New Canaan School budget reduction erodes "culture of trust" Grace Duffield FacebookTwitterEmail New Canaan High School in 2019.Grace Duffield / Hearst Connecticut Media All nine Board of Education members have signed a letter speaking out against the $3.1 million that the Board of Finance removed from its budget. The letter requests that Town Council work with the Board of Finance to accelerate the timing of a special appropriation or rework the BOF’s amended version of the Board of Education budget. The changes to the budget “erodes a long-standing culture of trust and respect between our boards and is a departure from collaborative governance processes of years past,” the letter signed by the school board members reads.