - red gladioli - on display, there were also copies of historical documents, like her will, for the public to read.

To learn more about the life of Mary Hawley, visit

edmondtownhall.org/history.

Edmond Town Hall Board of Managers Jennifer Chaudhary and her children Maya and Evan Chaudhary stood beside the portrait of Mary Hawley that is on display at the Edmond Town Hall on August 22. (Bee Photo, Silber)

The Mary Hawley Memorial Room is located on the main floor of the Edmond Town Hall. On August 22, the Edmond Town Hall Board of Managers hosted an open house In celebration of Mary Hawley's birthday. (Bee Photo, Silber)

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I am sorry but $88.8 million dollars to educate 4030 kids is way out of line! That's over $22k per kid, used to be $8k per kid, the kids aren't getting any smarter, the administration eats all the cost. Time to cut the budget by 20% and also cut the $225k salary of the superintendent and $193k of the superintendent assistant ! You can get a lot of teachers for $400k wasted for 2 overpaid positions. Common sense should tell you that spending $2.5 million per every week for population less than 30k people is just way too high! Also voting should be done by mail, enough with these nonsensical referendums where barely 16% of voters show up. 51% voters approval should be MANDATED!

Encouraging. The town budget squeaks by but the school budget got dinged. Let the games begin.

Who have you asked that didn't know where to cut? Its easy. Ideally, you would start with section 100 of the budget but the union prevents that. So I say you turn to page 18, put it on your dart board, and start reducing the head count. It's all you can do when the union controls the budget.

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The people have spoken, time to sharpen your pencils. If we look at the town budget for guidance the BOE should cut the budget from 4.4% to 2.75% I find the voting results very interesting ... We have approximately 4,030 students in our town, with a published 12:1 ratio which means we have 335 teachers. I would love to know the actual number if someone knows. If we account for their spouses that gets us very close to the number of people who voted yes for the budget and wished it would be higher (729).

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