Finance
New Fairfield finance board to address member’s controversial remarks about special education
NEW FAIRFIELD — The Board of Finance has scheduled a particular assembly Monday to debate remarks made by David Coleman that residents discovered insensitive and demeaning.
Residents will not be solely demanding the Republican finance board alternate publicly apologize for feedback he made in regards to the particular wants group in the course of the Board of Finance’s April 20 assembly, however calling for him to both be censured or resign.
Coleman — who was elected to the Board of Finance as an alternate again in November — has not been capable of be reached for remark.
Whereas speaking about rising particular schooling prices, Coleman mentioned he felt sorry for “any household who winds up in a state of affairs with a baby like that” — referring to households of particular schooling college students who go to residential amenities. He additionally made a comment that appeared to insinuate that particular schooling college students aren’t more likely to graduate.
A number of residents spoke out towards Coleman’s feedback throughout and after the April 20 assembly — together with mother or father and college board chair Dominic Cipollone, who referred to as the remarks “abhorrent” and “troubling.”
Because the April 20 assembly, Board of Finance Chair Wes Marsh instructed Hearst Connecticut Media that the board has acquired “a minimum of one or two” requests from residents asking for Coleman to make a public apology, and that he both be censured or resign.
Though Marsh mentioned the finance board would focus on the remarks in the course of the board’s subsequent common assembly afterward this month, a Might 9 particular assembly has been scheduled to debate the feedback Coleman made, in addition to “actions to take,” in keeping with the agenda.